Bad Rush for Gold

Do you have a good enough design to present your site with? You do know that when you visit a site, a pretty messed up website can easily tear off your interest, right? The same applies to you and your visitors. Make that first impression on new visitors count that they'd like to come back a couple more times and more. If you plan to open up a new blog, don't open up with 2 articles published and just publish more eventually. Oh and of course, design does not come alone. Equip that great design with awesome content and you'll be on a good roll.

Management is an important factor with carrying the responsibility of running a blog. Manage your time well and be sure to update your site once in a while. Think of it this way, you like a site but notice no new articles for 5 days already whereas other blogs you visit have fresh content to offer. So take an extra 30mins or maybe more to squeeze out that idea and put it in writing.

Visitors of your site will definitely trust your opinions more regarding a matter you specialize in. People in the same field would easily identify if you are making any sense of what you write or simply a parrot mimicing dull content. This way, you present yourself to be, somewhat, an expert in your field and encourage readers to value your opinion highly regarding certain matters. This is an important factor in running a blog that reviews and promotes certain products.

Don't stop an a certain point. Move forward and continue in letting your site grow, not only in content, but also through reputation. Join networks and campaigns to promote your site and let it be known through more means.

...is very important. You like that traffic but don't get much of it. You end up trying to check webstats of your website every 5mins hoping there's a change of 100unique hits. Be patient. Such a number will come in time. They key here is not to give up. Continue.