One of the very easiest ways to get blog traffic, albeit not lots of it, is through blog carnivals. If you take part in Blog Traffic School you should definitely be prepared to submit your articles to blog carnivals, this task is on your activities list for Class Three.
What Is A Blog Carnival?
Way back in October 2005 I posted my very first carnival submissions. I was published in two carnivals. My traffic results weren’t amazing but they were good enough for me to keep doing it and I have submitted my articles to numerous blog carnivals since then. Back then I wrote an introduction to what a blog carnival is since I had only just figured it out myself, and I think I did a pretty good job of describing how a carnival works. Here once again I provide for you my explanation of what a blog carnival is -
For the bloggers out there you may have stumbled across what is called a Blog Carnival. A blog carnival is a network tool that aims to create awareness of all the great content created by bloggers. Each week the carnival moves to another blog and it is that blog owner’s job to write the carnival post, which links to all the best content created by other bloggers that week. Bloggers may submit their original content to the carnival to help increase the exposure of their blog. Each carnival is focused on a particular niche and with the carnival concept well developed there is generally a carnival for every topic you might be blogging about.
This is a great networking tool for bloggers. The host of the carnival each week enjoys a nice jump in traffic and backlinks in exchange for their work reviewing and recommending the best articles in the blogosphere for their industry in that week. The article writers (bloggers) gain some additional exposure as the carnival is showcased all around the blogosphere.
As with any concept like this there is a critical mass point before a carnival really takes off. You need to have enough bloggers linking to the carnival host each week, enough bloggers submitting articles and enough blogs signing up to host the carnival in the future (throw a credibility standard and quality benchmark in there too for good measure). The more blogs that support the carnival the greater the traffic to the blogs in the carnival and the more desirable it is to become part of the carnival.
How To Submit Your Articles To Blog Carnivals
Nowadays I only submit my articles to carnivals using the very handy Carnival Submit Form provided by the Conservative Cat. It takes literally 5 minutes to submit my blog articles to all the relevant carnivals. I only have to fill out the details once, then select each carnival one-by-one that I believe my article is appropriate for.
If you have never made use of a blog carnival you should check out a few first to see how they work. Take a look at 40th edition of The Carnival of the Recipes, which as it sounds, is a blog carnival that travels around food related blogs and highlights recipes. Once you have done that go to the Carnival Submit Form and see if you can find some carnivals related to the topics you blog about and consider submitting the next pillar article you produce.
Good luck!
Yaro Starak
Blog Traffic King
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