Hey Jimmy,
I also use wordpress. It is the best blogging platform in my eyes. It is so easy to get indexed with google. I have opened a sporting fan website with a blog. The blog is doing better in the google index then the main site. lol
Best ways to get traffic is technorati.com, mybloglog.com and not forgetting the old proven way... comment on related blogs. They will provide link backs. Then also get talking to people who have related blogs and get yourself on there blog roll also add them to yours.
Google Blogs have a ping service, wordpress will contact google blogs when you make a new post. And update the index. Sometimes it can appear within minutes. Technorati also have a ping service and with in minutes your new posts can be put out on the net for xxx,xxx people who are interested in the topic. I just looked at my stats for my personal blog and I get 76.89% from google and 14.29% from referring sites. And I didnt do much SEO. I ping Google Blogs and Technorati.
So if I was you I would stick with wordpress, check out
http://www.irelandseomarketing.com/s...earch-engines/ for tips on extra wordpress optimising tips. Then in wordpress under OPTIONS > WRITING down the bottom you will find update services put in
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping and
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 both on new lines.
Then hopefully you will start getting hits
I will add it to my blogroll. My site is a web development blog.