Here are a few tips on promoting your edition of a blog carnival that you’ve slaved away at:

• Ask the bloggers who submitted articles to share the carnival with their readers. This probably is only fair, and some carnival managers are requiring that submitters link back to the carnival or run the risk of being blacklisted.
• Use any trackbacks you’re given and find the ones that you’re not. Trackbacks are similar to permalinks but they are used to automatically post a comment linking from the trackback link’s post to the site that initiated the trackback. This places a few links back to the carnival on the submitting bloggers’ posts.
• Use StumbleUpon to bring some juice to the carnival.  If you think that Stumbling your own posts is shady, then try this: Stumble your Editor’s Picks, and then let those bloggers know that you’ve done this and ask them to Stumble the carnival for you.  This way it looks more natural.
• Use social networking avenues like Twitter, Del.icio.us, etc. to announce the carnival.
• Ping the BlogCarnival.com sidebar widget.  Quite a few bloggers have a running list of posted carnivals on their sidebar.  Pinging this service will display the link there and might send you some traffic.  

• Dealing with spammy submissions As a blog carnival gets more popular, the number of submissions goes up, and the traffic the carnival gets goes up as well.  This is good.  Unfortunately, this popularity also attracts posts that are of marginal quality or are highly commercial.  Or, people will submit several posts to a single......
• Do a "best" list to feature posts Organizers of some of the more established carnivals are asking their hosts to feature the best posts they receive.  This is in an effort to help separate the cream from the crop and add some impact to the carnival.Tricia over at Blogging Away Debt had a neat way to feature......
• A quick roll-your-own carnival submission form BlogCarnival.com has become an integral part of many blog carnivals.  They were down for about a week with database maintenance.  I know that this was probably quite hectic for them as well as for all of the carnival managers that depend on the features it brings to the table. A......
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