I think I figured out how to get traffic!
After being on itch.io for a month only getting like 3-10 views per day, it suddenly started going crazy!! it's all due to the summer sale. I originally listed my game at $9.99, for the summer sale I listed it 90% and still nothing happened. Only after changing the game to be FREE did I actually get traffic, but this is still great because it got me a bunch of wishlists on steam and people to download it on android too.
After I listed the game as free, a ton of small websites and even reddit started posting links to my itch page so their users could claim the game for free.
One thing I dont understand is why so many views/downloads/plays but only 2 people left and rating and one comment, does this mean they were bots?
Did anyone else have any similar success with the summer sale?