Thanks for the comment, and welcome to OBV! I’ll be by some time and check your stuff out.

ari

Sorry for the late response, and to hear that you are not continuing with your blog carnivals. I’m hosting a carnival of personal development at the moment, to be published on 5 Jan. I’ve received almost 100 submissions already, and can understand that it’s a lot of work to go through all of them! I did pick out a few good ones as editor’s picks, but agree with you that it takes time.

If you’d like to have access to the long list of posts, do visit my blog on 5 Jan, or subscribe now because it’s only a post or two away!

Thanks for featuring my post on this last carnival.

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Sorry about the delay of this reply.

Yes, I suppose you’re right that blog carnivals meet that need. I’m glad I did run it for a while, though at this point, I’m excited to stop doing it. There are other ways to expose my readers to other bloggers who I think are great.

Best of luck to you!

ari

I look at blog carnivals as a trickle down method. It won’t get you huge traffic overnight, but like commenting or participating forums, it gives people more opportunities to find your content.

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See my comment to Melinda above — just compiling the list isn’t a lot of work at all. I did use to do more work with the submissions, but I just came to a point where I felt like it was time spent on something that really wasn’t serving anybody’s needs very well.

Blog Carnival apparently was a more effective promotional tool a few years ago (at least Pavlina makes it sounds like it) but I don’t think it is any longer.

But do look through them, I’m sure you’ll find quality posts.

ari

Actually, no, I didn’t compile this list. All you do is go to blogcarnival.com, create a carnival, and you receive submissions. And they even create the list for you that you can paste into your blog.

I used to go through them, read all and pick the 10 best, added my comment on the ones I liked — but it took a lot of time and I just felt that it really wasn’t solving anybody’s problems or serving anybody’s needs.

But do look through them. I’m sure you’ll discover some quality new blogs.

ari

All the best
-Ross

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Since you are the one who compiled this comprehensive list, I am sure these are all quality websites. I plan to check out most of them within the next several days, so I have book marked this thread as a reference.

I am still pretty new to blogging–I never even heard of a blog carnival before–but I do love a good party!

Melinda

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Have fun! There are some good ones in there. Check out the older editions, too. There were surprisingly few repeat submitters.

ari