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Sites to Promote a Blog Carnival

Drive Traffic to a Blog Carnival by Announcing it on These Sites

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Blog carnivals can be a great way to network with other bloggers, increase the number of quality incoming links to your blog (which helps with your Google page rank), and boost traffic to your blog. It's not difficult to start a blog carnival, but once you start it, you need to promote it for it to be successful. Following are the best sites to promte your blog carnivals to maximize exposure.

1. About.com Web Logs Forum

You can promote your blog carnivals or find carnivals to join right here in the About.com Web Logs forum where there is a folder dedicated to blog carnivals. Just register for a free About.com Web Logs account, so you can post to the forum. Then you can post your own blog carnivals and comment in all folders and conversation threads in the forum.
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2. Forums

If you belong to forums related to your blog topic where other bloggers spend time, announce your blog carnival and invite other bloggers to participate.

3. Social Networking Sites and Groups

Are you connected on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or other social networking sites with other people who blog about similar topics to your blog topic? Are you a member of any LinkedIn groups targeted to your blog topic? These are great places to promote your blog carnival and invite other bloggers to participate.

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