There are lots of ways to get publicity, traffic and comments for your blog… If you’re looking for a little publicity, you can do any (or all!) of the following things.

1. Submit your blog for a BlogBuzz … it’s easy and fun to do.

2. Comment in the posts, and I’ll visit your blog and leave at least one comment!

3. Drop your Entrecard on my blog, and I’ll see yours. This also appears on my blog in the sidebar where you can get your entrecard widget placed!

4. Drop your article in one of my carnivals and see the linkback in the next edition.

5. Linking: Do link to me, and I’ll surely link back to you.

6.  Buying an advertisement on this blog is also very effective. The most effective ads are in fact those little text ads on the sidebar which can create clickthrough rates in excess of 3% gross.

7. I do offer banner ads for those who would like them, too. Please enquire for rates.

8. You can also be featured in my TopSpots section if you wish.

9. There are also lots of other ways I like to work with bloggers, advertisers and others looking for publicity so do stick around! Take part as you wish, and thank you for reading InvestorBlogger Dot Com.

I’ve got three great new toys that I’m playing with… in no particular order, they are …

Windows LiveWriter

This is a wonderful plugin able blogger companion. It allows you to create, edit and upload posts with all the modern paraphernalia that go with blogging. The only downside I can see is that it REQUIRES XP SP2 and above, and will not run on older computers. Which is a pity. I tend NOT to upgrade unnecessarily.

LiveWriter: image of the interface.

In fact, I’m writing this post in LiveWriter at the moment. And it is so much easier to use than most other blogging companions, and much more powerful than Flock’s inbuilt blogger application.

WordPress 2.6

Yes, despite my prognostications about upgrading, I did decide to try the install (after taking the usual precautions) on Obblogatory. Here are some screenshots, I’ve only used it a little but some personal notes:

• 1. It upgraded easily, and quickly;
• 2. It seems a lot faster than I remember;
• 3. Finally I can delete unused plugins!

This image highlights the active vs. inactive plugins list… much neater… and you can delete them just there, too!

Oh, what was that third toy!?

FireFox 3.0

Nearly forgot Firefox 3.0.1 but isn’t that old hat now? Seems like just last week I was downloading that tool.

This is definitely an improvement over version 2.0.14, really. Lots of things seem slicker, faster and easier to use. I know it’s a bit bigger than FF2.0 but I found the browser faster to display my sites, easier to manage bookmarks and (despite niggles with some plugins) generally a better more stable browser.

Now, isn’t that how all tech products should be? Making life easier, more reliable and simpler!… What do you think?