speedy, I don't want to add a lot of confusion to all of this, but I thought I would give you some additional information on getting traffic. You might want to keep it to refer to later.
There are a lot of ways to get traffic and different people might suggest different ways to get traffic. You need to get visitors in order to make money, so getting the right kind of traffic is very important. There are both paid and free methods of getting traffic.
I'm going to give you a link to a 5 Star thread that covers a few ways to get traffic. It doesn't cover all of the ways to get traffic. There will be some people who will feel there are other ways of getting traffic that aren't covered here and that some of those other ways are just as good or better. But this could possibly give you a few additional ideas. Here is the link
Need Advice on Getting Some Traffic