Have you done any one on one partnerships with other sites? Meaning you contact them and discuss a possible link exchange? And I'm not talking about the ones where you just place a link to them on a page on your site full of other links and vice versa. Those are worthless.
I'm talking about actually looking through someone' site (with a related theme of course) and finding a good place to recommend your site on their page and in return you recommend them on your site in return.
For example say you have a section/page on math help and you find a really good site that helps teach kids math. Contact that Webmaster and show them your page and mention how their site is a good fit for the article. And in return you find a good place on their site where your site would fit.
I've only done about 7 or 8 of these but if you can get a few more permanent links from some related web sites that will also help you out.
Have you joined SBI's Value Exchange yet?
I can't remember if we talked about this before, but I've been driving quite a bit of traffic lately commenting on blogs. And when I say comment I don't mean "Hey, nice post." I carefully craft my comments and try to comment on something specific the article mentions. Or even if you disagree with the author, that's a great way to get some attention to your comment.
I use Forums and Yahoo Answers too but in addition I do/use the following quite regularly...
1) Blog Commenting
2) BlogRush (blog promotion service)
3) Technorati (blog promotion service)
4) Blogging more frequently... at least 3 times per week (Google LOVES this!)
5) Creating YouTube videos (credibility booster!)
6) Digg.com
7) StumbleUpon.com (been driving some decent traffic here lately)
8) Adding new site content
9) Facebook Groups (somewhat)
10) MySpace (somewhat)
11) The list goes on...
Whew! Yeah it's a lot of work but that's really how you have to work it out here and it pays off over time.
Also are you getting any feedback from your visitors yet? One great way to improve your content and connect with your audience is to listen to what others need. About 30% of my content on 2create has come from people asking me how to do various things via email. So when I get a lot of emails on one topic I just create a page. Then I email the person if I felt the idea was a good one. People appreciate that and often turn into regular visitors.
Another thing is do you feel involved with your niche? What I mean by that is when you go to the forums are you developing any e-relationships with the visitors or are you just posting and then leaving?
Now of course I don't mean giving out your phone number and setting up lunch dates, etc.
but so much about success these days is networking. When I was in Vegas at the Affiliate Summit last week the people making 7 figures online all said that they did one thing very well... NETWORK.
And I have to admit I need to get better at this myself.
They subscribe to all the top blogs and websites in their niche, comment on them frequently, and get involved with others who have similar sites. And with all the stay at home mom sites there has got to be some great groups out there for people with homeschooling sites, etc.
You could become a guest contributor for a blog. I'm actually thinking of opening this up on my blog now that the traffic is growing. If you can write and be featured on another stay-at-home mom's blog then you get in front of an entirely new audience.
These are all a bunch of little things. But they add up over time. Building traffic takes months and for some even a year or two (of course it varies from site to site).