Have you thought about your goals for 2008 yet? Better yet, have your written your goals down and defined them specifically? Its one thing to set goals, it quit another to achieve them. If done correctly you can achieve and possibly exceed any goal that you set for yourself be it Blogging or some other aspect of your life.

Here are some effective ways to set, monitor and track your goals.

Make your resolutions goals - Have you ever noticed how most resolutions are made. Lets use the one I hear the…

Seth Godin is an icon of new marketing, and someone whose thinking I respect. Seth is also a prolific blogger. In some ways, he does blogging the way it’s “supposed” to be done, but in other ways, he bucks convention, such as by not allowing comments.

Just as I did with my learning from posts on Britney Spears and Boing Boing, what I’m going after here isn’t advice from Seth about how to blog, but rather, to see what Seth can teach us about blogging through his example.

Here we go:

1. Closing comments doesn’t end…

It’s almost 2008, so in addition to creating some New Year’s resolutions for a brighter and happier 2008, why not create some blog-specific resolutions?

Whether you’re a new blogger, or are a blogging pro, it’s time to review how far you’ve come in 2007. Create some blog-goals for 2008.

Take a few minutes to review your blog - its search engine rankings and the income it has produced. If your blog is a promotional tool rather than an income-generator, “income” could mean prospects and leads your blog has found for…

PLUGINS

• SEO, Page Rank push plugin - This plugins helps you to push your page rank from he category pages down yo your individual articles. The idea is to get more internal linking done, so that the Google juice is spread out evenly and carried more to the article pages. Not a bad idea, if you can’t do the linking manually, this one will just do the trick.
• Last viewed posts - This is a new idea. This plugin will show the latest viewed posts by other visitors. You’ve heard about recent posts, recently…

To be quite frank I like social networking to an extent that they bring more traffic to your site and also enjoy it, but the fact that they also bring a huge amount of ego when there are spikes (hitting front pages) that turns better authors into egoistic authors.

What is your reaction when this happens to you?

Do you turn into egoistic authors who think they are the best because their page hit the front page of some Social Networking site, or do you provide your users with more content that…