I’m Getting Nice Backlinks From Blog Carnivals

A blog carnival is a simple concept - here’s the description from the Blog Carnival web site:

“…where someone takes the time to find really good blog posts on a given topic, and then puts all those posts together in a blog post called a “carnival”.”

So why would you want to do this?  Yes, it’s just another ‘thing’ you have to do with your blog posts (submit to bookmarking sites, Digg, etc…) - but the payoff is that this technique really works.  You get great relevant backlinks from sites similar to yours- AND relevant, convert-able traffic to boot.  Just hop over to Blog Carnival and set up an account - add the carnivals that apply to your web site to the ‘Favorites’ section and submit away.

Be kind to carnival owners, however.  Don’t submit every post, particularly if you post daily with short posts like  ‘Check This Out….[link]…’.  Submit posts that would be truly useful.  Also, don’t submit your Internet marketing tips to the Spirituality Carnival- keep on topic.  If you can’t be insightful in your posts, at least be helpful.  That is kind of my motto on this blog, I don’t try to pontificate on strategy or trends, I just try to post helpful information.

Submit to blog carnivals for a couple of weeks and watch your inbound links and traffic increase.