Gaining traffic from search engines works for the long term. But to make that happen you have to create quality return links to your blog and also your blog should have quality (useful) unique content. With quality content published, your blog will get links naturally and hence traffic grows naturally. My personal advice, don't spend too much time in creating links instead spend that time to create quality content. May be not today but for sure in the near future you will get more traffic (and also increases day-by-day).
Submit articles to Ezinearticles and Articlesbase and you'll get instant traffic. Make sure to write and submit articles that are keyword focused.