Here is a post I made on my blog a while back, hopefully Members here can find it useful. Setting Goals For Web Traffic And AdSense A lot of this might sound simple, or common sense, but setting goals is one of the most important things you can do in any variety of things. When it comes to Web Traffic, AdSense, anything really, I always start off with a goal. Once you reach that goal, raise the bar and push just as hard, if not harder. Don’t forget to celebrate once its achieved. By doing so you create more motivation to keep going and succeed In further projects or progressions on your same target. I started doing this with my website traffic. For the first year, I had a target of 25,000 page views. It was very hard at first, but i achieved it. I then raised the bar to 50,000 for the next year. I totally surpassed that and got up to 100,000. I thought to myself, hey I can really push my self on this one, so I set a goal of 1,000,000 page views for year three. Since January 07 to present I am right around the 1,850,000 pageview mark. This is all thanks to setting strong goals and sticking with them. Here is a simple way to break down goals. Long Term Goals Long Term Goals should be thought of as an overall scope of what you are trying to accomplish for the future. For example, this year I had a long term goal of getting 1,000,000 page views. Next year is for 3,000,000. Short Term Goals Short term goals should have the long term goal in mind, but break it down a little more. So for my long term goal I had a goal of 1,000,000 page views. But my short term goal was to get 50,000 pageviews a week. By setting short term goals, you enable yourself to focus on the little things that give it that push to the next level. Without short term goals you would have a struggle and possibly not stay motivated. Another short term goal was to get 10,000-12,000 page views a day. No if you do the math, my first short term goal of getting 10,000-12,000 visitors a day, even on the low end would be 70,000 visitors. I only had a goal of 50,000 visitors a week on my short term, so by striving for tha 10-12k a day it makes it easier for me to achieve the goal. The Power Is In The Short Term Now if I am achieving that goal of 10,000 - 12,000 visitors a day and I get about 70,000 visitors a week, that will easily make my long term goal possible. So all the power is on the short term. If you stay focused, you can make it happen. How To Determine Your Goals What works best for me, its to get relaxed, pen and paper and jot down the strong points of my website, the weaker points and then go from there. I determine this by looking into my Analytic Data from Google Analytics, WebTrends, HitBox whatever you use. I look it over, and take a goal that I want to achieve and times it by three. Seriously, setting a goal higher than you think you can handle it a great thing to do because it will keep you working to make it possible. Once you get your long term goal, break it down into smaller goals e.g relating to my short term goal explanation, make it so your short terms can only improve your longterm. For instance, If a weaker point of my website was only attracting 10,000 visitors a week, I could set a long term goal of getting 300,000 visitors a year, but my long term goal could be to get 2,000-3,000 visitors a day. By doing that I can average about 18,000 visitors a week and easily get over 1,000,000 visitors. Adding AdSense Into The Mix By taking these same web goals and translating them into AdSense, you can seriously start to make some decent money. If your goals are as fine tuned, and as specific and motivated, you honestly can generate good revenue. Starting out, like anyone else I was making $0.00 - <$1.00 a day with AdSense. I then started to formulate short term and long term goals. Im no master at AdSense yet, but my goals are steadily being able to be raised, and Im continuing to make a nice profit off my websites. AdSense - Start Small. I took that $0.00 - <$1.00 a day, and thought to my self, hey I really need to improve that, what could I do? first thing I said, ws I need more content for one of my sites. So I set goal of writing three articles a week to improve my content selection. I then set a goal to improve my earnings to $0.75 - $1.50 a day with AdSense, this woud only be possible by generating those content pages in my previous goal. So you see, all goals build up on one another. I really hope this helps anyone who is interested in How To Set A Goal. Comments are welcome, hopefully there are some success stories as well. -------------------------- I hope this helps. I have more posts at my blog http://www.timothyallard.com/blog -Tim
Good post. It motivates me to actually sit down and set concrete goals to work towards. Do you have any advice on actually setting up goals in Google Analytics (i.e. Getting Users to Subscribe to your Blog) that would be useful to bloggers?
Thx a lot dude! I am one of those whos earnings are 00$-01$ per day,and despite the fact that I knew what I have to do, your post gave me an extra motivation. Thanks agin Regards Sinn
Im glad people can find this useful. I will be posting an update and more goal related exercises within the week. Stay tuned. Thanks! -Tim
now this is something i want to see on DP instead of copied and pasted content but noobs good job, +rep and i'm curious as to since its been 2 years, there are a lot more blogs because more people know blogs can make money. So i'm assuming the work required is even more due to compeition?
Sorry for the very late replay on this, thank you for the +rep. but yes, as with anything the more competition, the harder one must work. It wasnt to much more work per say, it was being more creative to retain and attract new visitors as the blogging world got very dense in content. Im glad people like the post!
@Timallard: Great post.....this should motivate everyone here who is struggling or frustrated with adsense. Moreover, if you have your goals set, it becomes more easy to chase it.