Realm of the Sapphired Dragon: Setting my 2015 Blogging Goals & 31 ways to Better Blogging 2015

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Setting my 2015 Blogging Goals & 31 ways to Better Blogging 2015

Welcome to 2015 on Realm of the Sapphired Dragon. After a fairly inconsistent last 12 months, both in reading and blogging, I am back and ready to focus on building this blog over the next 12 months to make it bigger and better as well as getting my reading mojo back.

So I have set myself a few blogging goals (so far) for this year:

Focus more on reading both for review and for pleasure and better balance between the two. Last year between work and looking after my two year old, I found myself struggling to get any quality reading time and feeling guilty when i read for pleasure as I had a number of review books to get through. This year I hope to plan my time better so as to be able to read review books and also read according to mood in between them when they don't necessarily correlate.

More organised with regards to blog posts. Last year I tended to leave posts to the last minute so there were weeks where even simple meme posts did not go up as I left it too late. My aim this year is to plan out at least a week or two in advance and take advantage of the scheduler in Blogger so as to be able to post more consistently

Try and be involved in at least one blog tour every couple of months. Depending on how this goes, I may up it to at least one per month.

Get more involved (re-involved) in the Blogging Community. Again, due to real life taking over, I have found myself not as involved in the blogging community as I had been previously. I plan do this by participating in challenges on other blogs as well as frequently visiting, reading and commenting at other Blogs.

In an effort to start 2015 on the right foot, I have decided to participate in Parajunkee's 31 Days to Better Blogging 2015

The aim of this challenge is to help develop and improve our blogs overall which in turn could potentially increase traffic, keep that traffic as followers or at least frequent visitors as well as making us (hopefully) more organised bloggers. While I am a little late to the party given it is already 3rd January, I plan to start tomorrow, 4th January but will definitely tackle days 1,2 & 3 sometime before the end of the month.

Each Day is as follows and I will try and post a short post each day updating my progress with each daily task: