Over the past year I’ve seen many start blogs, and give up after a couple of months, if not weeks, because of the lack of daily visitors and traffic streaming through the tubes.

My advice for the first 6 months of running your blog, is to forget about the readership statistics, and focus on creating and posting stacks of quality content to help build up your archives.

This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t set goals, if you haven’t already, now’s the time to set some goals and be prepared to review them at the end of the year.

To begin this process, goal setting is in order. I personally like to set goals at the start of every year, and look them over each month to track current progress. Whatever date you read this post, make it a task to check over them each month for the next 12 months - the goals you will be setting are over a one year period.

Here are a few goals you should set, along with a few of your own.

  • Posts Made
  • RSS Readers
  • Daily Page Views
  • Technorati Rank
  • Blog Comments
  • New relationships made

    • Set a value for each of these goals, and make a comment on this article so you have a little push and drive to achieve these goals. In 12 months time, I’ll follow up to this article so you can see if you achieved your goals.

    Goals are important. Without goals you are just going with the flow, with goals, you have something to work towards, something lying up ahead in the future to aim at.

    What are your blogging goals for this year?