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Review of my 2016 blog goals

December 31, 2016December 27, 2016 Corinne 6 comments
Review of my 2016 blog goals

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I set myself some blog goals last December for 2016. I then reviewed the in April and then again in September. I decided to review them twice to remind myself of the goals I had set, as the year before I set myself some goals and then forgot about them – meaning I was far from my goals in November when I decided to check them.

Let’s see how I did in 2016.

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Twitter: Reach 7000 followers.

At the start of 2016, I was at 4400 Twitter followers. In April, I had reached 6919 which was close to my goal so I decided to change my target to 10k.

My September I was at 9800 followers and I hit 10k at the end of September. I set myself a new goal of 12k which I’m not going to reach.

I currently have 10928 followers and I’ve found my growth has slowed down a bit due to not being as active on Twitter – this is something I need to change in 2017!

Bloglovin’: Reach 3500.

I was at 2300 Bloglovin’ followers when I set myself this goal and was gaining 50-100 followers a week because I was using these tips on how to gain more Bloglovin’ followers.

In April I was at 3126 followers, so I was on track and by September I was at 3793 – I set myself a new goal of 4000. I’m currently at 3884, so I don’t think I’ll be reaching 4k by the end of the year.

The thing is, although the tips I were using to get more followers did work, it takes lots of time and effort and I’ve just not had time to comment on other peoples blogs and follower them in an attempt to grow my own.

E-mail Newsletter: 1 news letter a month.

I’ve been so bad at this goal! I’ve not sent one out in months. I did well at sending them out weekly with my blog course on how to improve your blog.

I don’t even know if there is any point in even setting this again as I probably did it about 3 times.

Create a blog course.

Nailed this one! It’s in my side bar if you want to see. I actually did two – one on improving your blog and one one Google Analytics!

Both are in my sidebar.

Experiment with social media.

This is something I started off well with and then it died down.

I spent a lot of time on Pinterest and grew my account to 3744 followers from nothing in December 2015. I’m not great at scheduling Pins. I do see some traffic from Pinterest but not loads, it probably averages out to around 4 or 5 sessions a day from Pinterest.

I also spent time on Instagram and when I was participating in comment pods and interacting with other accounts I saw a massive increase in followers. Since I’ve stopped doing this, my following has been a bit stagnant. I’m at around 6300 followers at the moment and had around 2k at the start of the year! I’ve wrote a post on how I’ve increased my Instagram followers here.

I did a bit of work on Facebook, mainly doing comment pods but didn’t see much change in engagement. I did nothing with Google+.

I think next year I’ll focus on Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter with my social media goals.

So I’ve hit all goals that I set myself at the start of the year apart from sending out the newsletters, so that’s not bad at all!

How did you do with your goals?

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6 comments

  1. Petra says:
    December 31, 2016 at 12:29 pm

    You achieved some great figures, well done! I didn’t set any specific goals like that, I just wanted to grow my blog traffic more which I did but it’s been growing very slow so in 2017 I definitely need to work on that.

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  2. Elizabeth says:
    December 31, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Blog wise, I restarted Twitter and hit 200 Bloglovin’ followers so I did pretty well!

    http://lizziedailyblog.blogspot.co.uk/

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  3. Cafebiblioart says:
    December 31, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    I might have no reached all of my goals, but I am happy. Time for me is a foreign concept and has been since starting university four years ago and as such I am more than satisfied with my results for 2016. That is what matters though, right?

    As for your goals, all I have to say is wow! That is really amazing and I have no idea how you did it. I have been stuck on the same number of Twitter pretty much since the beginning.

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  4. Erin says:
    December 31, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    I loved your blog course so much! It helped me SO much the start of this year. I will be posting my stats and targets tomorrow, think the only one I hit was BL!

    Erin || MakeErinOver

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  5. Akaleistar says:
    January 1, 2017 at 2:16 am

    Great job with your goals! I really enjoyed your blog course 🙂

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  6. Aimee says:
    January 1, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    You didn’t do badly, at all. I think you did really well – and I really enjoyed your blog courses. I found them so helpful! Well done 🙂 x

    Reply

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