You really have to be 1/2 marketer and 1/2 writer to succeed. You can write fantastic entries, but if nobody knows you exist then nobody will be reading those articles. On the other hand, if you market, but don’t write consistently interesting articles, nobody is ever going to come back. Doing both takes a lot of time and effort and it takes time for the word to spread.

The last key is persistence. There are so many quality blogs that have disappeared because the person just became frustrated that nobody was finding or reading the blog.

Even knowing these three things, it doesn’t take away the frustration of wanting your site to grow at a quicker pace.

As I mentioned before, linkworth is a nice compliment to other ad revenue streams. It doesn’t cost anything to join and it can provide a base of monthly income that you can count on if you can attract advertisers. It’s certainly worth a try as it’s free to join and like I mentioned previously, it brings in several hundred dollars a month for me on all my sites.