Building Traffic With Blog Carnivals

December 11, 2007 by
Filed under: General, Guest Post 

This is a guest post from Sharon Hurley Hall from PiggyBankPie.com Writing Services.

A blog is an easy way to make money online. You can make money from syndicating the content you have written, from contextual advertising and from promoting affiliate products. However, in order to do any of these things and to be truly successful, you need to attract visitors to your blog and raise your blog’s profile. One easy way to do this is by using blog carnivals.

What Are Blog Carnivals?

When you think of a carnival you probably have an image of lights and noise. There may not be any floats in a blog carnival but you are making noise about your best posts and shining a spotlight on them.

A blog carnival is a collection of posts from different blogs grouped around a theme. There are carnivals for business, writing, cities, money, health, religion and other carnivals where you can blow your own trumpet by highlighting the posts that you consider to be your best.

Blog carnivals are posted at intervals

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    7. However, many of the participants in the carnivals will link back to your blog or will at least check it out to see where their post has been sited.

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