I usually get about 5-7 new subscribers a week. Not all of them are humorists, but I'd say 85% are.

@wordsofdan, it's your blog, have fun, be yourself, numbers will come!

But you want to try and target blogs in your niche for maximum retention. For example, I write a humor/satire blog, and will typically spend an hour each morning surfing through the Humor tag page and commenting on interesting/funny stories. I spend ZERO time looking at photography blogs, because a) I don't find them all that interesting and b) it is unlikely that people that run those blogs would find mine worthy of subscribing to.

Best of luck to you!

Here are 25 basic steps to take to increase traffic to your blog:
1. Structure a reader and search engine friendly blog;
2. In blogging content is king create unique, high quality content so publish fresh content frequently;
3. Learn basic SEO so you can use keywords effectively and apply basic SEO to your headlines, blog and posts;
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results.
4. Make your blog posts look professional;
5. Create at least 4-6 pillar posts and continue to create pillar posts;
Pillar posts are also referred to as flagship content. Pillar posts are comprehensive posts that offer great value to readers as the contents are timeless in nature. They define you as having authority in the niche you blog in.
6. Select and link to appropriate anchor text;
7. Leave meaningful comments on related blogs and encourage comments on your own blog;
8. Develop relationships with other bloggers so you can build a blog readers’ community around your own blog;
9. Support the blog centered communities on related blogs by commenting on them and promoting posts from them;
10. Link to authoritative sources in your posts;
11. Deep link to your earlier related posts in your new posts;
12. Assign appropriate categories and tag your posts with care;
13. Link to related authoritative blogs in your blogroll;
14. Provide RSS feeds for subscribers;
RSS (Rich Site Summary or really simple syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
15. Having a well designed theme is important, evaluate your theme for effectiveness, and if required, create a new header, make improvements or replace your theme and reduce page loading time;
16. Avoid cluttering your blog with widgets that lack reader value and slow page loading time;
17. Buy your own domain and domain mapping;
18. Verify your blog with the three big search engines.
19. Get organized, use an online to do list by developing a blogging workflow;
20. Join social networks and social media sites like Twitter to promote your blog posts;
21. Promote your blog through Facebook and use social networks, online groups, and selected directories;
22. Develop a social media time management strategy and stick to it;
23. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival;
24. Become a guest blogger on sites with higher page rank than your own site.
25. Create newsletters and/or ebooks for your subscribers.

I had 0 views for the first 3 weeks until I read this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/03/10/blogging-tips-tag-to-increase-traffic/

Once I added tags and started finding other blogs I enjoyed and commented on them I started getting traffic and more importantly a community. I had to define why I wanted traffic in the first place.

@ladyyt Interaction with other bloggers is something I will be looking to do!

Simple enough?