Blog milestones are discussed a lot within the blogging community.
There’s not a day goes by where I don’t see a Tweet from a blogger asking for follows to reach their next milestone.
I do feel like there is a bit of stigma attached to caring so much about your stats, though. Some bloggers are quick to say they don’t care about the numbers and they just blog for a hobby, which is fair enough – but I’ve often felt guilty in the past for caring about my stats. Like people will think I’m blogging for the wrong reasons.
It’s natural to want something you’ve put a lot of time in to progress.
And the only way to objectively measure your progression is by statistics such as page views and followers.
Yes, there are other ways to measure your success, such as improvements in writing and photography – but they might be more subjective.
In the past few months, I’ve become less concerned with follow numbers and I’ve been focusing more on my page views, specifically page views from the UK.
Anyway, enough waffle. Let’s get to the chat.
Q1: what’s your current milestone to achieve for your blog?
@Noor_Unnahar my current milestone is to reach 200 followers on @bloglovin … I’m currently at 151 🙂 #socialbloggers
— Ayre (@ariannecruz07) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar Good question! I reached 2000 Bloglovin’ followers recently so that was exciting! #socialbloggers
— Becky Bedbug (@BeckyBedbug) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar to get people to return to read new posts. I don’t think a lot of people do. #socialbloggers
— Apoorva (@_lostinthelight) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar Improve my photography! #socialbloggers
— Pinja? (@pinja_k) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I really want to increase my traffic and get at least 500+ views each day! #socialbloggers
— Priyanka (@omgitsprii) May 23, 2015
A1: I know it’s not all about numbers, but my next milestone is to reach 1000 followers! Not too far off! Eek! @Noor_Unnahar #socialbloggers
— Jennyinneverland? (@jennymarston_xo) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I would like to have a regular readership. Not sure how I would measure that but it would be gd to know #socialbloggers
— ?????? (@damzlinthisdres) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar to take my blog into a new direction. Something different… 😊 #socialbloggers
— Vanisha ? (@vanishaxxn) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar A1 Reach 100000 page view and 200 bloglovin followers, really close in both… #socialbloggers
— Simona Elena (@skydreamersimi) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar A1. I want to increase my traffic & more importantly, my returning traffic. #socialbloggers
— Lou (@naturallybeige) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I want to create a group of loyal readers who come back for every post 🙂 Just some consitency #socialbloggers
— Ella (@EllaWasHereblog) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I would just like to gradually increase my views and visitors to my blog 🙂 #socialbloggers
— Kimberley (@clrchronicles) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar blogging about other things not just beauty. Like hot topics in the media #socialbloggers
— Vanisha ? (@vanishaxxn) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar yeah I think it makes your blog stand out too as it’s a place where you can voice your opinion #socialbloggers
— Vanisha ? (@vanishaxxn) May 23, 2015
Q2: Are there some milestones you’ve achieved in past? What were they?
@Noor_Unnahar on the blog, nothing really. On IG, I’ve been featured by several accounts! 😁 #socialbloggers
— Apoorva (@_lostinthelight) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I remember being DESPERATE to reach 1000! #socialbloggers
— Becky Bedbug (@BeckyBedbug) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar starting a blog in the first place!! That’s my #1 Milestone #socialbloggers
— stephanie_emma (@Stephie_Emma) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I started my twitter all over again due to personal reasons and I’ve gotten almost 150 followrs in such a short space of time!
— ?????? (@damzlinthisdres) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I reached 3000 twitter followers since December at the start of this month so quite proud of that ! #socialbloggers
— Anna Busby (@frazzledbeauty) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar reaching 10k was great but my biggest milestone I achieved was being able to help people through my posts #socialbloggers
— Em (@emmalouisalala) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar A2: To grow my blogs readership. Not so much followers, just people that come back regularly.
— StephanieRae’sPlace (@MechanicsWife72) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I was so happy when I got 100 followers, it is such a small number but it felt amazing! #socialbloggers
— Ella (@EllaWasHereblog) May 23, 2015
Q3: What are you doing to achieve your current in-progress milestone?
@Noor_Unnahar Mine is to improve on my photography. Better pics means people are likely to engage I’ve found #socialbloggers
— ?????? (@damzlinthisdres) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I’m definitely going to be working on my photography, try new collabs, as well as create a blogger group! #socialbloggers
— Priyanka (@omgitsprii) May 23, 2015
A3: I’ll be doing a new design for my blog and working on my photography for a more cool-looking blog 😎 #socialbloggers
— Noor Unnahar (@Noor_Unnahar) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar up my fashion game.. and put more hours in! N having faith that I can do it. Sometimes that’s the hardest part #socialbloggers
— Anna Busby (@frazzledbeauty) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I want to improve my content and promote myself more. I want to talk to people and I grow on confidence #socialbloggers
— Lily (@pintsizedtweets) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I’m working on my photography. There are so many techniques I’m yet to try. #socialbloggers
— Apoorva (@_lostinthelight) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar I’m constantly trying to improve my blog but I just feel like it isn’t going anywhere #socialbloggers
— Pinja? (@pinja_k) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar a3. just participate in twitter chats regularly, and post on schedule 🙂 #socialbloggers
— Ayre (@ariannecruz07) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar Have to work out on Time and Stress management. Really sucking at keeping things up-to-date. #socialbloggers
— Sadaf F K. (@sadaffk_) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar A3 Trying to come up with new ideas for blog posts and just continue as usual with promoting my posts #socialbloggers
— Simona Elena (@skydreamersimi) May 23, 2015
@Noor_Unnahar Q3: To be as organised as I can be and make sure I write as much as I can when I’m in the mood to #socialbloggers
— Victoria (@TheDaisyJaynes) May 23, 2015
This is a great topic! I try not to focus to much on my own stats (like, not even look at them!) because I don’t want to compare my blog to other’s or feel too much pressure to change my content.. but the point of blogging is to reach people and attract followers, so I think I may be doing it all wrong! Regardless, thank you for writing this since it’s been on my mind 🙂
lovejoanna.com
Yup, I am one who don’t give followers, numbers, stat a big priority. I blog for other reason. I am known to do things half way, so blogging is a challenge for me. It helps me focus, stick of task and the bonus is I get to know a bunch of people (bloggers) and form some kind of friendship with them. Funny to see your post talking about this as I was pondering on the same while trying to put a post on why I blog!
interesting post! very helpul 🙂
Very interesting post, Corinne! I know is not about the numbers, but it’s really nice when you achieve goals and increase your readerhip! Thanks for sharing! xx
http://alemint.blogspot.com/
Very interesting topic for discussion! <3
quite happy to see my name there 🙂 I love twitter chats!
I recently installed a statistics feature, because I’m curious to see if anyone visits the site, and where they find the link. But I don’t care about folkowers as a number, I just enjoy seeing people visit and leave comments. Seeing that people come back to read and comment is how I measure “success” (whatever that is), I don’t even have a “follow” option, and don’t care about it either, to me it only shows how many people clicked a button and not necessarily how many people read the blog regularly.
My only milestone is to continue blogging and not quit when I lose inspiration.
Such a great topic and I love have active and engaged your twitter following is!
Chelsea
Ginger Side of Life
I’m not sure what I am aiming at I am still new so I am just looking forward to people enjoying my post 🙂
RedLip&Love
great! thanks for sharing this! my milestone would be to reach my 300th post and to be consistently posting for 3 years now.
Have a great week!
Animated Confessions
Thanks for sharing this! It’s interesting to see what everyone’s milestones are! Mine is to post more consistently (I’m so bad at that) and reach 7000 followers on Instagram (I have a little more than a 1000 to go)!
Tina
http://www.justatinabit.com
This is such an interesting topic. I blog because I enjoy it but its so hard not get caught up with the numbers. It’s nice to know that people are actually reading your blog, so maybe I think concentrating on page view is more important to me.
Zeynab x
The Beauty Load
An interesting chat, unfortunately I only know the basics about my stats trying to learn more. What is important to me is having an engaged readership and come back. Having a relationship with people is more of a driver Lucy x
Yeah, we all have different things that are importation to us. Looks like you do well with creating an engaged readership 🙂
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Tyana
cityofglitter.com
Hello Corinne, how are you ?
Your post is very interesting. I don’t need a lot of followers, I just want to share my passion with people 🙂
I used to focus on stats too much, now I feel more established I just try to focus on producing content. Although at the moment after the photo google disater I’m trying to rebuild my blog and work on creating content more and more.
Sammie
Little Blonde Life – Lifestyle Blog
Yeah I’m the same. Focusing on great content that people want to come back to. I haven’t done any self promotion like I used to in ages apart from tweeting posts!