How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic

There are many ways to drive traffic to a blog and blog carnivals are one of them. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of a blog carnival. I’m not sure why it’s called a carnival but roughly each week a blog owner will host the carnival and other blog owners submit posts from their blogs for consideration. There is a deadline for submissions which is usually a day or two before the blog carnival.

The person hosting the blog carnival will peruse the blog posts submitted and choose which ones to include. The host will make a post on the host blog with links to each of the posts included in the blog carnival. Hosts are free to do what they want. Some will select a top post or a top ten and say something about each of them. Other hosts will just post a list of all the blog posts submitted without much introduction.

Blog carnivals tend to attract a lot of visitors and each visitor will potentially visit your blog by clicking on the link to the post you submitted. Whatever the topic of your blog, you should no problems finding several relevant blog carnivals. If you’re really ambitious, you can host a blog carnival on your blog. It’s really very simple and doesn’t take much time.

Search for “blog carnivals” on the Internet if you’re not certain where to start. There is also a popular site that lists hundreds of blog carnivals and includes an easy submission form which only takes a few seconds to complete. All you need to do is copy the permalink from the post you’re submitting and the form will autocomplete all the other information except your name and email address. It’s that quick and easy.

You can search for more specific blog carnivals in your niche by performing more specific searches like maybe “golf blog carnival” if you have a blog about golf. That’s a good exercise for other reasons than finding blog carnivals. You might find a few new blogs to add the list of blogs you like to read. This is so brain dead simple that you should do it right now while you’re thinking about it. You can find a blog carnival and submit a post very quickly. Then you can sit back and watch the traffic come in.


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6 Responses to “How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic”

  1. Nesher Says:

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  5. Nesher Says:

    Thank you for article submission to the 2nd Edition of the “Adsense Tips and Tricks” Blog Carnival. The Edition was published today:
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