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Blog carnivals are free and available for anyone to use. Perform a quick web search on blog carnivals and you can start using them today. They basically help you build backlinks to your site from other similar web sites. Not only will you get a lot of additional traffic, you will also get lots of targeted traffic. The best part is that it's free.
To utilize of blog carnivals there is only one constraint. You must have free articles on your site. Informative articles or how to posts work. If you have a blog on your site with posts that also works. If you don't, then you might consider writing free articles. Search engines love fee articles and they will send you lots of free traffic. You can link to your products or other parts of your website from the bottom of those articles or posts.
Once you have a single article, you simply visit blog carnival's website. You can scan all the different blog carnivals. Find a few carnivals related to your article's subject. So if you article is about nutrition you would try to find health related carnivals. You basically supply the title and URL of your article to a relevant carnival. The Carnival host often posts a link to your article on his/her own web site within a few days.
When the blog carnival host's visitors see the link, many will click it, especially if the article title interests them. Also when the search engine index the carnival host's site, they will see the link to your website. This will increase your search engine ranking. In other words your website will start ranking higher in the search engines, and you will start getting a lot more search engine traffic.
Search engine heavily use inbound links to determine the quality of a web site. In other words the websites that rank the highest in search engines generally have lots of incoming links. Blog carnivals are a legitimate way to contribute value to others and at the same time increase traffic to your website. You are contributing value by writing quality articles and sharing them with others who might find them informative. Similarly you are increasing traffic to your website by increasing incoming links to it.
So you are probably wondering what the catch? Besides if search engine optimization is that easy then why are there consultants charging to do it? Well I don't know. What I do know is that blog carnivals are really that easy to use. I've used them with many of my own sites and watched search engine traffic steadily go up.
I recommend that you submit an article to blog carnivals once every week. It will take about 30 days and then you will start noticing an increase in your traffic. You will have additional search engine traffic. You will also get lots of targeted traffic from the websites hosting the blog carnivals. Also note , there are blog carnivals about all kinds of different subjects such as health, business, personal development, internet marketing, education, entertainment, relationships, and many other subjects. So you don't have an excuse not to try blog carnivals.
I hope you have enjoyed this article, and I wish you the best of luck in your search engine optimization efforts.
Category: BloggingBlog Carnivals: Best Kept SEO Secret was written by:Author:Andrew BAdded: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:55:23 -0400 This Article Has Been Read 74 times View all Andrew B's articlesAbout the Author: This article was written by the editor of the Binge Eating Help blog which contains free tips on Binge Eating Recovery. |
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