Try scheduling hosts in advance
This is a rule that I don’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...
View ArticlePay attention to the directions from the manager
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...
View ArticleEasy themes your blog carnival
Adding a theme to your carnival doesn’t have to be difficult. It can be as easy as looking around you and searching Wikipedia. Interspersing a few interesting facts about a timely topic, regardless of...
View ArticleAn unfortunate reality of hosting a blog carnival
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,...
View ArticleA quick roll-your-own carnival submission form
BlogCarnival.com has become an integral part of many blog carnivals. They were down for about a week with database maintenance. I know that this was probably quite hectic for them as well as for all...
View ArticleCarnivalize yourself once in a while
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...
View ArticlePowerful backlink tool, or spammer in a box?
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...
View ArticleTheme your carnival with unusual holidays
Writer’s block can come at the worst possible moment, like when it’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...
View ArticleConsider choosing quality over quantity
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...
View ArticleScreen the submissions with clear rules
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...
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