For those of you who are my regular readers you might have noticed something called the Carnival of Personal Development in my right sidebar. A blog carnival is nothing more than a way for bloggers to get some of their best articles read by a larger crowd of people. I simply setup a carnival with Blog Carnival and got started. Lots of people have already submitted there articles and the first edition will hit on December 1st, 2008. How appropriate, right? This is kind of like my Saturday Rap except, instead of me finding great articles, users send their articles to me.
So if you are a regular reader and not a blogger, simply enjoy the articles when the editions comes out…
If you are a blogger and have found this site through blog carnival or want to submit your article first read the guidelines…
- All articles are generally accepted, but the carnival host has full discretion as to whether they will include the article in the carnival or not.
- If your article is accepted, you will be notified of when your edition is posted.
- Once it is posted, all bloggers are asked to link back to the carnival. This helps everyone out, and helps everyone get the most traffic for their article.
- Articles must fit within one of three categories. Personal Development, Personal Finance, or Personal Health. Articles that do not fit within one of the three categories will generally be excluded from the carnival.
- The host will only accept one article per person per edition. Sorry.
- The carnival host generally does not answer questions about the carnival. Questions can be submitted through the comment section of this post. Please subscribe to comments or check back within 48 hours to see a response.
Thank you for reading the guidelines. If you feel you have a great article, please share it with us. We would love to read it!
Lastly, with the response so far I am considering doing this on a bi-weekly basis or even a weekly basis if I can get some help.
I need some people to volunteer to be carnival hosts.
The benefit of being a carnival host is that it gives your site a lot of exposure as well as backlinks.
Please contact me through blog carnival if you are interested. Thanks!
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I’m sure it’s great. Can’t wait to take a look.
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I don’t get the whole Nofollow thing – I mean, people want others to comment on their blog, giving them content, but they’re not prepared to give the commenter something in return. Seems a bit selfish to me
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Hi Stuart,
First I want to say thanks for stopping by. I appreciate every reader that comes by. Second, I have a few things to say about dofollow. One, dofollow only pertains to search engines (and mostly google at that). Other readers can still click your link to get to your website from a comment. Its a personal decision, but I think dofollow hurts more than it helps. Its not really a great reward. One link from a comment isn’t going to boost you site much at all if anything.
I still reward my top commentators because that link is a do follow. And it is sitewide. So Google will pay it more attention than a comment link anyway. Individual pages or posts normally don’t have pagerank to give. Its just the front page that normally has pagerank and that doesn’t have any comments on it anyhow.
Still the best link you can have is in actual content. Readers love it, google loves it. You will get a lot more bang for your buck when your link is referenced in content. Readers will go to it for more in depth information. And google will use that to list you for keywords. That is what will make you rank higher for certain keywords. Not commenting.
Hope this helps clear up any misunderstanding. Please feel free to ask me any more questions.Cheers,
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I have to admit that I joined one blog carnival this year, but really didn’t understand the concept of it all. I’m not even sure it worked, as I didn’t notice any increase in visits on the day the carnival launched (just thought about how weird a concept that sounds like). Still, I hope yours is a success.
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Jeremy,
I have never joined a blog carnival and am also not entirely sure how they work, but I will definitely submit a post. Good luck with this, I hope it works out!
- Jack Rugile
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Finally someone who can write a good blog ! I loved your post and will be telling others about it. Subscribing to your RSS feed now. Thanks
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Thank you for the compliment!
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