Setting SEO Goals

Setting SEO goals are often discouraging because the 'pay-off' ususally doesn't come until a much later date, but there are simple ways to help you achieve short term goals that will bring you long term success.  One good exercise that I like to use is the unique visitor metric.  For example, if a client of mine has 200 unique visitors per month on their blog, I like to set a goal of 300 for the next month.  Setting these small goals help you to get to the massive big goal that will come at a later date.  Additionally, this can be kind of fun just to see how many visitors that you can get over the month in total.

It may be just me but I like to see massive action hapening!  No sense in going small, if you are going to do something do it with all of your heart on a massive scale!

Something that will bring a smile to your face is when you have overdelivered to a customer.  There are a few different reactions that you can get from a customer when you are working for them but the reaction that I like the most is "wow, that's incredible, keep up the good work!"

There are always going to people who nitpick everything that you do for them, and often these people can suck the very life out of you.  You have to make a point to not let their words harm or discourage you.  In business you will meet all kind of people, people who will encourage you and people who will discourage you, listen to the people who encourage you and NEVER listen to the people who discourage you.

Set some reasonable goals for your site or business and work towards that goal, whether it be one new customer this month or a hundred new visitors to your blog.  The nice thing about setting SEO goals is you will often benefit from repeat visitors to your blog (or site).  If folks find what you have to say is compelling, they will keep coming back to see if you have anything fresh and intuitive.  Over time this kind of 'investing' your time into creating new good content will pay off in spades.  There are a bunch of sites that I surf on a daily basis because I get a tip or a trick or some motivation from the authors.

You have to be very concious of your time though!  As much as I appreciate Facebook, it can suck time from your day and before you know it you've wasted a great deal of time doing things that are not helping you achieve your final goals.

Here are 3 things that can help you get more visitors to your site, start doing them TODAY, not tomorrow:

1. Write a blog post every morning that give your readers some insight on problems that you've experienced and how you've overcame them.
2. Open up a Ping.fm account and sign up for every one of the services (this takes some time, a few hours at least).
3. Share the link to the blog post that you create in Step 1 on Ping.fm everytime you write something new on your blog. 

NOTE: When you share your link in Ping.fm, use the full URL to your content, don't use their URL shortening service, we want that content to get indexed!

Tommorow is the 14th and starting on the 15th we're going to do the 30 day challenge with the goal of 400 NEW unique visitors to our sites, I'll keep a record of a site of mine and see if I can get over the goal.

Let's do it together, you have nothing to lose and I will give you all of the info that you need to work along with me but until then please setup your Ping.fm account.