Suggestions for getting traffic flowing to a new blog?

[HowlingWulf]

Originally Posted by Mr Spock

I would totally ignore the so called blog directories , their traffic is minuscule. I submitted my blog to LL that I submit fs to and got way more traffic.

I'm also leaning this way. When you're first listed, you're on the main page and/or main category page and get lots of traffic. But very soon you drop down as more blogs are added. Soon they're linking to your blog from page 21 and geting 0 traffic while still linking back to their main url.
So it's good in the beginning for quick traffic and incoming PR links, but after a couple months it's trade value dwindles....