Use blog carnivals for traffic, links and to make money with your blog
Blog carnivals are one of the easiest ways you can utilize your own content to drive traffic to your blog, increase your back links and make more money blogging. You don’t even need to do any extra work to take advantage of blog carnivals. Hosting a blog carnival is time consuming, but participating in a blog carnival is easy.
Carnival mayhem
Blog carnivals are collections of blog posts submitted by bloggers to one designated blog. The author of that blog links to all the posts in a post on his or her own blog. The posts will be on the same topic, usually related to the overall topic of the blog hosting the carnival. Here’s a link to a carnival I participated in recently.
So what do you need to do to get yourself in a carnival? Well, first of all you need to find one. The best place to look is Blog Carnival, a website where you will find an extensive list of hundreds of carnivals covering a variety of topics, including making money online and making money blogging. You sign up for Blog Carnival, browse the list, choose one you like, and then submit one of your blog posts for inclusion.
The great thing is that you don’t even need to write a new blog post. You just submit your existing content. Have a look through your old blog posts and pick out your best content. You can then submit the same article to multiple carnivals.
When submitting articles, you should try and include affiliate links in the posts you want included in the carnivals. That way, if you do get a dose of traffic, you maximize your potential for spinning it into money.
The downside
While blog carnivals are always a positive thing, some carnivals are better than others. What you really want is a carnival that limits the number of entries and has decent traffic, because otherwise you won’t be getting anybody clicking through to your article.
If you come across any decent carnivals then make a point to submit a post every time the carnival comes around (usually once a month or so). Even if a carnival sucks, however, you still get a link back.
Where do you find your blog carnivals and what are you experiences with them?
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2 Responses to “Use blog carnivals for traffic, links and to make money with your blog”
Did you receive many new subscribers from the carnivals? I was always under the impression they were like Digg hits, strictly short term.
After the last couple of carnivals my RSS popped up about 10 readers.