The Bitter-Sweet Truth About “Traffic”

Instead of writing a prologue that would start with some story from my early blogging days, or some witty anecdotes, like the one about the Buddhist monks and the woman, I thought that we could both save some time and dive right into the biggest issue when it comes to blogging.

Traffic.

I hate this word. I truly do. Traffic, SEO, statistics, and a bunch of other technological terms that make blogging feel like the sort of stuff robots are clearly going to be so much better than us at.

But my blog is called The Art of Blogging, and thus I strenuously believe there’s an art to blogging, which also means that there’s a human element, and this element is destroyed when we add such images…