Author:Sharon Hurley Hall
Think of a carnival and you think of lights, noise and a good show. There's a new kind of carnival that all bloggers should know about. It's called a blog carnival. Here's how you can use blog carnivals to promote your blog or website.
If you want to increase traffic to your site, it's good to get a blog. Once
you've got a blog, you need to let people know it exists. Blog carnivals are an
excellent way to promote your blog and website and bring new visitors.
What Is A Blog Carnival?
A blog carnival is where you get to show off the stuff you've been writing
about in your blog. A carnival is a collection of blog posts around a theme. In
most cases you submit your own posts to the carnival or carnivals. There are
carnivals for everything, it seems - dogs, cats, the kitchen sink, family life.
Listing A Blog Post
Submit it to the blog carnival of your choice, but make sure the content is
appropriate. Almost all the carnivals have rules about what they will and will
not accept and the age of the blog post. There are two good places to start.
First, conservativecat.com has a carnival submission form which makes the
process easy. The page has a list of several blog carnivals, the deadline for
submission and space to put in the blog post title and author, your email
address and any comments. There is also lots of other carnival related
information on the page. A second option is a similar list on blogcarnival.com.
This makes it even easier to see the carnival name, category and due date for
the next edition.
Building Traffic With Blog Carnivals
Once you've submitted your post, whoever is hosting the carnival does a
roundup of the posts. An email is then sent out to all participants to let them
know the carnival has been posted. Submission to blog carnivals can get new
attention for old blog posts.
Another option is to host a blog carnival. This means reading and summarizing
all the blog posts submitted. That will bring even more traffic to your site.
Additional Blog Carnival Benefits
Another benefit of blog carnivals is that they can tell you who else is
posting similar material and give you new blogs to visit. The more blogs you
visit and comment on, the more comments and visits your own blog will attract.
Seems like a good deal.
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About the Author
Sharon Hurley Hall is a freelance writer, ghostwriter and editor. Sharon also
publishes a
freelance writing advice blog.
Source: http://www.bloggertalk.net
