Don't get discouraged. I've been at it for a few weeks and right I'm getting an average of 20-40 visitors a day on my investing/finance blog. Almost all of that traffic has come from joining the PFBlogs.org aggregator and submitting to a blog carnival. From those two things, I've had people comment and link to my site.
I also have started getting some traffic by leaving comments on other blogs and forums like this one. Making yourself known is what helps. Don't count too much on the social bookmark items, they won't make your posts more popular. With those you are pretty much praying that someone submits your post and then praying that more people vote it up.
For me personally, I tend to be a numbers guy, meaning that I check my site stats (I use Google Analytics) almost daily to see what is going on. This is especially true for monday and tuesday after the blog carnival comes out. I also pay attention to the bounce rates and popular items. While I haven't taken action on those, I'm watching them with the goal of using that to better my site and my articles.
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