Sunday 4 November 2012

Importance of Blog Carnivals

I can almost hear many groans from my audience complaining about yet another jargon I have just introduced at the blog. This jargon you better pay attention to as this might be the ultimate in traffic building tools that are available to budding bloggers.

Blog carnivals are nothing but communities that show case particular niche blogs on selsected dates and provide links to all the blogs who have shown interest in the event. They are like road shows where even upstarts your truly are given equal opportunities. There are many such carnivals on the internet that cater to this demand of a "Link Fair".

A blog carnival offers a unique captive audience for your blogs and gives a boost to the traffic for flagelling blogs in the beginning of their lives. The best part of such carnivals is that you get so much in-bound traffic and publicity and that too for free. Only thing left for bloggers is to find their niche subjects in the huge collection of categories and sub-categories and post their best posts for the participants to read. Each carnival event can easily fetch hundreds if not thousands of new subscribers for your blog and can go a long way to publicising your blog.

As Steve Pavlina says;

In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog for free. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club - they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore.
This is one tool for blog publicity that no blogger worth his salt should ignore.

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