How can I grow up traffic on my web directory?

Hi. I grew DR on my directory (DR 50), but I can not grow up traffic. I studied top directories, and I concluded that most of the directories doesn't have search engine traffic. How can I grow up traffic on my web directory, if top directories generate it on other channels? What are these channels?

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