Allison Garner

If your website is good to go, and doesn't have any bugs or issues in terms of technical SEO and development side, I suggest you solely focus on off-page SEO, since that's the only organic (unpaid) way to boost traffic to your site. You can even outreach to different blog websites to submit your link their, or to post your content for their blog.

This could be a possibility too: This one is more common in websites that are more than a few years old. Google has stopped obeying noindex rules in robots.txt files as of September 1, 2019. If your robots.txt file was created before that date, or contains noindex instructions, you’re likely to see those pages indexed in Google’s search results. The solution to this problem is to implement an alternative ‘noindex’ method. One option is the robots meta tag, which you can add to the head of any web page you want to prevent Google from indexing.

Dribbble and Behance is a great way to showcase your work. In order to market yourself, you need to show people what you can offer. Only then you will get leads and opportunities for work.