Here are 5 simple tips to make your blogging more effective:

1. Use a good blogging platform. Don’t use blogging scripts that offer less number of features. Go for the ones that are more popular and have a huge following. If you have any problems with the blogging script, you can get more information online and solve the problem. I would recommend WordPress. WordPress is free, open source and there are hundreds and thousand of blogs running on WordPress.
2. Use a good theme and change it often. This will keep your blog ever young.

I am writing this post using Zoundry. In the past, I was a fan of Qumana. Now, I am considering to move to another client. There are many disadvantages associated with Qumana:

• Slow startup: It is based on Java and so it is very slow.
• Frequent crashes: Quamana is crashing very frequently. May be this is a bug or something.
• Double posts: This is a big problem. If you try to edit posts once they are published, you will get double posts. This is definitely a bug.

Here are 10 tips to make your wordpress blog more effective:

• Use a custom theme. There are many free themes available. Use one of them. If you want your blog to be more unique, create your own theme or have someone to create one. This will add individuality to your blog.
• Use a theme that occupies the whole screen. This will maximize your blog’s advertising potential. You will lose online real estate if you use narrow columned themes.
• Use a custom favicon that suits the theme of your blog. For example, if you blog is about nutrition, use an apple or something related.

How to ping your blog:

• Write your post and publish it. Don’t forget to use appropriate tags at the end of the blog.
• Go to websites that provide free pinging service and ping your blog.
• If you use Wordpress or a desktop blogging client, your post will be pinged automatically. Also, you can select any ping service you want.

I use www.pingoat.com and www.pingomatic.com. You can also use the same.

Once you ping, blog search engines like Technorati come to know that you have updated your blog. They will index your site and categorize your blog according to the tags you have used. Pinging is an effective traffic generating tool. Usually, you will see traffic instantly from blog search engines.

Writing press releases is an 100% ethical way of getting backlinks. It is not rocket science, and it is not as difficult as it seems. However, it is very important to write attractive content and optimize it. it is also important to direct the press release to an appropriate landing page.

Here are some websites that can be helpful:

www.prweb.com
www.prfee.com
www.prnewswire.com

Once you write a press release, many news sites will pick it up. People will read the news articles and if they find them interesting, they will visit your site. Webmasters and bloggers may write reviews on your site and this way you will get more backlinks and visitors. Writing a proper press release will see a sudden surge in the traffic to your website.