Join A Blog Carnival Get More Traffic
If you own a blog, chances are you would like grow your traffic. A blog carnival will help get more traffic and it’s a fun way to increase your profile, get in depth info on the subject of the carnival and meet some very interesting people.
A blog carnival is like a magazine, published to a regular schedule and dedicated to a single topic. Each edition of the carnival is a blog post which contains links to submitted blog articles which are on topic.
When someone wants to organize a carnival they post details of the topic on their blog and invite submissions. Contributors write their articles and submit them to the host.
The host collects submissions, then posts links to them, along with notes if desired. The collection of links is usually spread across a number of posts.
In this way the host ends up with a tightly focussed resource, summarising a current topic and the contributors get links (and hopefully) traffic back to their blog.
To see a real example of how this works, check out the Problogger Top 5 Group Writing Project and here are the resulting submissions.
More Info:
Wikipedia : Wikipedia on blog carnivals
10000birds.com : A short article on how to host a blog carnival.
Blog Carnival.com : A site built to help you find and run blog carnivals.
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Steve Pavlina talks about blog carnivals as one of the ways he built his traffic in the first place. I always wondered what they were exactly, and now you’ve given a great explanation. Thanks for the info.
I totally agree. Carnivals might sound goofy but they work well. If you keep submitting then overtime you will add a lot of new readers.
As a newbie, I’m definitely going to look into these blog carnivals. Thanks for the info!
Thanks, I’ve been reading about BlogCarnivals more and more lately. I’ll set myself up on there now.