Can your spare half an hour each week to promote your blog? For a smaller blog, spending that time submitting your posts to blog carnivals could be a profitable use of your time. The benefits are twofold. First is the traffic you will gain. The amount of traffic to be gained will depend upon the popularity of the carnival and the traffic levels at the blog hosting the carnival. But the other benefit is getting backlinks. For each carnival you will get one link to your post and sometimes a second link to your home page.
This strategy works on a weekly cycle. Try to submit at the same time each week. This makes it easier to track what carnivals you’ve submitted to. I’ll discuss this point more under step 2.
Here are the steps.
1. Write at least one killer post each week.
As this stratgey is based on a schedule of weekly submission to blog carnivals, we need to make sure we have a great post ready for submission each week. Put some extra effort into at least one of your posts. Maybe give it a broader appeal. Write about something that will turn new readers into regular readers. This will be the post we target the blog carnivals with.
2. Go to the Blog Carnival website and find all of the carnivals to be published in the next week.
Most carnivals don’t allow multiple submissions for the same edition. And because not all carnivals are published on a weekly basis, we need to make sure we don’t double up on our submissions. The way we do this is by selecting only those carnivals to be published during the next week. This way we will be sure of making only one submission.
You can easily do this by going to http://blogcarnival.com/bc/clist.html then clicking on the little sort button in the header of the Next Edition column. This will give you the list of carnivals in order of when they will next be published.
3. Submit to each and every relevant carnival.
Now just work down through the list and submit to all of the blog carnivals with topics relative to your niche. Depending on your niche, you should be able to find at least 8 - 10 blog carnivals to submit to. If you’re having trouble finding relevant blog carnivals, you might need to get a little creative. Think about ways you can relate one of your posts to the topic of the carnival.
When you submit to a blog carnival, make sure you fill in the Remarks text box. This will serve 2 purposes.
Firstly, this is quite often put into the resulting carnival post verbatim. Think of this as a free ad for your blog. Sell your article and get traffic for your efforts.
The other reason is that the owners of some of the larger carnivals only publish a selection of the articles submitted. Make sure your remarks convince the carnival host to include your post.
So get cracking. Gather up your best posts and get some extra traffic and backlinks by submitting blog carnivals on a regular basis. When you’re starting out, the 10 backlinks each week will come in handy, not to mention the extra traffic from the carnival itself. For more information about the importance of backlinks
This strategy works on a weekly cycle. Try to submit at the same time each week. This makes it easier to track what carnivals you’ve submitted to. I’ll discuss this point more under step 2.
Here are the steps.
1. Write at least one killer post each week.
As this stratgey is based on a schedule of weekly submission to blog carnivals, we need to make sure we have a great post ready for submission each week. Put some extra effort into at least one of your posts. Maybe give it a broader appeal. Write about something that will turn new readers into regular readers. This will be the post we target the blog carnivals with.
2. Go to the Blog Carnival website and find all of the carnivals to be published in the next week.
Most carnivals don’t allow multiple submissions for the same edition. And because not all carnivals are published on a weekly basis, we need to make sure we don’t double up on our submissions. The way we do this is by selecting only those carnivals to be published during the next week. This way we will be sure of making only one submission.
You can easily do this by going to http://blogcarnival.com/bc/clist.html then clicking on the little sort button in the header of the Next Edition column. This will give you the list of carnivals in order of when they will next be published.
3. Submit to each and every relevant carnival.
Now just work down through the list and submit to all of the blog carnivals with topics relative to your niche. Depending on your niche, you should be able to find at least 8 - 10 blog carnivals to submit to. If you’re having trouble finding relevant blog carnivals, you might need to get a little creative. Think about ways you can relate one of your posts to the topic of the carnival.
When you submit to a blog carnival, make sure you fill in the Remarks text box. This will serve 2 purposes.
Firstly, this is quite often put into the resulting carnival post verbatim. Think of this as a free ad for your blog. Sell your article and get traffic for your efforts.
The other reason is that the owners of some of the larger carnivals only publish a selection of the articles submitted. Make sure your remarks convince the carnival host to include your post.
So get cracking. Gather up your best posts and get some extra traffic and backlinks by submitting blog carnivals on a regular basis. When you’re starting out, the 10 backlinks each week will come in handy, not to mention the extra traffic from the carnival itself. For more information about the importance of backlinks
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