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 year, plus ten automatic entries into his wildly popular Personal Finance March Madness competition.
This is refreshing. A lot of blog carnivals are becoming nothing more than link dumps. Hosts have had it, and managers have had it.
Some of the advantages of a limited-post, quality-based carnival:
- Filtering. The host has filtered out the riff-raff and the mediocre.
- More traffic for those accepted. Being one of ten posts is better than being one of a hundred.
- Less wasted time. You may miss a few good posts that didn’t quite make the cut, but it’s unlikely that you’ll sit through any bad ones.
- Self-selecting. After getting turned down a dozen times, spammers might turn to greener pastures.
- Construction of the carnival is easier and faster. Less typing.
If your niche is being overrun with link-dump carnivals, consider starting your own Best Of carnival!
