Blog Carnivals: Have You Every Joined One?
So, today I wanted to touch a bit on blog carnivals and their uses. A few users over at Infobarrel decided to get together and start a blog carnival to help promote some of our articles. It is small right now, but as soon as we get more users to join in it should be a very nice backlink to our articles. In the future you will probably see me host a few blog carnivals on behalf of the group, but for now we are going to host it at one spot until the use of it picks up.
So what is a blog carnival? It's sort of a community of like minded people. There are so many interesting topics out there, but sometimes it can be hard finding a group of good blog posts or articles on one particular topic. What a blog carnival does is, collect the links to a particular subject, put them together in a nice article then publishes it on a blog. Say for instance Budget Travel is the topic you would like to read about. On a blog carnival that is about travel, you will read an article that gives links to other articles or blog posts about the same subject. So with one click you get several great posts or articles to read about all directed towards the subject you are interested in.
How does this help you if you are an author of one of these posts or articles? Well, it gives you a backlink and a chance at some traffic to your site or article. Lets face it, that's what you want, you want traffic to your site, and this gives you a chance to get targeted traffic. People who are actually interested in the subject you write about. Now it's a little different when you have a blog carnival about a writing site. The blog carnival that the Infobarrel people have put together is a grouping of their articles, they may not have the same topic in common, but they are from the same site. There is good that comes from this too. Say someone comes across the blog carnival because there was an article about travel, but then they also get to see your article about movies. They might be interested to see what you have to say, and there you go, you get traffic.
Blog Carnival is a great site to find a blog carnival on a particular subject. Also, if you would like to try using a blog carnival, you can find one that hosts on your topic and you can submit your link. Be sure to read the guidelines to the certain blog carnival you want to submit too. It is important to follow the rules to make the blog carnival the best it can be. Do not spam them and make sure your content is what the blog carnival is looking for.
If you get a chance, check out the Infobarrel Blog Carnival. You will get an idea of what a blog carnival is about and you might find an article that you like.
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