Funny, I have done nothing since I posted to this thread yesterday, and today I got over 20 hits from Yahoo.
The real key to attracting more tageted traffic is to rank within the top 5 in the SERPs for the big three search engines for your primary keywords/phrases. You can also advertise on high profile websites that have thousands of visitors a day in hope to receive extra site traffic.
Do keyword research when writing your blog articles. Put the top performing keyword that bests describes what your article is about at the beginning of the title. Look for page competition of less than 1,500 and a minimum number of searches of 100 in Overture. You will stand a better chance at ranking high on these types of terms.
Good content, quality backlinks , try the yahoo answer and question, and yahoo 360.yahoo.com/. You can post your blog to 360. Yahoo loves the title, description and keyword of a site.