I was coaching a blogger yesterday evening and we were discussing her revenue goals for her blog.  During the conversation a top ‘mom blog’ that reportedly earns over $4000 a month in ad revenue was brought up.

When considering your revenue goals for your blog you need to be realistic about the amount of work involved to get to that revenue goal. The site mentioned in our discussion was started in 2001. That is nine full years of building organic traffic to her site.

Some more info on the blog:
Google PageRank: 6
Alexa Rank: 12,638
Google BackLinks: 7,050
Yahoo BackLinks: 1,337,267

Today’s question for bloggers. Take a top performing blog with a similar audience to yours and compare it to your blog. This should help you set some goals around promoting your blog.

Here are a few handy tools to do so:
1) PopURI
2) Google Trends
3) Market Leap
4) Spy Fu
5) Attention Meter
6) Ranking.com
7) Alexa
Way back Machine - look at the blog over the years.