Don't quit when tomorrow could be the break through.

I'm told it can take 6 months to gain traction with the search engines. Submitting a site map can make it happen a bit sooner

It absolutely takes time. Don't worry at all that you don't have much traffic yet. All the successful sites start at zero too!

I watch Google Analytics all the time too even though I know I shouldn't. It gives me great motivation when I see a few organic visitors every day now though! That can be all it takes to make sales depending on how good your conversion rate it and how good your keywords are.

It is interesting to see what is working by looking at where the visitors come from on Analytics. Are they coming from social media or organic searches or referrals (from backlinks on other sites) or directly from WA perhaps?

What posts are they going to? Then I can see on Amazon how many clicks I get (if any) each day and how many sales (if any). I can see how much time people spend on different posts, see which posts are found through organic searches and on and on.

Google Analytics provides us all with the affirmation and feedback we need to feel that our labors are bearing some fruit. You're right about it being an obsession....to the point of distraction. We're not writing for google, but for our readers. I look at GA sometimes but I'm more into the paraphrased philosophy of Field of Dreams:

If you build it, people with come.

Warren