Promote Your Blog with a Blog Carnival

There are so many blogs out there clamoring for the web surfing public's attention, it truly boggles the mind to consider promoting your own blog. For a blog, success is all about page views. But getting those page views can be a real mystery. After all, how do you make yourself heard in a room full of shouting people?

Blog carnivals are a great way to appeal to readers with a particular interest. That is because of the very nature of a blog carnival. They come into being when a blogger decides to host one. Perhaps a travel blogger decides to promote her genre by holding a travel blog carnival. She invites readers to send permalinks of their favorite travel blog entries, and assembles these into a link list. Readers of travel articles can then treat the list as an issue of a travel magazine.

See how useful that can be in terms of getting your travel blog read by people who read travel articles? People who enjoy this carnival on a regular basis will see the permalink to your blog entry. If they read it and enjoy it, they may peruse the rest of your blog as well.

There are all kinds of blog carnivals, from travel to writing to tarot card readings to blogs by women and just about anything you can imagine.

If you would like to use blog carnivals to promote your blog, simply go to BlogCarnival.com and check out the list of blog carnivals. Along with the carnival's title, you will see the subject matter it deals with as well. Click on a title that appeals to you and click on the link that allows you to submit a post. You have to know the permalink for that particular post. In other words, each post will have its own URL. In Blogger, you find that by clicking the date at the end of the post.

Then you wait. You will receive a receipt for your submission, which you can use to keep track of the next issue of the blog carnival. Many carnival hosts request a courtesy linkback in return for the link they give you. Even if they don't make such a request, it is polite to do so anyway. After all, they have just supplied a valuable service for you. It's only right that you return the favor, not to mention good business, as it will keep you on their mind longer.