You've received excellent advice and now I would like to add some advice of my own.

What I've done in order to receive more traffic is to join several social networking sites such as:

Stumble Upon
Blog Catalog
Criteo
Spicy Page

Google these names and you'll be able to find them.

Good luck to you and you'll see - you'll not only have lots of readers yourself but have a great opportunity to read others' blogs as well.

Take care,
Badthing