My Blogging & Social Media Goals For 2021

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What will blogging be like in 2021 for us? Well, I'm hoping that I won't need to write posts about pillow challenges or lockdown routines this year. 

It's hard to believe that it's been an actual calendar year since I last made goals for my blog. Yes, honestly guys, it is 2021. It does still feel like March 2020 some days. 

Last year I made a promise to focus more on my blog. I'm pleased that I made that goal for myself and my blog as my blog is in a better place now than it was at the start of 2020. The whole reason I started blogging was to write, not tear myself away from it to worry about the Instagram algorithm and posting at a certain time every day. My blog is my baby and I want it to stay that way. 

Now, it wouldn't surprise me that at this time of year, there will be a handful of bloggers who will be writing their blogging and social media goals for 2021. Sorry guys, I'm going to be one of those bloggers. If this ain't your thing, go and have a browse at my last post. However, if you are sticking around for this one (hurrah!) then here they are, here's my blogging and social media goals for 2021 -

1)  MOVE  TO  WORDPRESS  AND  GO  SELF  HOSTED

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Hmm, this is something I would like to get done this year. However, it makes me feel quite nervy about making the jump over to WordPress. I've never attempted to use it before and I don't know if I'll be able to get along with it! Also the financial side of things make me a little wary too. Self hosting isn't exactly cheap and it's certainly not cheap to renew every year! But yes, I think this is will be one of those things where I'll just have to bite the bullet and go for it!

2) POST  MORE  QUALITY  THAN  QUANTITY

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I made this goal for myself last year, or the year before. But I kind of slipped into the habit of sticking to a schedule again. This is something I want to rectify and kind of slip into the habit of not posting to a schedule invented by yours truly. Lesson learnt kids, don't force content. It never ends well.

3) PAY  MORE  ATTENTION  TO  LINKEDIN  &  FACEBOOK

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I've already made a head start on this goal, but it's definitely one I'm determined to continue with this year. For about 3/4 of this year, I kind of neglected my LinkedIn and Facebook pages. Honestly guys, I just forgot about them. Near the end of 2020, I had mysteriously grown a slight obsession with LinkedIn and loved discovering new people and I loved finding out which companies were looking at my profile and what profession they were hoping I did. Unfortunately, I'm no engineer or data analyst. I could never be that skilled. In terms of my Facebook page, I want to post more on my page that isn't just new blog posts. Maybe older blog posts, questions to ask to my followers etc. 

4) DON'T  AGONISE  OVER  INSTAGRAM

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2021 is the year I'm going to say a massive f*ck you to the algorithm and not give a flying sh*t about engagement and just post whatever and whenever the hell I want. Mind you, that's not quite so easy to do. If 2020 has taught us anything is that life is too short to be worrying about whether to post at 12 or 6pm. I made the decision near the end of last year to cut back on how much I post during the week. I'm so happy that I did because I'm enjoying Instagram more than ever now, despite the stupid algorithm.

5) KEEP  WORKING  ON  PINTEREST

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I think Pinterest got a little jealous of Instagram stealing the show with the algorithm and decided to join the platform by applying an algorithm to their own platform. Pinterest was something I enjoyed for a while last year, but now that feels like a chore to get the posting time right. But it's something I'm keen to keep working on 2021. 

6) DO  MORE  OUTDOOR  PHOTOGRAPHY

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Obviously this goal is pandemic dependant and when I get my vaccine dependant too. But I would love to step away from my lovely bedroom and be a little more adventurous. Yes, I want to be more adventurous people! I've posed in so many different positions in my bedroom for blogging/Instagram photo purposes during the lockdown that I'm very quickly running out of ideas. This one may not be able to happen until the middle of the year, but it's something I'm eager to do. 

7) RETWEET  MORE  PREVIOUS  BLOG  POSTS

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Yep, I've definitely slacked on this one in 2020. You'd think I'd be on top of it when there's been f*ck all else for me to do in the last 12 months!  But yeah, I need to get my older posts back on Twitter again for this year!

There you have it, my blogging and social media goals for 2021. I hope I can achieve all these (or most of them) and hopefully I can set myself a completely new set of goals for 2022!

What are your blogging/social media goals for 2021? Let me know!

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