Edit - After a little Maths, I should achieve 1421 views next year!
Okay so this is something I literally thought of writing about less than a minute ago... My targets for the blog for the next year!
The blogs been up about a month now and has received roughly 600 page views (which I am honestly so thankful for!). As a quick note before I go into what I want to do, I want to thank all the people who have read or just visited my blog! It's definitely not your average teen blog but the fact my number of views is close to 1000 is just crazy! Thank you so much!
Now, my plans for next year. I think a small thing I want to do is get a personal domain name for my blog! If that just looks like a different language to anyone, what I mean is that I would like to go from www.emsythorne.blogspot.co.uk and make it be www.emsythorne.com! In my mind, not having the "blogspot" in between makes it seem more professional but that might just be me!
Secondly, I might have a little play around with some alternative designs. I love the one that is currently on the website and all it is to be honest is the result of playing around with a preset design for 5 minutes. In my opinion, there are a few little tweaks I could make to the colour scheme and the layout to make it look a tiny bit better. One of the things I want to change about the layout is just the widgets - they need a little more colour and a better design which I'll look at sometime in the next year!
My third target is to start blogging about Transgender issues more. I know that at the minute it's more of a personal blog, with little insights of what it's like to be Transgender. This blog isn't supposed to be mainly personal; it's supposed to be split between my personal life, and about Transgender. That's probably the easiest target when I spend a little more time thinking about what to blog about! On the subject of my posts as well, I'm hoping to make them more frequent - I posted a lot at the start and I've kind of gone inactive. That is a huge target for next year!
Fourth is to possibly get a fan base... I don't blog to become popular or to make money (more on this in a second). The reason I blog is to just be me and express myself to the world without people knowing it's me. I'm grateful for the 600 views I already have, but I also think having visitors that come back and check it weekly would be incredible! If I could reach 4000 views in a years time, then I'd be amazed and I would continue doing this for as long as I can remember! A fan base would be a dream come true.
Finally, I want to kind of go back on what I've just said - today I signed up to AdSense, which allows me to show ads on the blog and make a profit for it. Obviously it's not a lot of money but at the end of the day, I could be making enough to quit my current job. That would also be brilliant. One thing I will do though no matter how much money, is to not allow ads to get in the way of the site or my content. They will be placed at the sidelines so that your experience doesn't change!
These are just some of the things I want to do next year on the blog! Maybe in a year's time, I'll look back on this post and have 1000's of dedicated readers. The future's unpredictable - let's just see what happens.
Love you all,
Ems!
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