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	<title>Blog Carnival Tips</title>
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		<title>Screen the submissions with clear rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there are no rules for what can be submitted to your blog carnival, then just about anything will be submitted!  The overall quality of posts submitted to the Carnival of Debt Reduction had been going downhill a touch.  Lots of automatic carnival submission was happening through BlogCarnival.com, and I decided to cut the cord [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2009/09/16/screen-the-submissions-with-clear-rules/</link>
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		<title>Consider choosing quality over quantity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Free Money Finance has started up a new blog carnival that turns its back on quantity.  The Best of Money Carnival, by definition, is limited to only ten posts each week.  FMF even throws in some perqs:  $1,000 donated to charity for the best post of the year and for the best host of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2009/07/07/consider-choosing-quality-over-quantity/</link>
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		<title>Theme your carnival with unusual holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writer&#8217;s block can come at the worst possible moment, like when it&#8217;s your turn to host a carnival.  You really want to get away from the InstaCarnival deal and do something special, but what? Check out Holiday Insights.  They have a big list of unusual holidays.  I had no idea that today, February 24th, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2009/02/24/theme-your-carnival-with-unusual-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Powerful backlink tool, or spammer in a box?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;blog carnival submission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2009/01/30/powerful-backlink-tool-or-spammer-in-a-box/</link>
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		<title>Carnivalize yourself once in a while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog carnivals are meant to be a collection of posts from other blogs on a specific topic, but what about a Carnival of You?  What about putting together a bunch of your favorite links from your own blog, and slapping a Carnival moniker on it? Why not? Clever Dude has done this as a way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/12/31/carnivalize-yourself-once-in-a-while/</link>
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		<title>A quick roll-your-own carnival submission form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BlogCarnival.com has become an integral part of many blog carnivals.&#160; They were down for about a week with database maintenance.&#160; 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 reasonable backup plan to handle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/11/02/a-quick-roll-your-own-carnival-submission-form/</link>
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		<title>An unfortunate reality of hosting a blog carnival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The larger benefit goes to the people who submit to the carnivals rather than to the people who put forth all of the effort to host them. A number of bloggers I respect have figured this out already, and they&#8217;re fairly reluctant to host a carnival anymore. They understand the benefit of regular submission to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/09/06/an-unfortunate-reality-of-hosting-a-blog-carnival/</link>
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		<title>Easy themes your blog carnival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding a theme to your carnival doesn&#8217;t have to be difficult.&#160; It can be as easy as looking around you and searching Wikipedia. Interspersing a few interesting facts about a timely topic, regardless of whether that topic is closely tied to the particular blog carnival, dresses it up substantially.&#160; It&#8217;s way better than a bare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/08/22/easy-themes-your-blog-carnival/</link>
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		<title>Pay attention to the directions from the manager</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/06/30/pay-attention-to-the-directions-from-the-manager/</link>
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		<title>Try scheduling hosts in advance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a rule that I don&#8217;t follow all the time, and it adds a lot of stress having to find a host from week to week. The Carnival of Personal Finance has come to ask for hosts quarterly. He asks for hosts about a month in advance, then decides over the next couple of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogcarnivaltips.com/2008/04/29/try-scheduling-hosts-in-advance/</link>
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