build a social media following? Then push traffic to website daily? since you can write articles, facebook, twitter etc are huge platforms for that kind of stuff.. i went into facebook because no matter what time of the day i signed on to facebook people would be on, posting and sharing all kinds of crap. So i knew i needed to be where everyone else was.. its like people stay on facebook night and day.. and im sure its the same for twitter, instagram etc. You need to put some work in.. SEO from my experience is so difficult as no one knows the exact algo of google.. and even if you have a great site etc, you would still have to outrank alot of sites.. I always see people get excited about increasing their ranking and getting to page 2 and stuff.. no one really goes to page 2. I think for an article kind of site you need a different traffic method.. maybe if you were selling products or something then SEO may be good option.. but for content sites you need alot of traffic to make bank..