Improve Your Blogging Experience With A Blog Success Wheel

A flat tire doesn’t roll very well, although it’s an easy fix. But what do you do when your blog doesn’t seem to be rolling the way you want it to?

Take this quiz to find out which areas of your blog need your attention.

What is your level of fulfillment (not the amount of time you’re dedicating, but how satisfying it is) for each important area of your blog? Give each area a score from 1 to 10, with 1 meaning not fulfilled at all and 10 meaning totally fulfilled.

Now divide a circle into enough slices for each part to represent one of your blogging efforts, and color in each slice to indicate how fulfilled you are in that area. The very center of the circle indicates a rating of 0, and the outer edge indicates a rating of 10.

In my example I’ve labeled the areas as comments, traffic, monetization, organization, subscribers, and posting. Depending on your own blogging goals, you might designate different areas of importance.

Draw a line along the outer edge of each section at the level you rated it. Ideally, your circle would have a perfectly round outer edge somewhere around the line for “10″, but for now your circle might be fairly lopsided.

What would it take to make each of the areas feel like a 10? Answering this question will help you decide where your blog is less than it could be and where you need to take action and make improvements. Once you know where the problems are, you can make a plan to fix them.

If one area scored particularly low, your wheel might look more like a flat tire. But at least you know exactly where you need to put your first efforts and patch the hole.

Over time, this Blogging Success Wheel will serve as a measuring stick to help you determine your progress, growth, and fulfillment level in the most important areas of your blogging effort.