How to increase Traffic to your blog...

Okay, this is mostly for me, since I'm trying to figure out how to bring traffic into my new blog... I have a lot of traffic to my website, http://www.buildyourownhouse.ca/, but I've had my site up since 2002, with massive amounts of relevant content, and varied content, so that's good, but now I need to figure out how to bring traffic into my new fancy blog...  if you have any ideas, let me know, I'm here to learn and share :)

This I found when I searched 'how do I increase the traffic to my new blog'... "To become popular in the Blogosphere takes a lot of hard work on your part. You need first to post some interesting stuff that many people want to read/see/listen/watch. You need to actively promote your blog:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42377

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=6ff81b2fdcdd3d1d&hl=en#all

Then you get the search engines involved by submitting your blog for listing:
Here are just a few:
MSN: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
Submit Express: http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.php
Technorati: http://technorati.com/tag/technorati
Yahoo: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Here is a thread on the same subject with much more details:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?fid=26dcfde0fe2c8a970004738427e3ee14&hl=en "

So I've been up all night, desperately trying to figure out how to increase traffic to my blog and my website (http://www.buildyourownhouse.ca/).  I just came across this site
http://www.smartwebby.com/website_promotion/google.asp#com, and I found it very, very useful... I followed the directions, and submitted my URLs to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl, which was fast and painless...

THEN, it got tricky... I just kept following the links until I was in Google, where I added some html code to the top of my website (but, frankly, I have no idea how to do that on this blog...dang it! I just keep muddling through, writing a lot of content, whatever happens to interest me at the moment, and hoping beyond hope that someone else -- say, a million or so other people{lol!} like it, too...), but I wish I could find someone who could show me how to do all the fancy stuff with my site.

(I had to go in and delete some stuff I wrote last night -- or, rather, I saved that sh*t to DRAFT, so I can post it,a gain, depending on how things go inn the next week, or so... lol!)