Some questions to ask yourself:
Is there a strong demand for the content you're producing? Is your website actually needed? What would be lost if you never created it? If people don't need your website, they won't likely visit it much, and they won't refer their friends and family to it.
Why do you want more traffic? What's your motivation? Is your primary motivation to help yourself or to help others? Ideally it should be a synergistic blend of both, but helping others should be the stronger of the two.
If helping 125 people (or thereabouts) is nothing to you, it's no wonder you're struggling to build traffic. Having a positive impact on even one person via your website is a significant accomplishment -- something to be celebrated and respected. If you tell the universe, "This is nothing," or "This is a nightmare," why on earth would it send you more of that? What blogger would want to refer traffic to a "nightmare"?
When you can fall in love with helping a handful of people and feel grateful for the impact you're having, that will be the turning point which will open you to attracting all the traffic you could ever want. But if your website doesn't provide a service you're really passionate about and which you believe will benefit others, you'll silently sabotage yourself from going too far with it, since deep down you'll feel you don't deserve the traffic and that your visitors would be better served elsewhere.
Understand that a website that helps even one person is a success, not a failure. Create a website that will be of value to one, and you'll be able to attract a whole lot more ones.
Measure not your success by numbers and statistics but rather by knowing that you're serving others to the best of your ability. |