The thing that bugs me about this is you admitted that you really didn't get good amounts of traffic with your personal development site. So what you're going to do is show people how to get good traffic, all the while using yourself as a success story I assume.
The problem I see with this is one of the main reasons you'll get a lot of traffic (if you do) is because your readers are interested in the topic of building lots of traffic. It's not a huge deal, except your readers can't go out and have the same kind of success unless they copy you. It's kind of like Steve Pavlina. He has done some neat things in the past, but he admits that his game development business wasn't the success he had hoped for. Now he uses his website as a success story, but he was only able to do that by telling people how to be successful. And it seems like a large majority of users on this site are choosing the same topic as Steve including you. It's not a zero sum game, but it can get crowded...
I don't want to be so cynical about it, but this seems to be a very popular trend in the field (Robert Kiyosaki supposedly made most of his money through speaking, not real estate). My main advice is just to provide your audience with tips and strategies that are easily replicable even if they don't choose a topic such as yours. Try the traffic strategies on your other site to see if they work there. And please be brutally honest if you portray yourself as a success story.
I didn't mean to be so negative about your idea. It's definitely going to be a popular topic that could help a lot of people. I sure could use some help building traffic. It seems like I really have no returning visitors and even with advertisements I purchased, my traffic isn't growing much. I know some of the reasons for this, but I don't really understand it completely. Good luck!
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