Here is a screenshot of what I have been able to achieve within less than a month with a new domain . As you see I have got 1/4th million pageviews and all the traffic has been from Google . I didn't got even 1 person from any other site . So what did i wrote on my site ? I just wrote what everyone was writing about and that build up my traffic . The more you write the more traffic you would get is what I have seen . Where you guys need to focus on ? Whenever you write something try to get it indexed faster . Write Regularly . What I have found .... Commenting on other people's site is a total waste of time . Google Effect seems better than Digg Effect . Old sites do have a better ability to get themselves ranked better but still there is plenty of space on page1 of search results . Smartly place your link in your own posts so that if someone rips your post you get a backlink . There are lots of people who still dont know whats difference between ads and links . Dont focus on ranking for just 1 keyword and that too rank 1 , its tough . Ranking for 3000 keywords on page 2 is far easier . Using Google Search is a good option if you have a lots of traffic from search engines .
Or link to your other related sites. I have found this an excellent way to get backlinks from many sites to many of my sites. There are loads of lazy people out there, in fact I have one site that scraps one of my sites entirely, but considering the amount of backlinks and the traffic I get from there I don't care, as Google knows I'm the original writer. How do I know? Well, my pages rank and his don't.
Not always. I mean it depends. My few sites on breaking news topics get's lots of traffic from digg. But my other site are not so lucky. So it just depends. BWT can you tell me the genre of your site.
Well that is just luck, it is not guaranteed to do the job, if you are lucky then you can get the so called GOOG effect, but what matters is what are your chances!!
My new site badarticle.com is get about 100 pv a day, I also done backlinks and asked for review, and now rank ok on article rewrite and article rewriter and some other keywords, but the problem is, not really so many people search about it. So, what niche is your site?