Competition is so low but I don`t have any traffic yet

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Rick Orford: Can’t afford backlinks? Are you kidding? In less than one year, I got 7k backlinks- for free… for a personal finance blog!!
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Rick Orford thanks for your response sir, what strategy did you use and what type of links did you get? Someone said social profile links, foundational and web 2.0 Links are of no value, is that right? Thank you for your response once again Sir.
  
  
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  Rick Orford: Sadat Rayid Odowa the only links that are valuable are the ones that are hard to get. Adding a link to a web2.0 is like UGC. As for how did it do it? Build relationships… that’s all
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Rick Orford then it`s really hard.
  
  
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  Rick Orford: Sadat Rayid Odowa no, it takes work.
  
  
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  Ammon Johns: Backlinks that you can buy are almost the very worst backlinks possible to get. They have value ONLY for the traffic they can deliver, and even then, only if some of that traffic converts, or perhaps gives you a genuine link.
  
  I say *almost* the worst because the absolute worst are links you can place for yourself in comments, forums, etc. If you can find these sites and recognize them as easily usable for spam, I absolutely guarantee you that the hundreds of brilliant scientists working at Google were able to find them too. They pass zero value unless they drive traffic, and the chances are far less for that, since generally any visitors to those sites are only other spammers, and people have learned quickly that any links posted lead to crap nobody would ever link to based on quality.
  
  And yet, genuine people link to genuine stuff all the time. They link to stuff that is remarkable, that they want to share with others. If you bother to create some pages that are remarkable in some way, and that people will want to share with others, then that could be you earning those genuine, valuable links.
  
  Okay, links aside, the other issue you have is traffic.
  
  Guess why some keywords are not competitive and people are not fighting over them for the traffic. Can you guess? Yep, because they drive no traffic.
  
  Sometimes this is because the search volumes are almost nonexistent but for a few people automatically running searches via tools to see where they rank. Sometimes it is simply that while they drive a little traffic, the traffic never converts.
  
  Traffic aside, are you actually ranking in searches for any of the terms you are targeting? If so, then that tells you there is either no volume, or that what volume there is is going to one of the other sites listed. Look at the SERP in the mindset of a searcher who doesn`t own one of the sites. Is one of the listings clearly more `attractive`? Is one of the listings a better known brand?
  
  
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  Buth Main: What does it mean by "low competition"? Low competition can mean low/no traffic. Do keyword research, content audit.