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 […]
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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 edition of the carnival. Spammy […]
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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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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 […]
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The 83rd Carnival of Homeschooling, featured on the homepage of BlogCarnival.com, wrapped the posts up in a check-up theme. This was very effective and made the carnival a pleasure to read.
Bulletized lists are all right, and they serve their purpose, which is to provide links to the on-topic submitted articles and encourage readers to click […]
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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 her favorite posts for this […]
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There are many good ways to get your carnival to stand out if you’re the host. Typically the inventiveness is evident in the presentation of the posts. But what about adding a well-thought-out introduction to the carnival?
Most of the carnivals I’ve hosted just say something to the extent of:
“Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Crustaceans! […]
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For those who have hosted blog carnivals in a pinch, it’s a big help to have a working template that has all of the posts basically ready to go. That’s what BlogCarnival.com’s InstaCarnival is.
All of the posts are cast into simple sentences, like
Blogger presents A Really Cool Post over at Some Blog, saying “Some Comment”
The […]
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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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Since it’s very easy to submit posts to blog carnivals, the “barrier to entry” for the submitter is pretty low. This can be a pain for the person hosting a carnival, since the host has to wade through a bunch of irrelevant submissions as the blog carnival is being assembled.
As a host there are a […]
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