Listen to all the advice above. You need to be patient and persistant. Focus on the traffic and keep building your blog, add content and always work on how it looks.
you should have a statcounter on your site,this will show how many you get unique and regular visitors.This keeps a record of your visitors and you will get an idea about the type of traffic too.
if u want to earn money then get traffic as much as u can.i am earning daily 10$ Regular from my mesothelioma blog and www.fun2chill.com
I too want to earn around 5-6 doller a daY BUT traffic is not increasing, I am around 4 months old blogger but only 30 plus vivitors a day, how to increase ?
I write at AdSense revenue sharing platform Hubpages. The domain is very good so it's easy to create organic traffic.
add fresh content after every 2-3 days and also submit your site link on digg and twitter reddiff it will incerase your traffic like anything.
this guide here might help you, http://awebmastersblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-successfully-increase-your.html