Key Business Partners, LLC

Have you ever heard of Blog Carnivals? Perhaps you have heard of them but never taking the time OR found the time how to post your blog posts. Or maybe you didn’t understand how posting to a blog carnival can help you in the promotion or marketing of your book, event or products.

Blog Carnivals—what are they? Well, put simply, they are a list of blog posts under the umbrella of a specific topic or subject.

Blog Carnivals can be used as another method of marketing and promoting your work (books or writing). It allows a way for your showcase your expertise to be seen by new readers and audiences. Yo

You have the opportunity to showcase your blog posts on another site that will be targeted to your subject
of expertise.

How do you get started?

Go to Blog Carnival home page. Tip –> be sure to type in http://www.blogcarnival.com NOT http://www.blogcarnivals.com.

You will first see listed on the home page dome of the most recent blog carnivals (left side) and most popular blog carnivals (right side). You can also see some of the NEW blog carnival (listed in red).

On the left upper hand side you will see the register (sign up link). It is free and only takes about 3 minutes.

Once you register, you can go on the home page and start searching for blog carnivals.

In order to see the variety of blog carnivals available, go to the link at the upper right hand side where it states blog carnival indexso you are able to see the list.

Once at the list page, you are able to sort the list by different categories such as business, hobbies, or writing. There are several thousand blog carnivals and you want to find those which will be a good fit for your target market so using the categories feature is a great place to start to narrow the search.

Next, once you are in a category list such as writers, you are going to want to look for those blog carnivals that are most recent and most active. One of them in this category is Just Write.

What makes a good blog carnival to be a part of:

Let’s use the Just Write blog carnival as the example here. The reasons why it would be a good blog carnival to participate in is 1) It has a great track record. You know this by looking at the “past posts” tab on this page. You can see right away this blog carnival has been around consistently for about 3 years.
2) On each blog carnival edition (here is the March 13th edition) you can see there are several people who are participating.

To submit an article (blog post) to a blog carnival:
You have found a blog carnival you wish to participate in for the next edition. For instance, let’s say you have picked, Just Write blog carnival. Once on this page, you would click on the orange “submit this carnival button” on the upper right hand side. You will see the submit form where you will place in the url of the page link for the post you want to submit. Then hit enter and then you would place in your name (sometimes this get populated on you put in the url). Enter your email address–> This allows you to receive the notifications of the blog carnival posting. Some carnivals have category areas and you will wish to place your posting in the most relative category.
You are ready to submit!

5 Tips to Success with Blog Carnivals

1) Use the search and categories feature at the top of the home page to save time.
2) Research the most recent and most popular blog carnivals.
3) Remember your target market when posting to the blog carnivals.
4) If there are categories in the specific blog carnival, take the time to place your posting in the appropriate area.
5) Once you receive notification of the blog carnival, be sure to go and become active by commenting on a few other participant blogs.