How do you get blog hits?

I'm not much of a self promoter, never really liked doing so. But as a near invisible side show to the blogosphere, the only way I've been able to attract visitors is to put links in comments on other sites. I don't like harassing people with email (oh please link me!), either. Lately my hit stats have looked like this:



which is pretty pathetic. About a month ago I linked to myself on The Sabre, the rest of the month most of my hits were searching for "sex fist". Sorry guys, not what you're looking for.

edit: tired of getting hits for those names for no real reason

Many sites I've read have HUGE blogrolls, I guess hoping for a reciprocal link. I can only say that integrity requires me to only link sites I read, and to only heartily endorse products and/or events I use and/or attend. The Bloglines list to the right are exactly what I subscribe to. (Plus Colby Cosh, who desperately needs RSS.)

Admittedly, I don't post that often (hey, it's the offseason!). And my interests are esoteric. But really, what do you do? I'm not going to post just for the sake of posting, but I do have some worthwhile things to say. Anybody listening?