Alexa has updated my traffic ranking again – this time to 262,259. Wondeful! While the jump is not a tremendous as the previous one, it is still an improvement!

I was doing my homework, analysing the successful blogs on my daily reads, and I realise that some blogs have Alexa Rankings in four digits, and Page Ranks of 6s and 7s… and the best part is – they have also started only early this year. Maybe some are like 10 months old or something like that.

I’m encouraged, and I will work hard.

Another one of Easton’s hilarious post was about his blogging goals and his agreement to give away his Yoda PEZ dispenser. Haha! This is funny.

But I think the idea by ProBlogger Darren Rowse about making blogging goals public for motivation makes sense. Its a different feeling when you know that you have visitors keeping an eye on you everyday.

So everyone, listen up! Here are my goal for this blog!

Goal number 1: I will post at least 10 posts a week, until the end of this year! These 10 posts must be of quality, at least 350 words and above, and relating to either or both of my two main focuses, which are corporate blogging, and blogopreneurship (making money though blogs). Of course, I think I should stray away sometimes to post news and updates of the blogosphere, but yeah, 10 posts related to either of these two topics. The only time I am allowed to take a break is in December, where I think I will spending some time in the wilderness conquering mountains in Malaysia.

Goal number 2: I will contribute to the web (whether it is through forums, submission to blog directories, other people’s blog comments, trackbacks etc) and leave an inbound link to my blog at least 40 times each week. This should build up substantial IBLs for my off page optimization, and help me to focus on the social aspect of blogging.

I hope this one goal is good enough to get me through the less controllable goal of achieving an Alexa Rank below 100,000, and at least a PR4 by 31st December 2006.

If I don’t achieve these goals, what happens? I don’t have a PEZ dispenser to give away… but I shall sing 10 nursery rhymes, and put them in a podcast for everyone to have a good laugh at. BTW, my singing is horrible.

Since today is a Monday, its a great day to start! The rule starts right after this post! Are you looking forward to the nursery rhymes?

Today I just found out that my Alexa Traffic Ranking for this blog has finally gone <500,000! Well… its not something BIG or what, but at least I’m in the top 500,000!, and all this is done within 41 days! My page rank is still 0, and I’m quite puzzled actually. Never mind, lets wait and see.

Of course, I must say – all these don’t come easy, its quite a lot of work, a lot of research, and I must say its thanks to all the SEO techniques I’ve learnt in the SEO Web Design Course by my mentor that brought me here. Thanks Shi!

By the way, I am talking about free organic search marketing, not paid results on PPC engines like Overture or Adwords. I didn’t pay a single cent and I’m listed first today on Google for nice keyword phrases like Singapore Corporate Blogging Training and Singapore Blog Training

I am preparing two things to be launched at the end of the year:

1. Be a Blogopreneur – a blogging entrepreneurship book that targets individuals who want to kick start their entrepreneurship journey using blogs
2. A course on blog optimization and blog marketing for companies in Singapore (if an overseas company wants to fly me over to train, I will gladly accept it too! :mrgreen:) to use the Internet as an alternative source for marketing their products.

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My next target for Alexa Ranking will be <100,000! and till then… Keep blogging!

Welcome! Do you know that the Internet is one of the main sources for research today? People who go on the net to look for one thing – valuable information! And I’m sure that everyone in this world is passsionate about something – whether it may be child education or marketing or leisure fishing or computer programming… that information in you has tremendous potential – and if guided well, that could well be a mountain of gold, and the best part is, only YOU have access to this information?

What am I talking about here? I’m talking about publishing content using blogs, marketing your blog, and making it a source of income for you! Believe me, this source of income can help you ease your finances tremendously!

Well then, aren’t you interested to find out more? Stay tuned for further updates, as I share how I use my blogs to make money!