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This is a great post for beginners. I am a couple months into it now and I sometimes wish I had more traffic.
For me, I try to generate traffic with comments on posts that catch my eye or seem interesting.
Thanks for the tips.
Visting via E card. Nice blog. Like the internet money making. Thanks
Ask Ms Recipe
My Site is 2 months old
and it took about 1 month for solid 150 unique visitors a day. I participate in a lot of forums, and my signature had a banner of my site, which attracted many people, according to my Site Meter’s Referral Details! (I reccomend http://www.sitemeter.com) 
Wherever you go, keep telling people about your site
The hardest part about starting up a forum, is the beginning and getting people to post!
it wasnt difficult to keep going, even though it was my first real site, I liked the experience, and I knew it would take time!
@nblufire12: 150 visitors in one month is great. Joining forums and adding your site to your signature is a great tip. I do it on Website Babble, and it brings in a few visitors a day.
I use Google Analytics since they seem to provide the most comprehensive data regarding my visitors.
Amen to this (and thanks for the plug!) If I had a dime for every email or forum post where someone wants to give up after a month or so, I’d be rich. Rome wasn’t built in a day, right?
Great post.
Great post – it can be so frustrating for newbies (like myself) and it’s great to get the encouragement to stick with it.
I’ve had my domain since 2006, but I only started my current focus in late November 2007. I joined Entrecard in December as you did. My traffic mostly comes from StumbleUpon and Entrecard at the moment.
It did take a while to generate traffic, but I seem to have hit a good posting rhythm and people are checking out my site. Subscribers and comments are both doing well, which is good to see.
I think that new bloggers need to take a bit more time when setting up their site and not just jump straight in. Careful planning and writing a few good posts at the start is important before any promotion is done. Entrecard has a restriction on the minimum number of posts (hence the “at least 5 posts” comment you made). This makes sense – why promote a site before you’ve got any content?
So, work out the kinks first, and promote your site when you’re ready to share it. I think some people get a bit too eager and they send their link to anyone who will listen to them – and they’ve got nothing on their site. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
@erica: I believe it can be frustrating starting out creating Web sites. We’ve all been there, and it can be difficult to keep the motivation going.
@Ben: I have visited your site several times, and like what you have had to say.
You provide some good points regarding planning and writing before promoting. It is important to concentrate on your content in the beginning, especially before promoting.
Amazing motivating article.You know..my Video blog was get 200Visitor/day But google slap it (including it page rank) and no one visiting my site from SE. it happen last month. But like U said..”Never give up.” Now..I already set 10-20 visitor/day and my site already indexed at google again. I will try Ur tips and hope I can bring my old traffic back
Great article! I just began my humor blog a month ago, and it is going slow, but your article was encouraging and beneficial and helpful for an up-and-comer blogger such as myself. Thanks and keep the great content coming!