Is there a optimum minimum total amount of pages that a website must have to bring in a healthy amount of visitors? I have read that a website doesnt really take off until you reach 100 pages of content in your website, is this true? The reason why I'm asking is that one of my sites NEVER gets above 25 unqiue visitors a day. It has a healthy number of backlinks (300+) but I have only around 30 pages. If I significatly increase the number of pages of content, will my traffic go up on that alone?
There's no rules, no minimum or maximum. It obviously would be hard to talk about 100 different topics on 1 page and expect to be effectively indexed. Spend more time working on content that people would want to link to. If you have 300 backlinks, but are getting less than 25 visitors a day, it doesn't sound like those are really valuable links. As an example: I have a site which Google claims to only have 210 inbound links. Now, I know there are more than that - it's just what Google says - but to prove a point, I see 5,000-10,000 visitors a day coming from those inbound links.
Focus on Content + SEO, both. I can understand the problem as I too used to this mistake of wondering "why I am not getting traffic". You may like to check my blog post How to make site rank in Google for some tips. Give yourself more time and you should be able to see results. Focus 80% of your time on content and 20% on promotion. By the way, having 300 backlinks doesn't matter much as most of them might be pointing towards home page anyway with poor anchors
No, that "100 pages to get traffic" is not true. A site with one page can get traffic for all I am concerned. Traffic comes from quality. Give the people what they want, and they will come. Couldn't put it any easier myself.
If you are talking about the website in your signature link, I think you need to do some keyword research. I think you are just targeting keywords that don't have enough traffic. Plus you probably need more quality incoming links. 300 links really isn't very many if you want good rankings. You are probably competing with dozens of computer parts websites which all sell wireless routers. Adding more pages could help though. The more pages of unique content you have, the more keywords you can target. Plus each new page of content is another set of internal links to your important pages. Larger websites do tend to rank better than small websites, but there is no magic number for how many pages you need. So as poseidon said "Focus on Content + SEO, both". You need to keep adding new content and keep getting new links.
Having higher number of backlinks doesn't guarantee high traffic because eventually what really matters is that you have higher SERP and in large this is not affected by just the amount of backlink alone. Having 100 pages might be a good guideline, but all in all, you still want to make sure that the contents are good enough with the right keywords or else just numbers alone would not make any difference.
Keyword ranking is need to get traffics. Backlinks need to get keyword ranking and need on-page optimization. For backlinking and on-page need user friendly keywords. so first research keyword, write content and do optinization and create backlinks using targeted keywords.
Possibly this is the case. So, when everyone does their keyword research, what sorts of figures would you be looking at for a given keyword to make it worth while building a page for it? For example, research on a keyword that got say less 100 searches per day, would you build a page for this keyword? Whats are your thresholds that decide when to build a page? Would you do one on less than 20 searches a day?
As everyone said above there is no requirement for no. of pages to get traffic but it is sure that having fix niche content and more details about that is nice to get high traffic. And nore than no. of pages it is important that how much pages of your website is indexed in search engines.