Making money online can be hard and fustrating... I know
I had a look at Lisa's site a while ago and she helped me learn abit about making and hosting websites. Using freewebs was considered to be hopeless but in the end if you havn't got money you do almost anything to get it... Right? yes well there are a few ways of getting traffic that i found really helpful.
Register with Bebo or Myspace
If you join one of these as a member other people want to hear about your life etc. so you let them know and you also post comments on their page so when they read them they go to your page and look for things that could represent you...yes you.... they might look for what kind of template you use, if it is colorful or nicely set out then they might think its a cool site so the let their friends know then their friends come along and say wow. If you leave a links in your comments to other people they will see it and anyone who will go to their page... are you catching on by now? The trick is to find who gets the most traffic through their bebo or myspace page in a day yes you can monitor this.. go to their site in the morning and record the amount of visitors then go to their page in the afternoon and record the amount of visitors and yer so on... But if you find a page that will attract alot of traffic in a day say 1000 - 2000 people you have a chance, Post your link in a comment on their site and say something nice about them so they wont delete it, then you have advertised your site for free.
This got me 100 - 200 people visit my site a day and i only posted my link in 3 peoples pages.
You really need to make a site to target the right market. eg. make a site about games, cars, money, etc. and people from myspace and bebo will like what they see and tell more people about it.
Trust me it works... i set up a site about a week ago and it has almost had over 2000 visitors
i knew something was working so i kept trying to find what my audience would like and i found that making money from anything on the net attracts people aged 10 - 25