Joel Comms e Book 'Getting Started With Blogging and Google Adsense'

I recently read a Free E book by Joel Comm which was 'Getting Started With Blogging and Google Adsense'. I found it quite interesting and thought that money can be made by blogging if you can get the traffic and if you can get people back. Although i have not really made much money blogging at this stage and only have made money though other websites with adsense, i do think it is possible to make some cash. The main points that i learn from the book is how to

Increase traffic to you blog
Keep you blog interesting.

Keeping a blog interesting is not too hard. A big problem is getting traffic to your site, i found the best ways are from link exchange, search engines and comments on related blogs.

If anyone has some success stories from blogs i would love to hear them. Fill free to leave a comment or a link to an article.