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Increase Traffic with Blog Carnivals

If you have a blog, then you probably encountered several times the well-known advice that you have to post regularly, in order to keep your audience. You also know some tricks on how to manage this when you also have a job, school, children, or other duties that may prevent you from writing.

There is a tool which was not so much mentioned, but it is worth trying: host a blog carnival. Blog carnivals are regular posts which gather articles on a given topic, submitted by their authors. Here’s how to get a blog carnival up and running:

  • 1. Sign up for a free account with BlogCarnival.com
  • 2. Browse the list of all existing carnivals and try to find a niche for your future carnival (it is better to be related to your blog’s topic). If you want to get more buzz around your carnival, you could use Technorati or any other tool to see which are the most popular searches.
  • 3. Find a good name for your carnival. As there are now more than 1500 carnivals registered, you have some competition here. Try to make it clear from the name what is it about.
  • 4. Follow the instructions and set up your carnival (it is very easy and the instructions given on BlogCarnival are precise). Set the limit date of sending the posts one or two days before the publishing date, so you have a time buffer there.
  • 5. Promote your carnival: write a post about it, inviting your readers to submit their articles, or tell your friends, or write in forums about it.
  • 6. As people submit posts for your blog carnival, you’ll be notified by e-mail. After the submission deadline, you’ll receive an e-mail from BlogCarnival, containing a great tool: InstaCarnival. This is in fact your future post: it contains links to all entries, already HTML formatted, so if you don’t feel like being more creative, you can just copy-paste the content and publish it on your blog.
  • 7. After you publish one edition of your blog carnival, go to BlogCarnival.com, mark that edition as published and announce the next one.

If you want to see an example, here’s my blog carnival, 1001 cats, and this is the first edition of 1001 cats published on my blog.

Good luck to all of you, and please let us know when we can submit our entries to your next blog carnival.

This article has been written by guest author Simonne Matthew. She blogs about productivity tools at All Tips And Tricks.

Posted in Make Money Online, The Net 

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9 Responses to “Increase Traffic with Blog Carnivals”

  1. Jason Neuman

    I’ve actually used Blogcarnival.com in the past and have had great success with it; more readers, more traffic, great networking and many more benefits.

    A great article by Simonne and a good reminder that all bloggers should start a carnival sooner than later!

    Thank you Simonne for being a guest author on my site and readers when you get a chance check her site out [All Tips And Tricks] there are some pretty interesting reads especially the one on giving your cat a pill — that she has gotten loads of hits on!

  2. azwanhadzree

    Have joined a blog carnival before but hv never actually done one. Interesting.

  3. Bong (JB)

    Hi!

    Interesting. It won hurt to try. Thanks for the tip. :D

  4. Make Friends, Earn Money

    Thanks for this infomation, I’ve seen loads of blogs doing this but I didn’t realise that there was a site dedicated to making this happen, will check this out as it will be useful for my blog on my website. Really helpful post cheers buddy..

  5. myikram

    Very useful info there, also, you can add more ways by

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  6. monalisa

    hey nice tip. i will definetly that to my blog

  7. Gruh Graham

    Other way to improve traffic is the online boosting systems, like the increasesiterating.com . This thing increases the daily unique page visits along with the total views thus lowering your rank in Alexa (remember the lower the rank the better). Besides there is no need for registration or some kind of an installation. The geek instructions are also missing

  8. Gerry from http://www.increaseweb-sitetraffic.com

    I have heard blog carnivals do send traffic. But what is the quality like?

    Is it targeted traffic? Traffic that converts?

    The problem is that the majority of these methods do not send a lot of traffic. They actually only send dribbles of traffic in small spurts. However, you should persist and try and find the methods that you like to do and are easy for you.

    Don’t forget to install a website tracking service as this will tell you exactly where your visitors are coming from and you need to know this information so that you can target the same techniques over and over again and make the best use of your time.

    Some common ways to direct traffic to your site include posting comments on highly ranked blogs in you niche, posting and participating in forums also in you niche or even giving a free e-book away to attract people to visit your site.

    All of these methods do work. Try a few yourself and you will see some positive results. The key to improving your results is to take your time and add value instead of just rushing the process and hoping that your fast comment or limited input will attract a potential buyer.

  9. Jacques Groenewald

    Mmmm i’ll give it a shot. Cant hurt trying i suppose. I’ll take your word on it. Thanks for the tip

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