My Blogging Resolution for 2008
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I have reminded all my readers to write out and post your blogging resolution for Year 2008 on your blog. Have you done it? If you have not, try to draft it out now since it will not be too late to set goals for your blog and make yourself a blog performance management tool.
2008 Blogging Resolutions for Wayne Liew Dot Com
Wayne Liew Dot Com will be a more targeted niche blog in 2008. I expect it to cover blogging extensively, right from how to make money from blogging to blog readers psychology.
300 RSS Feed readers
When I am writing this, my number of RSS readers stands at 104 (broke my own record), which is very low in this niche. Getting 300 RSS readers will mean hard work on contents as well as marketing. If you have not subscribed to my RSS feed, you may now do so via feed reader or via e-mail.
50 newsletter subscribers
After some readings on Internet marketing, I learned an important lesson - The main aim of a web site is to get e-mail addresses. I will be collecting e-mail addresses from those who wanted to receive my newsletter this year, after I have finished my e-book (blogging-related) which is to be given out for those who subscribed.
300 daily unique visits
The traffic for Wayne Liew Dot Com has been lingering from 30 unique visits to the highest of 381 unique visits daily over Year 2007. The traffic goal that I have set for this blog for Year 2008 will be at least 300 daily unique visits. Traffic is one very important measurement of a blog and of course having large stream of traffic is the dream of every blogger.
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Blog design makeover
After being challenged by pablopabla from Blogsreview.net, I will try my best to get a blog redesign next year. This is not a measurable goal, it might be a complete makeover if I am lucky to make that much money or received donations from my readers or it might be the same design as now for the whole year. 
20% of traffic from search engines
Out of the 300 daily unique visitors that I aimed, 20% of it must be coming from search engines. The larger portion of such traffic will mean lesser efforts needed in prolific marketing which demands a lot of time and productivity. It will also help stretching the recognition of this blogging tips blog.
Top 30 Marco Richter’s Top Blogs About Blogging
This blogs about blogging ranking, although not official, has been my reference for how well is my blogging tips blog doing compared with others within the niche. It would be a pleasure for me to break into Top 30 as I am outside 50 at the moment I am writing this.
2008 Blogging Resolutions for Wayne Liew
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The above is what I hope to achieve with my blog in Year 2008 and this section I will outline what will I expect from myself to contribute to the improvement of this blogging tips blog.
Continuous quality contents
Contents have always been the most important element of a blog. Some readers might have arrived at this blog because of the time I have spent on marketing via commenting but I do get complements for the contents and I want more of it since it makes me feels good! 
A more mature but simple writing style is what I am eager to have on this blog as well.
Having an Editorial Calendar
This is one thing that I will implement on this blog in Year 2008. For those who don’t get what this means, an editorial calendar is a fixed sequence on types of post to be published over a certain period. I will be publishing blog post according to the categories on this blog. This means that it will be a post on blog improvement tomorrow and blog monetization the day after.
This will ensure every topic is adequately covered and also grab visitors to come back on certain days, expecting certain topics, indirectly getting more readers with different blogging tips needs. However, I have to admit that I am not brainy in certain field and might skip in the sequence. Hopefully, this can be accepted by you all.
Prolific Marketing Strategy
I will continue with my marketing strategy that makes this blog getting most of its readers - commenting skillfully on blogs within the same niche. It takes a lot of my time with over 100 blogs bookmarked and subscribed (aiming to increase the numbers) but all I can say is that it has been rewarding with this move.
Giving Away Rewards
There is no doubt that giving away prizes or rewards in other forms can reap in a lot of publicity in the form of linkbacks, traffic, exposure to potential new readers and participation from readers. Yes, expect cash rewards or prizes from Wayne Liew in Year 2008!
Wider Networking
I have to admit in shame that whenever I write to another blogger, the mail is to attempt a linkbait. This will certainly not the case in Year 2008. I will write to bloggers for various reasons to build up the relationship. This will help me to know more about my niche and what tips that bloggers need to improve their blogging feat.
More readings
Reading blogs has been my hobby ever since I started blogging. I hope to read more books relating to marketing, psychology and writing skills in Year 2008 so that I can learn some extra skills and at the same time, sharing it with my blog readers (of course after linking it to blogging).
Blogging Resolution Spoiler in Year 2008
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Second year of tertiary education
I will be in the second year of my tertiary education this year and this means a whole lot more assignments and syllabus to be covered. My life, online and offline is mainly about blogging and academics. A push in both of them will make me keep my productivity in tip-top condition.
Competition
Competition is something you cannot forget especially in a saturated niche like this. I would have to make provisions for new and talented newcomers to this niche. Networking with them or creating myself a new space without competition would create a win-win situation instead of a bloody war.
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is something new for me to try out in Year 2008 which I have been continuously collecting information in Year 2007. I will start this off rather aggressively in this field this year so I might be busy with it, taking the risk of forgetting my blog. 
Conclusion for Year 2008
2008 will be a year full of challenges and only the hardworking and talented ones will win the race. Even if you are not talented, work harder! Everyone has a fair chance this year. Although it has already started after I have nervously anticipated it for long, I wish my readers all the best in Year 2008, in blogging as well as all other aspects in life.
Do you have any questions or points to add to my resolution (maybe some points that you have seen in resolutions of others but not in my resolution)? Have you posted your blogging resolution? What will be the success rate of me achieving my goals (be honest here 
)?
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With your originality in expressing your blogging thoughts, I am sure the target you have set yourself is achievable and I won’t be surprised if you surpass it. Just make sure you focus on your education 1st and blogging 2nd.
That’s a lot of resolutions! Hopefully, you will reach your target in no time!!!!
Those resolultions really hard to achieve by me le.. haha.. For me, my blogging resolutions should be write a quality post and more readers to read.
Good luck in achieving your goals!
You have a photo currently unavailable. For this not to happen anymore, just download the photos on your server.
300 unique per day? are you sure?
i think your blog will perform better, why not target it as 2000, my self already target 1000 per days…
If you enter affiliate marketing , i suggest these steps:
Buy a product that you have heard good information and positive replies about.
Post a review of it while inserting your own affiliate link.
It seems to work like a charm for popular blogs
Do you have any questions or points to add to my resolution (maybe some points that you have seen in resolutions of others but not in my resolution)?
Question: How do you track unique visitors?
Have you posted your blogging resolution?
Posted. I think you gave it a read already.
Simple resolution:
Get within top 100k by end March 2008.
Get within top 10k by end December 2008.
What will be the success rate of me achieving my goals (be honest here
)?
If you:
- Write and publish good content.
- Network with others sincerely
I see no reason why you would not achieve your goals.
Cheers!
Man! That’s really a hell lot of resolutions you make, and the target’s real high (at least for me). Anyway, very interested in the contests and prizes from you. Hehe!
@ pablopabla
Thanks for the complements and advice.
@ kljs
I am just trying to make them measurable. Anyway, most of them are rather linking. Contents = Traffic = RSS Subscribers.
@ keeyit
Well, blogs will grow the longer you blog. Try to continuously produce good contents or contents that your readers like and your blog should get good stats as well.
@ Diana13
Thanks.
Problem rectified. Guessed the owner removed the photo and luckily, I have downloaded it previously.
@ iCalvyn
300 daily uniques will be enough for me though. Maybe I will be revising it if this blog really surpasses the goals that I have made.
@ Neotrepreneur
Yes, I am looking forward to do all that. Thanks for the advice.
@ Deimos
Well, I use Google Analytics. They show everything!! From search terms used to reach my site and where do you guys lurk around on my blog.
Thanks for the support! I will try my best!
@ yung .
and you want more?
You just won something from Kenny!
Wow! Wayne it’s good to hear that you are going to bring out the e-book. Do add me to the News Letter subscribers. I would love to read it first (and to recommend)
I think you can easily achieve those goals Wayne. Just keep trying
“What will be the success rate of me achieving my goals (be honest here
)?”
How can I predict? It depends on your dedication
wao~ You seem have a lot of things to do on 2008~! Wish you succeed~!
You have lotsa visitors I believed~
@ Jalaj
It is in the drafting stage. It is hard to find a unique topic for my e-book since this niche is saturated. I will try my best to cover a topic that has not or not widely covered before with my e-book.
Hopefully it will be good.
@ Ruchir
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Thanks mate. I have full dedication for blogging (I hope so…
@ Sean
No I don’t have a lot. Problogger do have a lot.
Thanks. All the best for you and your blog in 2008 as well.
It will be as good as your blog (of course may be better than that).
I was just Googling to see who else wrote about their 2008 blogging resolutions and came across your post. I think we’re in the same boat: the readership is finally kicking in and it’s time to focus on more content, more quality, and more networking.
Nothing shabby about 100 subscribers, though; that first 100 is by far the hardest to get. I’m just about at 200, and the second 100 came a lot more easily.
It is quite pressurizing now in such a stage but I am ready for it.
Are you sure getting the second 100 is much more easier? I will try my best!