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What is a Blog Carnival?

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Question: What is a Blog Carnival?
Answer:

A blog carnival begins with a blogger who hosts the carnival. The host chooses a topic for the carnival than puts out a call for submissions to other bloggers asking them to participate in the carnival.

Participating bloggers publish a post related to the blog carnival topic on their own blogs then send the link to that post to the blog carnival host. Participating bloggers are also expected to promote the carnival on their own blogs driving traffic to the host's blog.

On the date of the blog carnival, the host publishes a post on his or her own blog that includes links to the participants' submitted posts thereby driving traffic to the participants' blogs.

Follow the link for information about blog carnivals.

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