Realistic traffic for a Tech Blog?

Hi there,

I run a tech blog that currently gets around 500 hits/day. I've started to post regular with maybe 3-5 post per day at around 200-300 words which is typical for a technology news site.

I've also been building a social network on twitter and digg. I've noticed the traffic increasing and hopefully when the income starts to increase I can hire more people to write for the blog.

I've never owned a high traffic site before and was wondering what kind of traffic I should be aiming for or what kind of goal I should set myself? I see loads of tech blogs in google news and read from loads everyday... what kind of traffic do those sites get?

I know these are probably questions that can't really be answered but if anyone who has any experience in this field or owns a successful blog could have an input it would be great!

Best Regards,
Philip

i just started a blog in a popular niche and although its not exact i used compete(DOT)com to get a general idea of how much traffic other blogs in my niche where getting

stansmith said:

i just started a blog in a popular niche and although its not exact i used compete(DOT)com to get a general idea of how much traffic other blogs in my niche where getting

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Cheers, I never knew such a site existed!