One of the sidebar ads within BlogCarnival.com showed a blog carnival submission tool called Xingla Pro 3.

Honestly, I thought submitting articles to different blog carnivals was pretty easy, but this tool appears to make it ridiculously easy.  Maybe almost too easy.

I asked a question of a guy who had a “blog carnival submission service” and asked him to clarify what his service was all about.  For $25/month, he will submit one URL per week to 15-20 carnivals.  I didn’t ask — I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t tell me anyway! — but Xingla Pro 3 would be a great way to make this kind of business really easy.  Select 15-20 carnivals, load up the URL and other information, push a button, and bingo!  Bulk carnival submission!

Or just spamming?

My Carnival of Debt Reduction is one of the easier ones to submit to at the moment.  I don’t require much of anything yet of the submitters, nor of the hosts.  (I’m thinking of asking hosts to link to my latest debt reduction tips because it seems a little less demanding to ask them to link to a post with actual information than to link to the homepage.)  But anyway, I know other managers don’t allow submissions to their carnival to go to other carnivals, and others that require a back link to the carnival homepage from the host.  This makes me a target for less discriminating carnival submitters.

So, is a tool like Xingla Pro 3 good or evil?  I think it does what it does well.  Ultimately this kind of backlinking strategy might backfire, but who knows?  In any case, if carnival managers don’t set the standard for what constitutes a valid submission to their carnival, they probably deserve to be hit with bulk submission tools like this, and they’re setting up their hosts to deal with a lot of junk.

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