Steve Pavlina Uses Blog Carnivals To Attract 50,000 Visitors

Not a bad number indeed! And to think you too can copy what he has sucessfuly been doing and get that sort of traffic or more yourself.

What is a blog Carnival?

Think of it as being a type of "blogging community. On the internet there are millions of blogs and maybe millions of niche categories making up one pile of articles. A Carnival community collects the blogs together of a specific niche or topic and groups their articles together. Think magazine, in which your niche is published weekly, monthly or however often the publisher see's fit.

How does this benefit Me?

Well for starters it gives your articles a much broader audience. And with some well written content it will attract readers to your blog. Carnivals also offer one way inbound links to your site which weigh more than a traded or reciprocal link exchange and they are FREE.

So find yourself a Carnival that fits closely to your blogs niche, pick your best articles and content and submit those articles to get them published. Not a bad way to gain a handful of new subscribers to your RSS feeds or perhaps even hundreds with each round of submissions.

Steve Pavlina wrote, How To Make Money From Your Blog, and in this article he states,

In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog for free. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club - they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore.

With that said, why are you still here reading? Go submit to your Blog Carnival!
And Best of Luck!