Below are some tools that will help you increase traffic to your blog. These tools help not only market your blog, but keep a steady stream of new visitors and help you to see where you may need to improve.
Google Analytics - Track how your blog does and what your visitors are doing as well when the come to it.
Technorati Tag Generator - Incorporate this piece of code for keywords to use at the end of your post to tag your post for keywords that will increase finding your blog in Technorati.
Mybloglog - Great social tool to use to meet new bloggers and find those with like interest. This can help you build traffic and get more exposure to your blog.
Pingoat - Ping your blog to let all the services that share blog content to the masses and help make them popular.
Aizattos related posts - Use related posts on your blog so that your readers can have other options of things similar to read, or just use it as bait to something else you want them to go to.