My plan for 2008

by Sapphire (January 7, 2008)

I’ve mapped out my goals for 2008, and they are huge. I had been planning to build more article reprint sites, but instead I’m revamping the ones I have into original content sites. This’ll be tough - they’re on a range of topics I’m not terribly familiar with. But I know how to research and link and use “may” and “tend to” to avoid stating something that’s categorically false or stupid. I can do this.

I’ve decided I need two things to make my sites perform like I want: more traffic, more inbounds, more pages. For the first two, I’ll be buying ads and networking by linking out to others - I swear, that works better than anything else I’ve tried, particularly if you link to other small sites instead of the big boys who will never notice you. For the last, that means a lot of writing. I’d like several of my blogs to have 1,000 posts by the end of this year. To achieve this, I have an insane schedule I probably can’t meet:

Project Mai Tai needs 19 posts/week until August. Two other blogs need 19 posts each until November. ChillyCool is going to get an average of one post a day, and I’m not doing the Del.icio.us posts anymore - Google doesn’t rank them, plus I can’t future-date them - I’ll be doing straight up link posts. This site will continue to get posts when I have something to say (am not going to clutter it with crap just to boost my post numbers).

Why am I setting a goal I can’t reach? Usually, I set smaller goals and don’t reach them, and then I get really depressed. If I set a goal I’m acknowledging is lofty, I can’t be too upset about not reaching it. And maybe I’ll actually get somewhere near it.

I’m thinking of the construction industry. Construction jobs take years. From the start, your scheduling is done over months and years, and jobs almost always stretch beyond the time you hoped they’d get done. No one expects the schedule to be met in the end, but by the time the original deadline comes around, you should be close to finished and already seeing some results.

Posted in Staying on Track
Subscribe to the feed or email updates