Blog Carnivals: The Biggest Kept Secret
One the best kept secrets that I don’t see too many bloggers using is a Blog Carnival. You’re probably asking, what the heck is a Blog Carnival. Well, it doesn’t involve games or bearded ladies; a Blog Carnival is an event that someone hosts on their blog. It explores a specific topic or niche and is published on a regular basis. These publishings can occur weekly, monthly or anytime the editor decides to host one. Any one can host a Carnival and anyone can submit a post to a Carnival.
A Blog Carnival has huge advantages for bloggers.
- It allows you to submit your related posts & have them seen by a wide audience. Who doesn’t want exposure!
- They are an excellent source for one way links.
- Most blogs that host Carnivals have decent rankings so this brings up your ranking.
There are many topics that you can cover when submitting your posts. They range from:
- Blogging for cash
- Monetizing
- Traffic building
- Success
- Improvement
- Crime blogs
- Fast cash
- Make money blogging
- Singers blogs
- Chinese blogs
- C++ blogging
Now that you know about this secret go take advantage of all the links you can get, exposure to your site and host one or two Carnivals yourselves.
This post was guest blogged by Jane May. She teaches readers how to create and monetize blogs on Daily Web Ideas.
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Jane you are really all about value….
This is all about “Showcasing”
Going to get on this right now!
Reply to this commentI aim to please
Reply to this commentThat’s a good habit to have in this field. I’m sure the company you are with is also extremely impressed with the “results” you attract to the table.
I would guess that you have a millions and 1 things to do a day but it’s because of that workload and the excitement that your the queen of the crop, no?
Reply to this commentThis is a great post. I too will jump on it.
Reply to this commentYeah I used Blog Carnival all the time and thats why my Technorati authority is almost at 200
Reply to this commentI have done several carnivals myself…never thought about hosting one though…hmmm
Reply to this commentI think that Technorati is down at the moment!….. Yikes.
Reply to this commentI don’t know why I’ve never came across carnivals before. Thanks for this entry though.
Reply to this commentThanks Jane, signed up and checking it out.
Reply to this commentHosting carnivals — you or John should delve deeper into that. Could make for a pretty interesting post.
Reply to this commentGiving away all the secrets huh
Reply to this commentNot all, just a few
Reply to this commentJane, How did you get to post things on John’s site? I’m searching for that answer, but I can’t find it anywhere.
Reply to this commentJane, your blog is currently down.
Reply to this commentI know, my server is acting up…trying to figure it out now.
Reply to this commentAll fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Reply to this commentThanx Nate! His response time really is amazing
Reply to this commentNate is the ultimate go getter. He is well connected too!
Reply to this commentwhat do you guys think about software like webceo(http://www.web-ceo-ranking-checker.com/index.htm) to help in managing blog visibility?
Reply to this commentBlog Carnivals eh
This truly seems one new topic of my interest
Oh Let me think to host a Technology Blog Carnival lol hehe
Thumbs up to Jane
Reply to this commentSurely going to work it out. Anyone who has already used it, can you tell the approx visitors/links you get?
Reply to this commentI will drop that comment on your site.:neutral:
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By the way, I’m going to host a blog carnival, the details are here: http://fundszine.com/19-blog-carnival-investing-for-simple-people/
Reply to this commentGood luck with your carnival!!
Reply to this commentThank you, Jane!
Amazingly, it’s a first Funds Zine carnival, but I already have about 30 submissions - I probably will make two carnival posts
Reply to this commentI’m one of those who just learn about blog carnival :p Thanks for posting this up.
Reply to this commentNo problem. I was surprised to hear that not too many people were using these carnivals. It was a great way to start for me.
Reply to this commentGood call on this post. I’ve been hearing things about carnivals for a while now, but never taken the time to post. Going to try now, been inspired by the post/comments. Thanks.
Reply to this commentGlad to hear you’re stepping out of your confort zone and “doing” instead of hearing. Let me know how it works out for you.
Reply to this commentI remember joining this a while ago but didn’t understand it. I get it better now. I will have to take advantage of it now that you recommend it.
Reply to this commentSeems interesting, really critical issue: theme of the carnival? Politics in Argentina? :=)
Reply to this commentOne of my guest bloggers had a great article on blog carnivals a little while ago, links included for those who are really interested.
http://bobmeetsworld.com/blog-carnivals/
Reply to this commentI’ve never really looked into blog carnivals before. Keep seeing all these threads all over the place for them but never bothered participating. Maybe now it’s about time I did.
Reply to this commentBut then again, now that it shows up on John’s site, it may be too late.
Reply to this commentNice sharing Jane! Another website to bookmark to get backlinks.. it will surely help to market my blog more as I got so much Internet Marketing tips to share on my blog…
The best was I got 50,000 people looking at MyBlogLog Widget and it is now circling around the BlogSphere like crazy =P
Reply to this commentThis is a great site to get blogging tips. Not entirely what i expected when I started reading but its been great so far.
Reply to this commentWow Jane, this is wild
, I read an article over the weekend about blog carnivals and I was thinking just today that I needed to learn more about them! 
Thanks for a timely post!
Don
Reply to this commentI tend to read people’s minds like that
Reply to this commentSecond time in a week that I read something about blogcarnivals….seems something to keep an eye on and look further into
Reply to this commentI read about blog carnival last week from a magazine on campus. Did you get this information from the web or possibly a magazine?
Reply to this commentI’ve done several carnivals, it’s quick and easy, esp. if you have a posting that fits the theme nicely!
Kenneth
Reply to this commentI co-founded a Carnival for Baby Boomer blogs and it’s been great. We do receive residual traffic whenever any of our members get extra attention.
Reply to this commentHa… I looked into BlogCarnival a few times in the past year and the carnivals I looked at seemed deserted.
Guess I’ll have to go back and see what I missed
Reply to this commentCool post. I read about blog carnivals a few months back but haven’t yet tried them myself…
Reply to this commentBut I think you could have explained what blog carnivals are exactly a little better, how they work, etc.
Hi John, thanks for the article in your site. very helpful. I think I fall in the same mistake of other Google whores
I make experiment blog for adsense, which seems to be zero traffic 
Reply to this commentWha???? Jane writes for JC dot Com? I didn’t know that…
Yes, carnivals are good, but I haven’t “carnival-ed” (???) in quite some time… maybe it’s time to jump back in… on… whatever…
and look into hosting one.
http://royboy81.cassas.net
Reply to this commenti will join up all decent carnivals
Reply to this commentYes, Blog Carnival! I totally forgot about this site….it is great
Thanks,
Reply to this commentI used to contribute to the Carnival of Cars. When the host stopped running it, I started the Carnival of Wheels. It generates consistent quality traffic, helps PR and even gives me ideas for new content. The only thing to remember is that writing a good carnival takes time. To write meaningful commentary on submissions, you need to actually read all of them, rather than just skimming. On weeks where I have had 15 or 16 submissions it can take a few hours of my Sunday.
Reply to this commentcarnival’s are interesting but I don’t think that I would use them, mostly because I don’t think that I would pay attention to them. I won’t write anything that I wouldn’t read
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