An easy way to improve traffic which I hardly see is submitting your feed url to a news aggregation website. This site gets the title of your stories and sometimes summary and then link back to you to get the full story.

I average 500 views per story on my blog www.arsenaleffect.com just from arsenalnews.net.

For those that run football blogs, check www.kicknews.net. There is also www.naijasites.com.ng which is for strictly Nigerian sites and blogs. Then if you can get on www.newsnow.co.uk, you are game.