Getting your readers to think about the posts

Blunt Money’s take on the Carnival of Personal Finance this week featured a crossword puzzle with words that related to the posts in the carnival.  Very inventive!
With a carnival as popular as the Carnival of Personal Finance it helps to have an extra something to get readers involved in reading the post.  Looking at a […]

How tightly does one need to control a carnival?

As blog carnivals get big and well-established, the traffic gets pretty substantial.  This attracts more posts, both good and bad.  The good posts, because it’s a good, long-standing carnival that bloggers want to submit to.  The bad posts, because it’s an easy, high-traffic link for not that much work.
Initially, when the Carnival of Personal Finance […]