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All my visitors come from some free advertising I got long time ago and a really big time site.
It brings in enough for pay for hosting and a night out, thats it.
The thing is though, that is in 2 months (after installation, setup, and populaton of the database) my site is getting a custom made database feature which will make us SUPER unique and useful, blows all other sites in the keyword out of the water. (Just paid $1k for it through elance)
Also, although my site only has 75 articles now, It's growing at a rate of 1 articles a day, even more in the summer when I am on a relaxing vacation europe and can just sit and write for 4 months (thats the plan). By august I could end up with 600 articles approx.
On top of this my CMS (Mambo) is apparently getting completely rewritten in july and the next completely new version released in august (when I come back from vacation). I know for a fact that this rewrite will change the site structure of mambo sites (ultimated categories instead of a forced 2 tier system) so all my non-homepage links will be different.
Considering this, I know (I have PR 6) that other sites will accept my link exchange now. But should you I hold off promotion while I have a few "building" months to make my site 1000% times better and the url stable, and then promote it? Money is a issue only in the long term, I'd like ot make it now, but I am perfectly fine making it in a year even two.
Its also a time issue. I'd be better in the long run to use my limited time (21 credit this semester) to write content than to do other stuff (link exchanges, SEO, etc.. etc..) Next semester I'm only taking 15 credits and much easier classes, so I'll have more time to put it all together and make it profitable.
Any other suggestions?
