Using Blog Carnivals To Make Money On The (social network) Internet

September 30th, 2008 admin Posted in internet |

By Ben Needles

Blog carnivals are lists of posts that are published on a blog. By hosting a carnival it can create a post and a link to all of the other posts that were submitted prior to that carnival. This can lead to residual search traffic and increased rankings.

Usually when you get published in a carnival, they will link to both your homepage and your post, giving you an opportunity to get an anchor text link to your homepage. So when you submit to each blog carnival, you get to put your blogs name and URL.

For those of you who are not familiar with blog carnivals, theyre basically a group-writing project hosted by sites as a way of sharing good content and community growth. You can find carnivals relevant to your topic at the log carnival website.

It will walk you through the simple submission form you will need. Next, you submit a post of your own that best fits with the theme of the carnival and from there just follow the simple rules.

Many of the carnivals will publish a new issue each week. Submitting your best article or two each week to as many carnivals as possible will be the most productive way to go because of the timing of carnivals.

I believe you can begin to see that by using blog carnivals it will help you to make money on the Internet. There are carnivals for many different topics; youll have to look through them to find what works with your topic.

Blog carnivals often give you both a link to the post you submit and to your homepage. Also, other bloggers have found my other blog this way and liked it so much that they have added it to their blog roll.

Be warned, there are some carnival hosts who feel that some of the entries could be Spam and will refuse your submission based on the use of a keyword. Make sure your material is high quality and relevant.

The deep linking power comes from the fact that if the host of the carnival likes your submission and accepts it, youll get a link directly to your post. And very often you will get another link to your homepage.

Its not uncommon for authoritative sites to host these carnivals. So there are some quality links to be had it youre willing to do the work of regularly contributing posts to the carnivals in your niche and therefore, making the money you desire on the Internet.