How Long Did It Take To Build Your Audience?

[ManAboutTown]

I began my site several weeks ago. It's an online magazine updated once a week, and the number of visitors slowly keeps growing.

Out of curiosity, I contacted blogads.com and they said your site needs to have at least 1,000 unique visitors a day before they will consider signing you up. At this point, I've got 1/10th that number.

How fast or slow did you increase your number of visitors? I'm more interested in straight, factual stuff - not necessarily how you did it, unless you want to say.

Is 1,000 unique visitors per day a magical kind of number? Or 10,000? 100,000? I know it depends on what kind of site you have, but I'm new to this and just trying to understand how the Internet world works from the inside.

Thanks

[mdean]

You could probably do that in a week if you want to spend a fortune on pay per clicks for every imaginable term related to your site. It took us 2 years to get to 1000 visitors per day with a mix of pay per clicks, organic listings, link exchanges, etc.