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You are showing up in the SERPs.  The number of visitors that you get will be determined by your position and how well your title tag elicits clicks. Your site would not be a good one to offer "free beer" in the title tags but if you can discover words and phrases that elicit clicks then your traffic will go up. Also, as your site becomes better know you will have likes and links pointing towards it and people will start asking for it by name.   As these things occur your rankings will rise. I write an article and a couple months later it appears on the second page... but a couple years later it can be #1 or #2.  If you can produce content that is "Best-On-The-Web" in your niche it generally rises to a nice position.

Thank you for the encouragement, Rob. I am really glad I posted this question, and I think I just have to chalk it up to "this is odd" I have checked my site out at Google webmaster tools, and also at Bing's webmaster tools - and with SEO quake -- I do read a lot. I can get traffic -- I see my own searches show up. But most days it is zero, other than that -- yesterday there were three other search visits, and I am pretty sure at least one was in response to this question. It seems as though it's just "bad luck" -- my content needs to be better -- it isn't that bad, I don't think  : ) I thought to as this question mostly to see if there weren't some glaring thing I missed about SEO -- but I think, in the end, that I do need to keep plugging away... Thank you!!