Someone Explain Blog Carnivals!
Posted Sep 13th, 2007 by Adam - 
Lots of bloggers have talked about blog carnivals and how effective they can be. In his post 101 Blog Tips I learned in 2006, Daniel of Daily Blog Tips talks about the importance of using blog carnivals. Readers like Egon of Automoblog and Ruud of Ruud PHP & My SQL agreed.
I’ve heard about blog carnivals for quite some time, but I’m not entirely sure about how they work, how to use them or what benefits they provide.
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What is a blog carnival and why should bloggers use them? Have you ever used a blog carnival? Can you point to any good posts explaining blog carnivals? I am the only one in the dark about blog carnivals?!
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Welcome to Blog Carnivals ! I love the idea of blog carnivals where someone takes the time to find really good blog posts on any given topic, and then puts all those posts together on a blog page called a “carnival”.
I run one of the most popular Blog Carnivals out there and I welcome your post’s Carnivals can be very descriptive , and very concise, or just a quick hello” . Most carnivals stick to one subject. We want everyone. Kind of a one stop shopping mall, for bloggers. I promote your blog, or your photos, Or a good cause, we update daily. you simply add your url to our guest book and your done. I do ask for a Technorati Fave in return, But thats up to the blogger. We dont even require your e mail address. Why not just take a look and you’ll see why Blog Carnivals are a great promotional tool.
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A carnivals a one stop blogging mall, updated every few hours.. much like Boing Boing ..I run one of the most popular and by far the easiest to get featured on.
Your site will be featuired within Hours.
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Hi Christine,
Blog carnivals are basically a scheduled event by the carnival “host” - usually weekly, monthly, or bi-weekly - where the host of the event (which is either one person/blog, or a different volunteer host each time) collects links to articles around their niche, submitted by the authors, and displays them in one post. You can submit your best posts to a carnival by going to blogcarnival.com and searching for a carnival in your niche.
Be warned though, there are a lot of carnivals in the list that are no longer active. You have to look to make sure there is another one scheduled, otherwise you’re wasting time.
Here’s an example of a carnival that I submit to occasionally: http://blogs.edmunds.com/.ee9e344
I’ve also been a host a few times. Bascially, at the start of submissions, we get an email for each submission from each blogger. We read those articles, decide if they should be included (there is a lot of spam) and then write a quick review of the article including the link.
Carnivals are great for everybody, because the host gets links and traffic from each blogger who participated, and the author gets a link to his article and/or homepage. It’s really a win/win situation.
I hope this helps clear up what carnivals are a bit. If you have any more questions, let me know.
Egon does a great job of explaining them.
I think blog carnivals are valuable to read - reading interesting posts and finding new blogs to follow. And blog carnivals can help you publicize your blog to new readers - them doing what you did in the last sentence (in my opinion the best ones to submit to are those you find worth reading). I run one myself focused on managing organizations more effectively.