One of the things that you might do to get yourself some traffic is to grab a free linklist or CJ script and set up some trades with other webmasters. You can then make a small investment and get some traffic poured into your site then live off the residual traffic from your link lists or CJ's for a while.
I think that WizDom is offering blocks of 404 traffic from his freehost, something like 20K uniques for a hundred bucks.
Just a thought, but in any case, good luck and welcome to the adult webmaster family. Don't let the grind get you down. Believe in what you are doing, and don't let anyone affect your positive outlook.
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