One Year Goal
Written by Gaje Master on July 9th, 2008This is my own personal challenge that I wanted to start for myself. I don’t know if you have been following a long or not but recently I lost all the data from my blog.
As a result of this unfortunate mistake, I have had no choice but to start my blog over from scratch. I loss a lot because of this.
Oh Gaje Master, it can’t be that bad!
No, it is even worse. My blog was down for a few days as I was trying to bring it back up after switching host and domain registars. I loss everything and when I say everything I do mean everything. What is a blogger to do after a tragedy like this? I had no choice but to start fresh.
I found out real quick that when something happens to your blog and you are not able to bring it back up within a few days, you start to loose your readers.
As of right now, I have four subscribers. This is sad because I not only lost all the subscribers to this blog but I also lost all my readers. This is bad for business.
What I plan to do
To get things going on my blog, I started to keep it down until the 14th of July so that I would have time to add more content on it. After checking all my updates on the statistics for my blog, I figured that it was better to have only a few post and keep people just a little bit interested than it was to have no post and lose everyone that ever came to this blog.
Thank you
I wanted to thank those four people who stood by me even after they realized what was going on.
One year Monthly Challenge
Since I have to start my blog from scratch, I plan to use a little bit of the stuff that I have learned over the past few years to gain readers, subscribers, and to earn money from my blog.
Since my blog was back up on July 8th, I plan to post a new post under the “One year challenge” to keep everyone updated with what I want to happen with this blog in as little as a years time.
Some of you are probably thinking that a year is a long time but it really isn’t considering how long I have blogged and how long that I know it takes to get a blog properly running the way that it should.
I plan to keep everyone updated on this and to let everyone know what I have done during the month to meet my goal.
What is my goal?
I’m not sure yet and I need time to think about it. I will be posting something up on my blog to let you know what my goal is for the year. I also plan on giving something away to a subscriber at the end of the year.
Will I make it?
Man, I hope so or else I really haven’t learned as much as I had hoped too.
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July 9th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I’m sorry to hear of your troubles. I wish you the best as you establish new goals and rebuild your blog!
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Thanks a million. Like I said in my post, there are the up sides of this and the down sides of this. I am just trying to meet it somewhere in the middle but at least now I have the chance to really work my blog and get it the way that I want it. It is just sad that I lost all that hard work that I had put into it before.
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July 10th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Good Luck Gaje! My goal is much simpler since my blog is personal and not making money–One year of blogging and learning, then perhaps a blog that pays money.
I wish you well.
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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August 9th, 2008 at 6:05 am
Sorry to hear about your problems with the blog,I know I have been there. It’s hard to recover from losing ALL or most of your blog. I just subscribed to your feed. keep up the blogging!
Jim Moon
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August 9th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
May you achieve your goals!
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September 5th, 2008 at 6:10 am
i m really woried about your problem with the blog. A blog that helps you in getting money. Its really hard to cover up all the loss. You must have preared backup for your blog from next time to recover you from any loss in future.
Sudhanshu Sharma
Best data processing company in India
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September 15th, 2008 at 2:11 am
loss all data from blog? how can that happened? Are you refering to this blog or other blog?
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Gaje Master Reply:
September 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Sad to say but I am referring to this blog. If you look at the whois of Gaje Master Blogging you will see that it says that it has been up since 2007 but there aren’t post that date back that far. I was actually working on my blog and had the site open when it crashed and everything was deleted. I didn’t back it up like I was planning to do. I learned my lesson, always back up your stuff before opening it up.
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September 16th, 2008 at 3:20 am
its scary to know such things can happened in the blog. Is it anything to do with the web hosting? What were you using back then?
tell me how to back it up? as I have a new domain blog.
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Gaje Master Reply:
September 16th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I was using Yahoo and I do not recommend them for hosting. I now use godaddy but plan to switch to hostgator next year. You can back it up by using wordpress backup plugin or you might be able to use your hosting providers backup service, many of them now offer this. Yahoo doesn’t have a very good support team and their hosting is outrageous compared to other companies.
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September 16th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I am using Shann host.
Wordpress backup plugin? my domain the http://www.heart random dot com is using wp. is it auto has the plugin already?
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September 27th, 2008 at 3:02 am
My goal now is to win the $25 in commenting.
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September 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I hope my goal will succeed soon
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September 29th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Many people that I know aren’t sure about their goal. I think that’s okay as time will tell!
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
now I almost lose my goal I must be active to achieve my goal
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
current goal is to win this contest in commenting.
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
how tough can that be right?
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
you know to achieve a goal, you need friend and family to encourage you.
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
anyone in your family that encourage you gaje master
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
my family do support me to do blogging
I love that!
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September 29th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
without them I don’t think I would be able to do any of this.
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