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Do you recognize me? Ok if not, I am still working my way around this site to introduce myself to everyone.

Question for the masses or anyone that wants to answer: My site went live early february 6 to be exact.  So a little over a month ago.  What kind of traffic should a site this new be seeing at the moment or better yet if you are relatively new what kind of traffic are you seeing?

Along with the traffic, what kind of effort are you putting into your blog? 2 hrs a day, 4 hrs?

I guess there is no right or wrong answer it just like to guage myself amongst my peers.  Which is probably why I do benchmarking as part of my job.  Analyzing labor productivity as compared to our peers.

Any assistance is appreciated, even if a shhh you never ask that question…so that I can file that in there with my never ask a woman her age

From my experience: I joined Yakezie from day one. My traffic fluctuated from 25-50 a day (thanks to Yakezie!!!). Everything depends on what you are doing: carnival submissions, guest posting, networking and commenting. And don't forget to write good content! So, I'd say if you are writing and posting on a regular schedule, networking, and guest posting, you will see your traffic grow every month.

There is no formula that can determine what's normal and what's not for a new site.

It takes time to build your presence on-line. Be patient.

I put in a lot of hours weekly, I'd say about 15-20 if not more. Writing takes a lot because English is my third language, so I take time to write.

Email me if you have any questions.

I have been wondering the same, so thanks for starting this thread. 

I average about 25-35 a day.  I wish I had more, but can't complain.  I work and go to school full time, so it can be hard to find time. 

Congrats on today's #'s. 

For the first month or so I was only averaging 10-25/day and that was mostly old friends and family.

I was able to get a big mention by MoneySavingMom in my 2nd month and did two giveaways of a few popular books (Quitter by Jon Acuff & Money Saving Mom's Budget by MSM). Those 3 things helped things a lot and I now average 80-150/day after 3 full months of blogging.

Honestly, I'd say I put in at least 4 hours a day into the blog. It was 1-2 before joining Yakezie but taking time to network and read others' blogs has taken quit a bit of commitment.

Hope that helps! It sounds like you're on a great path though. I think of growing readers more as an exponential graph as opposed to linear. As you get started it just takes time for people (and the search engines) to realize you're there.

I have been averaging 10-25 visitors a day with spikes up to 50. I am really surprised by this as it is only my second week of blogging.

My blog is a year and a half old but I've only really started taking it seriously and developing it starting December. I can't remember what my traffic was at the beginning, but since I started working on it it's improved by a LOT. I remember before December I had about 100 site visits a day, give or take (80-150). I now average about 250-400 depending on the day, but it fluctuates and has been climbing every month so I'm hoping I can get up to 350-600 by the end of April (if not more).  

I spend a lot of time blogging, tweeting, commenting, editing, development, Yakezie-ing, connecting and emailing. I start off my morning with about 1.5 hours, and end my day with about the same amount (not including writing blogs). On my weekends, I spend anywhere from 4-10 hours blogging and doing blog related activities. 

It's not easy, but I've been seeing HUGE returns on my time with traffic, connections, etc. I genuinely enjoy it, though, so it makes it a lot easier to spend the time at it. 

I do not know how much time I spend on my blog. I would probably say about two hours, but this time is spent doing things that are enjoyable and I like to use my time like that.

I am getting around 50 on a good day and 25 on a not so good day. The strange thing I have noticed is my best traffic days are on the day or two after I post, not when I put a new one up. Does this happen to anyone else and are there any explanations?

YEs it happens to me.   I noticed that my older posts are gettting more comments than my new ones.  Weird but whatever Ill take it right now!

My new site is one month old today and I get around 20 – 30 views a day on average. All referral traffic and some direct. No SE traffic so far barring 5 or 6 (in a month) in total. 

SE traffic gradually increases and what I have seen with OCAAT is, the SE traffic increases in time throttles.

3 months, 6 months, 1 year…don't know beyond this but I read Sam mentioning in the forum/blog that SE traffic gets a jump at 1.5 to 2 years stage. 

So the blogs in infancy, have to rely on referral traffic alone, so keep on commenting, rounduping and carnivaling. 

I started with traffic of about 20 visitors a day. I think all 20 was my mom but today I have about 400 to 500 a day. It's all about nurturing your blog and the community. When you do it… do it with heart and you won't go wrong.