Hi I'm a nubee, and I want more traffic, please help.

First I'd like to point out that Doug has a review request for their Web site already up: http://www.webmaster-forums.net/website-critique-area/help-looking-some-...

So if you want to offer a review on the site, please do it there. We'll keep this thread for answering the other questions.

Meta tags: it's difficult to know what you need to do here, have you got a Wordpress plugin for creating meta tags?
XML sitemap generator: what's the question, what do you need to know?

Meta tags aren't used that much anymore, they used to be an easy way to tell search engines what the contents of a site are. Unfortunately too many people spammed search engines using them, so now they're not given much credence. It's still worth putting something in there as every little helps, plus the description meta tag will be used as the text shown to the user in search engines.

The best way to get traffic is:

1) Through the search engines,

2) Through back links on other sites.

These 2 items are actually linked. Creating more links to your site will help google and other search engines rank you higher for certain keywords. Keywords are the words that you think people will enter to find your site.

What you will need to decide is which keywords you want to optimise for - Movies, Books, Food might not be a great choice all together as people will probably look for 1 term or ther other. But this is your choice.

Building back links can be done by asking site owners to link to your site, paying for these links or linking back in return. You can also get back links from commenting on other blogs that use dofollow comments.

If you ahve any questions please feel free to ask.

You could be difersifying your topic too much for this stage. It's good to focus on a niche because the playing field is smaller and you'll have a better chance of making a dent in the market. There are tons and tons of sites talking about movies, books, and food - what do you have to offer that's unique and different? That's one of the key things you need to think about. One idea would be to focus on two of those three topics together: food in the movies, movies about food, books about food, books about movies, movies about books etc. Ooh, here's a good one - movies that started as books (controversial since usually people have an opinion and often a negative one about the movie). Controvery is good, it draws attention and gets people talking.

Also, it's probably better to do one quality post than 2-3 lower quality posts. Work on making your content the best it can be, even if you only write one or two articles *a week*. People are looking for better quality these days and, as caffinephil said above, getting links is important for SEO. If you have good content, people will be more likely to link to you.

Your site has been up for just over one month - that is not a long time at all. Often it takes several months to get indexed by search engines.

Here are more ways to draw more traffic into your sites through link building:

Directory Submissions - targeted links at high PR directories
Blog and Forum participation - to high PR and frequently crawled sites
Social Bookmarking
Press Releases
Classified Ads
Article Marketing - submit to high PR directories, could also serve as link baits
Link Exchange - with relevant and authority sites
Link Baits - for organic linking
Etc. etc.

- Use PayPerClick Traffic
- Optimize the titles of your pages for keywords people will search for
- Create a useful, interesting web site and other sites will naturally link to it.

Thank you everyone. I've been working hard at keeping my content good. I think it is, and movies books and food are what I know best, so I was trying to keep it simple.

PayPerClick Traffic? I still would like more advise so if your reading please leave a few thoughts.
Thanks
Doug-
www.moviesbooksfood.com

Your blog is only one month old. 100 visits a day is actually pretty good for a site that old.