A blog carnival is a digital event in cyberspace. You, as a blogger
choose a topic related to your blog’s theme, invite blog entries from other
bloggers through a platform located at Blog Carnival.
You are the host of the carnival. You go through the submissions and
decide which of them to publish in your blog. You don’t publish the full blog
entry but only the title of the blog post which is linked to actual blog post.
How
it works?
You as the host of
the blog carnival announce the
carnival date and topic.
The carnival would act as a promotional event that is intended to
drive traffic to participating blogs. Since you are the host of the blog
carnival, your blog URL posted in the ‘about’ section of the carnival would be
visited by the prospective participants to decide whether your blog is worthy
of posting their content.
Bloggers
who chose to participate in the carnival, publish a post related to the blog
carnival topic (that you have announced )on their own blogs then send the link
to that post to the blog carnival host.
Since,
they are getting backlink, participating bloggers would naturally promote the
carnival on their own blogs thereby driving traffic to the host's (your) blog.
This is a prestigious issue for the contributing bloggers and hence, they would
go all out to promote the event resulting in a good flow of targeted traffic to
your blog.
What is your
role?
On
the date of the blog carnival, you as the host would publish a post on your
blog briefing about the event and give the links to the participants' submitted
posts that you have chosen as good. This would certainly drive traffic to the
participants' blogs.
Blog
Carnival-is it a onetime event or an ongoing event?
The
host can make it as an ongoing event announcing the future dates in advance.
However, they can be one-time events as well.
Places to
Promote a Blog Carnival.
Like any event, your blog carnival needs to reach as many bloggers as
possible and there are ways to announce your impending carnival. A seasoned
Internet marketer would surely explore all the IM avenues but a first time
would feel all at sea after announcing his carnival. He would be very
disappointed with the poor response if he has not promoted his blog carnival.
It's
not difficult to start a blog carnival as it only takes a few minutes and also
it is totally free. However, you need to promote it for it to be successful.
1. Forums
As
a serious blogger, you would be a member in various forums dedicated to
blogging. Announce your blog carnival there. In fact, there is an exclusive
discussion going on in About.com
Web Logs forum where there is a folder dedicated to blog carnivals. In
addition, it is a place to find carnivals posted by others.
2. Social Networking Sites and Groups
Use
your social media connections to announce your blog carnival. Find related
Facebook groups and Google + communities to post your carnival.
3. Design your own image for your blog carnival, link it to your carnival page.
Here is a sample image depicting a Travel Blog Carnival
When you visit the blog carnival site, you would
find the recent carnivals, archive of the past carnivals (18134 carnivals) and
search carnivals under various categories. You would know how a carnival looks
like.
Tips
In fact, I would advise you to browse the site, read the submission
guidelines before you either participate in a carnival or start your own
carnival.
My archive about Blog Carnivals
My archive about Blog Carnivals
The submissions from participants won’t be always relevant. In my
experience I could only choose about 25% of the entries. So, be prepared to
read a lot.
Summary:
Overall, it is a learning process to get involved in blog carnivals. The
experience is definitely worthy of your time.
7 comments:
This is an interesting idea. May have to look into it.
Nice and useful post :)
Nice helpful post.
great post as always!
quite informative!
Thats a really nice concpet... never tried before..
I really don't have any idea about all these, thanks for sharing it :)
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