Comments on: Website Traffic Series Part 2: Submtting Your Content to Blog Carnivals

By: Traffic Fusionon

Traffic Fusionon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:45:00 +0000

For some reason I have never heard of Blog carnivals before… but from what I am seeing here, I sure am going to try it out.

By: Peter Szaboon

Peter Szaboon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:42:00 +0000

Never heard of a Blog Carnival before. Wheres the reading material.

By: Traffic2MyPage.comon

Traffic2MyPage.comon — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:54:00 +0000

if you are going to submit your site to blog carnivals… if they get accepted then make sure u go and bookmark those sites on digg, stumbleupon etc so that people visit the sites!

By: kovilenon

kovilenon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:24:00 +0000

Thanks for the tips dude!!
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By: Cory from Dental Heroeson

Cory from Dental Heroeson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:29:00 +0000

I’m going to give a few relevant Blog Carnivals a shot. To me, it seems like just one small way to leverage your traffic. There’s probably little downside here.

By: Reneeon

Reneeon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +0000

I enter as many carnivals that I can find that are related to my subject matter, feminism, racism, politics etc. I may even write a post with the express desire to aim it at a carnival. I have found that I don’t get alot of hits from them however the people that are coming are interested in my subject matter and some have become regular commentators on my blog. I can see that slowly overtime this will lead to a good readership base.

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:30:00 +0000

@Chad, its showing that to me as well. Weird, it is the first time I came across that error.

By: Chadon

Chadon — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:16:00 +0000

I just went to the Blog Carnival site and got this message..

By: Ali from TheOfficeDieton

Ali from TheOfficeDieton — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:08:00 +0000

I came across that quote from Steve before I started The Office Diet, and it did encourage me to submit to blog carnivals. I’ve not seen much traffic from these (I get maybe 2-3 hits a day from the various carnivals I’ve submitted to) but it has helped HUGELY in building up the number of links to The Office Diet out there on the web.

By: one million euro blogon

one million euro blogon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:13:00 +0000

Thanks alot. I’m going to participate in these carnivals.

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Just to make it clear, I have no relation whatsoever with that blog carnival website. I don’t accept sponsored reviews, and I almost don’t even use affiliate links on this site (when I do I explicit them).

By: Paul Squireson

Paul Squireson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:54:00 +0000

well that is sad, i thought you were a salesman,oh well,

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:35:00 +0000

Paul, I have no idea what you talking about :).

By: Paul Squireson

Paul Squireson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:11:00 +0000

Exactly. It’s not a genuine endorsement of the product, carefully worded to avoid any responsibility, I am trying to help you out here guys, I’ve been a quiet subscriber to your feed for a long time, checking in when things looked interesting, and I admit to learning a great deal from it, not always what you were trying to teach, and I’m telling you that that openness in the endorsement, not an acutal commitment to how many numbers just a vague shove in the direction of the link, and your obvious reluctance to address the issue of your motivation, ie, is there a commercial link, a propreitary double interest behind it, and that i saw the site had been sold for big buckeroonies, which is to say even the appearance of dodginess, not actual dodginess, who can ever know for sure? but all you got is a reputation for credibility and even though you don’t care about one subscriber, check you numbers i been here a long time, well you just lost one,

By: Michelleon

Michelleon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:34:00 +0000

just this evening on my way home from work, i was thinking about doing a blog carnival. glad you reminded me!

By: Grahamon

Grahamon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:31:00 +0000

Never heard of a Blog Carnival before. Where’s the reading material.

By: Voice Of Dingchaoon

Voice Of Dingchaoon — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:16:00 +0000

Sounds it’s a good way to drive traffic, i will try it by myself.

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:25:00 +0000

And who said that?

By: WordPress SEOon

WordPress SEOon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:57:00 +0000

I find that BlogCarnival is a great way to bring traffic to my blogs!

By: Paul Squireson

Paul Squireson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:53:00 +0000

To anyone who claims they got anywhere near 50,000 hits from a blog carnival.

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:52:00 +0000

Paul, you referring to me or to Steve Pavlina :)?

By: Paul Squireson

Paul Squireson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:28:00 +0000

“In my early traffic-building days, Id do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month” Bullshit. The only people go to the carnival site is to post their links, next to noone uses them for reading pruposes. I suspect the only reason you are telling people this is because you own the carnival site as well.

By: Maria Reyes-McDavison

Maria Reyes-McDavison — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:57:00 +0000

I can attest, blog carnivals really work. One caveat is to be really careful of who you’re “associating” with in those carnivals (made this mistake a year ago)…

By: Damien Van Vroenhovenon

Damien Van Vroenhovenon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Great post, I’ve been investigating blog carnivals recently and even wrote a post defining them on my blog.

By: jonsonrothon

jonsonrothon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Here’s the truth of blog carnivals: You’ll get the same submitters over and over – many of whom who are poor writers – who will never link back to you because someone told them reciprocal linking was bad.

By: Cindy Szponderon

Cindy Szponderon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:34:00 +0000

I’d heard about blog carnivals before, but hadn’t gotten around to finding any yet. Thanks for the link!

By: Susanon

Susanon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:28:00 +0000

Interesting topic! I am going to check out the blog carnivals now.

By: Daniel Scoccoon

Daniel Scoccoon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:51:00 +0000

Mike, thanks for the input.

By: Mikeon

Mikeon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Carnival participation really does drive long-term, quality traffic growth. If you participate in carnivals that match your niche, you’ll be reaching your true audience. Plus, all those backlinks pay off, even when the immediate traffic doesn’t pour in.

By: anishon

anishon — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:06:00 +0000

Hello Steven,