How To Set Up Free Blogging Goals

Before you start building your free blog, you should first set up your goal; what you want to benefit from the blog in the future.

Most bloggers fail when it comes to making success in blogging, if you have done this before, you know what I am saying, or you have heard it severally that making success in blogging is not quite friendly.

But I’ve discovered something just about that; before you will say you didn’t succeed in blogging, there must have been a goal that you didn’t accomplish, otherwise, you haven’t failed, at least not yet.

Some people start blogging without setting there blogging goals, and after many years of blogging and not earning anything from the blog, they start thinking that they have failed. No, they haven’t failed, they are still in the process.

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Let me clarify my point even further;

If you start a blog with the intention of making money online, now, you didn’t specify the month of which you want to start making money, so even if you blog for twenty years without making a dime, you haven’t failed, because you can still make money after that time.

But if you start a blog with the intention of making $200 with it in 4 months time, and earn only $199 in 4 months, then you’ve failed because you didn’t meet up the target.

What is failure in blogging?

Failure in blogging is when you didn’t meet up with your plan for a particular period of time.

So that’s why it is crucial to set up your blogging goal before making any step further.

I have told many new bloggers about this and they come up with questions like;

How do you set goals in blogging?

What is the goal of a blog?

How can I make my blog profitable?

If you have been asking yourself any of these questions, or you just saw it and want to find an answer to it, then I will advise you to read this article to the end, because I have provided all the information about them.

how to set up your blogging goals.

I believe you now know the importance of setting your blogging goals, if you set up your blogging goals, you will be able to know where you are heading to, what to do and what to avoid. Follow the below instructions to set up your blogging goals.

Understand your audience

Understanding your audience is one of the most important thing in blogging, because when you build your blog, you want to gain readers, you want hundreds, thousands and if not millions of people to be reading your blog everyday.

And the only true way you can acquire that is by providing good information on your blog in order for people to come to your blog and read them.

Now, if you don’t know what your audience want, it will be difficult for you to come up with good contents that they will love.

Whether you want to make money, have your word heard out there or you want to increase your brand awareness, the thing you need is quality contents and audience.

How to understand your audience

use keyword research

use keyword research tools to find out how people are searching for a particular key phrase on the internet. There are free tools and paid tools out there that you can use,

for this example, I will use ubersuggest, a free keyword research tool.

if your blogging niche is "basket ball", you can log on to ubersuggest.com and type in your keyword and hit search.

You can see how many people in average are searching for this term, about 800,000 people, which means, it can bring you a lot of readers if you blog in this topic.

Now if you scroll down to the end, you'll see more of the things that this people are interested in,

you can see terms like “basket ball shoes” “basket ball hall” and etc, now each of this term can be used to track what these audience are expecting to get from you.

To further niche down to know another specific thing that these audience wants, you can pick any of the term and search them separately, for this example I choose basket ball shoes,

And after searching that, you will then get another page of other things that this audience are expecting to get from you if you blog in this topic.

Use google search engine

Google search engine is one of the many platforms you can use to find what your audience are expecting to get from you as a blogger. And I am going to show you how to use it to find what your audience want you to be blogging about.

Method 1.

Go to google and type in your keyphrase, lets say you're blogging in the basket ball niche, you can search for this term, results will come up in the SERP, read the first and the second or even the third result.

Try to understand what that result is trying to offer to people, if you find out that, the page is about teaching people how to start playing basket ball, that means, that is what the audience are looking for.

Method 2.

Search for the same term again, scroll down and find the “people also search box” you will see a variety of questions that people have been searching for in google, that is what people are expecting to get when they search for basket ball.

Use Q and A forums

This method is very effective, if you want to know what your audience are looking for, one of the most effective way to find out is by checking out question and answer forums.

In this example I am going to use Quora, one of the biggest Q and A forum. If you don’t use Quora as a blogger, I urge you to create an account right now.

After signing up as a member in Quora, you will have access to different topics, all you need to do is join the topics that matches your blog niche, lets say it is basket ball, there are many groups about basket ball, join them all.

And after you’ve joined them, you can visit any of those groups and locate the “questions” tab just below the group picture, 

then you'll see questions asked my the members, when you see these kind of questions, you know that since someone is asking this kind of questions, that means there are other people asking this same question too.

Set up your blogging goals

After understanding your audience, now is the time to start setting up your goals, do you want to earn money from them? Do you want them to know about your business? Or do you want to have access to their emails so that you can keep them updated about your business?

After knowing what they want, you will then develop a sense of how to get what you want from them by giving them what they want from you.

And one thing you must do is, as you are setting your blogging goal, you should also set the time that you want to start seeing effect.

Remember that, if you don’t set a time for your blogging plan, you won’t be able to know if you’re performing well or not.

Here is an example.

The above is the most basic blogging goal template, I am currently using it for all of my blog, although there are other more professional ways to set up your blogging plan, but trust me, 

this template works just fine. You can download it to your computer and print it or share it with your friends.

below is the plain form that you can download and use for free or share with your friends.

you can download this template and use it, it is free!

Conclusion

I have been blogging for the past 3 years now, I have built more than 20 blogs, but none of them are alive to see a day like this, but everything changed when I start setting up my blogging goals,

So whether you're new to blogging or have been failing to succeed, I believe this tactic will help you out.

If you have any questions or anything to say, please leave it in the comments section.

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Good luck!