http://www.themediacritics.com - we have been a week old, new posts daily and really I got a feeling that we wont get search engine traffic, any pointers? suggestions?

The problem? It's a week old!!!

6 months of promotion and you might get to see something.

So keep adding content for 6 months and cross fingers?

You could do that if you really wish to, and in 6 months be still wondering!

However you could also do some proper promotion and marketing at the same time and it will probably go a little better.

Get a few links, buy some advertising etc etc. Just like you would if it was a real shop you were opening on the high street.
Or would you just open the door and hope people just wander in?

Who gets links for a shop? What are you talking about. I would just open the door and hope people wander in, do you understand the difference between a real life business and internet business, they are 2 different things buddy. And since your a moderator, I know your going to ban me for disagreeing, so peace out.

Relax Nick....
Chris is not going to ban you just because you disagree with him.
We are adult that can take a real debate and even enjoy it, as long as everyone stays calm and polite.

What Chris wanted to say, I think, is that you should consider your web site like you would consider a real shop.
You have to tell peoples that you exists, and search engine are not the only way to do it.

So, as he recommended, try to get link back from sites related to yours, buy ad placement on relevant sites, and spread the word that you have something to add.

And on that, it's me to disagree with you.
A web site selling something and a shop in broad light are to be considered the same, and handled with the same serious attitude.
You would need to promote and maybe conclude deal with complementary shop to, if you are trying to get in a busy niche, to let peoples know you.

I, for sure, don't wander in a shop just because it's new.
I usually know where I go shopping, and as I know that I will find what I want/need there, don't look much on new shops for what I've already found.

The same with web sites.
I have a handle of "daily visited" urls, but otherwise, it's mostly what others recommend me (or if I see an ad or banner that interest me enough to click it) that will bring me on new sites.
I use search engines almost exclusively for informations, and if I don't find it in the first 3/4 seconds, I leave the site usually, trying another google result.

And if the site looks even remotly like a MFA site, with more ads than text, I don't even try to look at it.
It simply gets ignored.

Originally Posted by Nick204k

do you understand the difference between a real life business and internet business

I do!! A real life business has the goal of making a profit. An internet business - ???.

just have patience mate. just update your blog with fresh and unique contents, and get quality link partners, do social book markings and pass
your site to directories, also do yedda answers and wiki answers.

You have 15 pages indexed in Google . That's not bad for a 1st week.
Do you have any stats script running to see if the bots are spidering you regularly?

You've got your backlinks on Digg, YouTube and DP. That's a start but you should expand that.

These days it's all about unique content AND backlinks.

Originally Posted by Nick204k

http://www.themediacritics.com - we have been a week old, new posts daily and really I got a feeling that we wont get search engine traffic, any pointers? suggestions?

Hello???!!! Its only newly launch! You didnt even link build it! Start link building it, make it visible to SEs, and surely you'll get traffic from search.

Don't forget to enter your RSS feeds for even more back links.

First, if you want that google index your website, make a sitemap, a robots.txt file, install a seo plugin as Headspace 2, use Google webmaster tools, and search on google some tutorials ...