Blog carnivals are great tools for marketing a blog and getting some free backlinks, but there are few ways more effective at killing the proverbial goose that lays the proverbial golden eggs than ticking off the manager of the carnival by not following his/her directions!
If you repeatedly submit spam or overly commercial posts and the […]
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I was catching up with the blogs in my reader and ran across this Carnival of Future Millionaires in my reader. It was posted this week, and honestly I had forgotten that I had. (I did not receive an e-mail from the host asking me to link back to the carnival.)
Some things to note about […]
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Last week when I tried to submit my article to the Carnival of Personal Finance over at BlogCarnival.com, I found out that this carnival was “inactive.” At one point the carnival I manage, the Carnival of Debt Reduction, was in danger of becoming inactive over there because I hadn’t updated the hosting list in […]
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Putting together a carnival can take anywhere from about five minutes to many, many hours.
The five minute version takes advantage of the “InstaCarnival” feature on BlogCarnival.com. The InstaCarnival is a post that has a number of lines with the format:
Blogger presents blog post, posted at blog, saying “comment”
for each post submitted through the BlogCarnival.com […]
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Some of the first blog carnivals had a broad subject matter. Since “carnival real estate” was wide open, general-interest carnivals could stake their claim without displacing anyone. When one looks at the money and finance carnivals at BlogCarnival.com there are a couple of screenfuls of money and finance carnivals. The first of these (as far […]
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