I've been making a pretty good disaster of my on-line venture for well over a year now, and need some real help. I seriously need to get things right- I've been putting way too much time and effort in for having such a pathetic result.

All of my visitors so far have come from either a safelist or traffic exchange (that pretty much sums up how my sales have been).

I've been struggling to maintain 10 blogs (for each of my sites), having been told it would help with SEO, but I'm thinking that's old information, as it hasn't helped much.

I stuck it out, thinking "OK, it's a slow process, but it'll pay off eventually." The blogs themselves still don't get much traffic. I need to fix it.

I have 2 questions for now:

1. Is it better to focus on one blog, or to have a few that pertain to the topic?

2. How in the world, exactly, do you set up the whole network/link/ back link/RSS thing?- which I'm sure might have a lot to do with the fact that my blogs seem invisible.

In any material I've read, I'd been told "you need to do it" but left out HOW to actually set it up.

Pretty much, what do you do with a blog (besides posting) to draw traffic?

Also, I have basically the same sort of questions in regard to social sites, seeing as how they have blogs too.