Blogging is hard work. Like many things in life, it helps to have goals and to celebrate significant milestones along the way. My own next personal milestone will be achieving 20,000 hits (nearly there) on What Cathy Read Next, something I never expected when I started blogging last November.
So here are 10 thoughts about blogging milestones worth celebrating.
Firsts: your first post (yay!), your first follower (who’s not one of your family or your best friend), your first like or comment
Popularity: reaching a noteworthy number of followers, whether that be 10, 100, 500, 1000 or beyond.
Interaction: getting a milestone number of total comments on your blog or surpassing your previous record for comments on a particular post
Relevance: achieving a new record for the most views of an individual post (you are in touch with the zeitgeist!)
Output: reaching a milestone number of posts on your blog, whether it be 10, 100, 500 or more
Productivity: working your socks off to publish your highest ever number of posts in a month
Persistence: celebrating your blogiversary (we recommend cake)
Eloquence: having a quote from one of your reviews appear on a publisher’s or author’s website, inside a book or on a book’s cover
Reputation: having a post shared or re-blogged (even better if it’s by the author of the book you’re reviewing), being tagged or having your blog included in others’ blog rolls
Excellence: being nominated for a recognised Blogging Award or even – Ta Dah! – winning
Perhaps you’ve already achieved all these? In which case, congratulations, you’ve clearly put in a lot of hard work and have success to show for it. Maybe you’ve achieved only a few or just the one? Well, then you can look forward to celebrating some significant milestones in the future or just patting yourself on the back for a job well done.
What other blogging milestones do you think are worthy of celebration?
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