Elsmarc - 10:17 pm on Jun 24, 2009 (gmt 0)

"Haha, it's not about the money. But sometimes you want to start a blog or a site and actually get people reading. I can wait, just seems a little drastic. Oh well,"

It may have nothing to do with money to you, but if you think that will rocket you to the top of the serps, think some more. There are roughly 200 million web sites on the internet and more are going online every day. Just remember you do have competition no matter what your interest or subject matter. You may just want people to read what you write, but so do about 200 million other people and companies.

To make it worse, I often find sites ranking up there at the top of the first page which were abandoned (as far as updates go) several years ago (or more). Usually they have been online for years and somehow they keep a high ranking. Probably a lot of inbound links still exist (among other things).

If I was you I would start it now and figure it will be a couple years before you have a large number of visitors on a daily basis. It's not whether you want people to read what you write, it's whether people want to read what you want to write.

Good luck!