increasing traffic

Have you noticed that once you start blogging you automatically start looking at your stats and checking how many daily visitors you get, how you get them and from where they come? One of the ways to up your traffic is to be listed on relevant sites, from where you can get some referral traffic. Submitting your site to a free web directory is a good way to start, but do check to see the kind of sites they list, so that you can ensure that people will actually come to your site and that your site will fit in with the rest. No point adding your cooking site to a plumbing directory, is there?