This article sums up my three months experience in blogging, and showcases my stupidity.

Three months ago, I started blogging without a single idea about what blogging meant.

Signing up for a blog at Blogger was the easy part. Choosing the name for my blog was a tougher. Believe me, it was much tougher than selecting a name for your doggie and kitty.

In the end, I decided on calling my blog Rich in Every Sense[1]. That was and still is my desire. Life is miserable if we are rich in one area, and lack in another area.

Blogging is fun. Blogging is just writing. There is no editor to reject the blog post. There is no boss to watch over the writing. There is no one to set schedule for blogging. At that time, blogging, to me, meant to write every day about whatever interested me. This blog contains more than 80 articles in 3 months' time.

The difficulty of blogging is not in the writing. The difficulty of blogging is to increase traffic flow to the blog. A new blog does not attract the attention of the search engine.

How to generate traffic became my concern. How to generate traffic is a question that many bloggers are asking. Traffic was important because I had signed up for Google Adsense. Without readers, there would not be anyone clicking on the advertisements.

I checked out the discussion threads in mylot discussion forum. There were a lot of discussions on blogging. Apparently I was not the only one having difficulties in blogging and generating traffic.

I learnt about traffic exchanges. I learnt that there were automatic traffic exchanges and manual traffic exchanges. I learnt that there were bloggers whose Google Adsense account terminated by Google for using automatic traffic exchange.

I signed up for manual traffic exchange, easyhits4u, and spent time clicking tons of websites. Further discussion with other bloggers showed that while Google did not ban the use of manual traffic exchange, Google strongly discouraged the use of manual traffic exchange.

Fortunately, the users of easyhits4u did not click on the Google advertisements in my blog, otherwise I would receive a warning or termination letter from Google.

The first lesson in blogging I learnt: Never use traffic exchange when the blog contains Google Adsense.

Since manual traffic exchange did not work, I searched again for ways to generate traffic. The next venture was to sign up for social networking forums at blogging directories.

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