The biggest thing you need is patience. You can work full-time on building traffic and have the best content, but for most people traffic will grow way slower than they'd like. Even among the few blogs that seemingly 'blow up' overnight, it's not something that happens in a week, and there's still a long ways to go from 'blowing up' and getting a rank of 70,000 in three months, to getting traffic to an under 10000 Alexa rating. You gotta think in terms of months, quarters, and years, not days or weeks.
It's the way things are, even the best ideas take a while to reach everyone. There are tons of hugely popular blogs and sites out there that I've never even heard of. If I haven't heard of them yet, imagine how hard it is for a little site to get going.
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