End of Year Blog Review

Darren at ProBlogger has a list of 69 questions to ask yourself and your blog, heading into the New Year. They are broken up into categories:

• General Questions
• Traffic
• Content
• Community
• Your Niche
• Design
• Monetization
• Technical

Really the questions he lists are just guidelines to get you started. The idea is to come up with more and more to cover every angle of your blog. This will help you plan something better for the New Year, by allowing you to make small changes that affect the overall look and performance of your blog.

Girl on the Write is still new-ish, but there are things I need to cover in all these areas to improve the success of it. Traffic needs to go up, and ads need to be more relevant to readership. And community needs to be built. Over at my political blog there is a strong community made up of regular readers and commenters. I am hoping to achieve the same thing here.

Readership is valuable, and not just from a dollars and cents perspective. I have met some fantastic people via my political blog, and I want the same kind of dedicated readership here at Girl on the Write.