How effective is this carnival for anyone?

I was catching up with the blogs in my reader and ran across this Carnival of Future Millionaires in my reader. It was posted this week, and honestly I had forgotten that I had. (I did not receive an e-mail from the host asking me to link back to the carnival.)

Some things to note about this particular carnival:

* There are 275 posts in the carnival (it’s posted once every four weeks) and nineteen of them were by one author. Sometimes the Carnival of Debt Reduction doesn’t have 19 posts in the entire thing!
* I didn’t receive any notification that the carnival was up. As a host, it’s a good thing to ask your submitters to share the carnival with their readers.
* This is clearly a direct cut-and-paste of the InstaCarnival that BlogCarnival.com provides to hosts near the end of the submission period. Little, if any, editing was done. The InstaCarnival is a good start but it really looks like an InstaCarnival if that’s all that’s done.
* There’s a lot of white space in between the posts. This is an artifact of the way the InstaCarnival comes out of the box.
* There are no comments posted on the carnival as of right now, and it’s been up for over three days. Ouch.

This seems to be an example of “you get out what you put into it.” Getting the carnival ready to go probably took all of ten minutes, if that: Log into BlogCarnival (or open up the e-mail with the link to the InstaCarnival), find it, CTRL-A, log into Blogger, New Post, CTRL-C, Publish, done. But, it looks like the blogger spent all of ten minutes on it, too.

This edition of the carnival is really of minimal use to anyone involved. It’s not really useful to the host, because no one has even commented on it. It’s not useful to the people who submitted because their links are buried amongst nearly 300 others, many of which look like some authors submitted everything they ever wrote to that carnival. And it’s non really useful to the readers because it’s not at all engaging.

I have said before that InstaCarnivals do serve a purpose and that they can bring lots of traffic for little work. I might amend that a little by saying that InstaCarnivals can bring a lot of traffic if they’re already popular. The carnival in question here is a new carnival, so it doesn’t have its audience built up. Unfortunately, InstaCarnivals are not the way to build up a lot of traffic.

I hope How to Make a Million Dollars (the only host of this carnival so far) dresses up the next one a little bit.

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Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 10th Edition

Welcome to the March 26, 2008 edition of Resource for Bloggers blog
carnival.

I must say that I’m impressed with the big number of submissions. Unfortunately, there were a few which were not exactly on topic, so they were not included (sorry, guys!) , but most of them passed through, and here they are. I’d like to thank all authors who took their time to submit their articles.

If you are a blogger who wishes to get more traffic and more recognition, you really could learn a lot from these blog authors who understood the importance of getting links, and who don’t miss a single chance to get more free, easy links, by submitting their posts to all related blog carnivals out there. And they don’t do it just one time: they keep on submitting posts week after week, edition after edition, so now I could correctly guess more than half of the submitters’ names before I even look at the submissions. Well done guys, I hope you get the success you’re working so hard for.

And now, the articles:

Nesher presents Free Online Multi-Site Blog Pinging Services posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying,

“Collection of the free online services to ping your your blog to the multiple search engines”

Taylor Coburn presents How Are You Dividing Your Attention? posted at Internet Business at ProcessToProfits, saying,

“How you divide your time affects your ability to make money with your blog…”

Cate3 presents Lessons learned from playing with polling widgets posted at Why Homeschool, saying,

“Give your readers an easy way to provide you feedback. Henry shares his experience with poll widgets. They are easy to add to your blog.”

Steven Lohrenz presents Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Badly posted at Steven Lohrenz, saying,

“Only losers are good at everything they do. Those people miss all the good opportunities.”

Brian Terry presents Your Website Traffic: 7 Crucial Reasons Why You Should Be ‘Squidooing’ posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Stephen Dean presents Are You Posting To Your Blog Enough? posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Don D. Morrison presents Discover All The Online Company Marketing Links & Stats Worth Knowing! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Write Your First Paragraph posted at Rebecca Dean.

Kenton Newby presents Overcoming Common Excuses for Not Building Your Online Business posted at KentonNewby.com.

Jimmy Sansi presents Memo To Entrecard Users: Get A Clue posted at The Kaizen Business.

Joshua C. Karlin presents Better Than a Blogroll posted at Internet Business.

Jammie presents How to avoid trouble when computer crashes? posted at Glowicki ProBlogger - Blogging Tips, saying,

“With this resources you’ll never loose any blog data!”

Mark Riffey presents Blocking time improves small business owner productivity posted at Business is Personal.

Bill Mcintosh presents Google Penalizing Slow Websites posted at Bill McIntosh.

Marcus Hochstadt presents Why Some Should Change The Permalink Structure posted at Marcus Hochstadt.

James D. Brausch presents Visitor Values posted at Internet Business Blog.

Kathryn presents The 10 Basic Promotion Tools Every Blogger Should Be Using posted at PureBlogging, saying,

“You want people to come to your blog so you need to know how to drive them there. Here are ten top tools to get you started.

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Jose DeJesus MD presents Tips for People Considering a Mac or Macbook posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

Nesher presents Comments as source of a free traffic to your blog posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying,

“Comments posting techniques, features, and recommendations as a way to increase traffic to the blog”

Hank presents How do I publicize my blog? A personal finance blog’s lifeline from “start-up” to “staple” posted at My Investing Blog.

Carol Bentley presents Results are in. . . lessons to learn. . . posted at Carol Bentley, saying,

“Results are in…lessons to learn..”

Ask Matt presents Why Using No WWW Can Boost Your Pagerank posted at BlogTactics.com, saying,

“No www boosts pagerank”

Ask Matt presents RealTraffic Exchange Widget Gets Targeted Traffic posted at IM & Affiliate Marketing Product Testing, saying,

“RealTraffic Exchange Widget Gets Targeted Traffic”

Mattg presents Do You Get Twitter? posted at Matt Garrett, saying,

“Twitter is really a fast growing community site and providing a good environemnt to interacting with people of same thinking or business line. So, go and get a twitter, now.”

Praveen presents Importance of Testing Websites posted at My Simple Trading System.

Stephen Pierce presents YouTube’s Amazing Overlooked Traffic Secret? REVEALED! posted at DTAlpha TalkBack with Stephen Pierce.

Vicky Ayala presents How to increase traffic to your site with blog directories posted at Social Classifieds Network, saying,

“A listing of blog directories to submit your blog to so that you can increase your blog traffic and rankings.”

Edith presents How Do You Measure Success? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Rich Maltzman, PMP presents New LinkedIn Group Established - PM Bloggers posted at Scope crêpe, saying, “If you are a Project Management blogger…”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form.

Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 9th Edition

Welcome to the March 13, 2008 edition of Resource for Bloggers Blog Carnival.

This was again a very active edition, with lost and lots of submissions, with good reads and interesting findings, with shared experiences and blogging
tips.

Let’s see what we have for today:

Dana presents What does blogging mean to you? posted at Principled Discovery. From hobby to business, blogging can have a lot of meanings and can cover many aspects of somebody’s life.

Don D. Morrison presents Discover 18 Common “Link Baiting” Methods (Or Getting More Online Back Links)? The Prime Directive! posted at dondmorrison.com. While I don’t agree with some of these methods, there are good ideas to be followed in this article.

Sabrina Jefferson presents How To Create Your Own Blog posted at Sabrina Jefferson. Actually the article won’t teach you how to create the blog, but you’ll have the chance to buy via Sabrina’s affiliate link a DVD which explains in detail the creation of a Wordpress blog.

James Lewitzke presents Why does your Blog not have Quality Traffic? posted at Lightning Shock, saying,

“Reasons your blog may have low traffic”

GL presents How to get decent traffic to blog posted at Glowicki ProBlogger - Blogging Tips, saying,

“Get free traffic to site.”

This is quite a thorough list of places where you can get some free traffic from.

Woman Tribune presents adgridwork Production Analysis posted at Woman Tribune, saying,

“Free advertising programs are mostly ineffective. Here’s the stats from adgridwork.”

This is a good read, and the results are similar with other people’s tests, so it has been proven once more that you get only what you pay for.

Robert Phillips presents One Size Does Not Fit All posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY. It’s up to you to find your own size and your own way to building a successful blog.

Kenton Newby presents Simple Solutions For the Content Creation Roadblock Nearly All Online Business Owners Face posted at KentonNewby.com. You may already know and do some of the points on this list, but a reminder is always welcome.

Sarah Paine presents Changing Permalink Structure to Maximize SEO posted at Sarah Paine. The method described by Sarah works: I’ve used it here, on All Tips And Tricks, when I changed the permalinks for about 300 posts.

Jimmy Sansi presents Guaranteed Traffic Today Using These 7 Simple Methods posted at The Kaizen Business. Another handy list bloggers can use for getting some more traffic.

Jean Mosher presents Blog for Fun and Profit « Always in Motion posted at Always in Motion. The article presents impressions from a blogging seminar Jean has attended.

Charlotte Babb presents Hello world…Again! posted at Charlotte’s Babblings. Charlotte presents her experience of moving to a self hosted blog and tells us a bit from her life. We can say she’s a winner.

Carol Bentley presents Apparently I am nuts. . . posted at Carol Bentley. Find out what a mind map is, and apply it to your blog. It can make you see things clearer.

Richard McLaughlin presents Stop Pushing Your Foreign Visitors Away by Cindy King posted at Cindy King. Do you have an international audience? How do you address them?

Joshua Dodson presents Using WordPress as a CMS: How to Create a Dynamically-Generated Subject Guide posted at Fragmentist. This is an easy method, thanks to a helpful plugin. The article contains detailed instructions.

Jeremy Neal presents Four Key Learnings for Bloggers from Fortune’s Most Admired List posted at Lead Inspectors, saying,

“Key learnings to help transform your blog into one that readers will admire.”

Aaron Brandon presents Flooded With Links Back posted at Aaron Brandon. If you are really lazy, you can go for Aaron’s suggestion., which is not cheap, and which, in my opinion, may lead to blog carnivals hosts hating you, as it implies a lack of control on what blog carnivals you are submitting your articles.

Terry Dean presents 8 Steps to Create Your Internet Business posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean. This could be a good point for you to start your online enterprise, although the article is a bit superficial.

Woman Tribune presents Social Media for Women and Utilizing sk*rt posted at Woman Tribune. This is definitely a place to check out, because sk*rt’s front page offers another kind of information that the most known social networking places.

Successful Footsteps presents The Importance of the Differentiator posted at Become Successful. You won’t find out too many details from this article, but it can give you some food for thought. Being unique is important, but you have to figure out how to be unique in a way that attracts your audience.


Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Write Your First Paragraph posted at Rebecca Dean. You can try Rebecca’s method and see if it fits for you.

WebSiteWerx presents Google Pagerank 0 Penalty Solution posted at BlogTactics.com. This is interesting, as many of us have been struck by this PR 0 penalty. I’m going to try it on my blog, maybe I’ll get my PR back again.

Nesher presents Utterz-Updating your Blog through Mobile Phone posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying,

“Utterz offers free services allowing you to update your blog remotely through your mobile phone”

Kasumi Kitone presents How I Started To Make Money Online - Part 2 posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying,

“How much money do you really make with your blog? Come on, be honest. This is the second of 2 articles which describe how I finally started to make money online. It’s a work in progress…”

Edith presents Is the New Marketing Stuff Working for You? (Free Live Call with Seth Godin) posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Christine presents Traditional Website vs Blog Format posted at Me, My Kid and Life.

Gavin R. Putland presents Amazon needs ad widget with whitelist product selection posted at /etc/cron.whenever/.

Chris Christensen presents Twitter is the new Digg posted at Inside Chris’s Head, saying,

“Why bloggers should also be twitterers.”

Taylor Coburn presents How Are You Dividing Your Attention? posted at Internet Business and Life at ProcessToProfits.

Henry Cate presents Lessons learned from playing with polling widgets posted at Why Homeschool.

Nesher presents Free Online Multi-Site Blog Pinging Services posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.

That concludes this edition. Many thanks to all authors for sending their articles to us. Also many “thanks & more…” to spammers who thought that everything in this world is a resource for bloggers, from golf lessons to spamming tools or payday loans and cash advances.

I feel like including a short note for those of you who work so hard that overwhelm everybody: if you write a post in which you only tell your readers that you are sorry for not posting any videos lately, please don’t submit it to blog carnivals. The rest of the world cannot find anything useful in the fact that you’ve been busy. I understand that you’ve spent your time submitting your latest 5-6 posts from your latest 2-3 blogs to this single edition of this carnival, but I accepted only what I thought was worth to be mentioned to my readers.

If you want to get featured in this carnival, please submit your blog article to the next edition of Resource for Bloggers using our carnival submission form.

Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 8th Edition

It’s time for a new edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival, which started on 134u.com, then moved here, on All Tips & Tricks for a while, until it will fly away who knows where (you’ll know where, when the time comes).

We surely got a lot of great articles which you can read below, and a lot of not blogging-related articles which you won’t read here.
John Crenshaw presents The Biggest Scam Your Bank Gets Away With Everyday posted at Truthful Lending dot Com, saying,

“This little known scam accounts for a huge portion of fees paid to banks every year and is going on right under your nose. The worst part is, it’s completely legal.”

Not necessarily blogging-related, this article draws an alarm signal over bank scams, so everybody should read this and stay away from that particular bank which is mentioned in the article.

Nesher presents 15 Advices on How to Decrease Danger of Being Banned from AdSense posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.
Good advice, you’d better be reading it if you intend to use AdSense on your blogs.

Edith presents 53 Ways to Make Money on the Internet posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Surely a lot of ways to make money online. Try them one by one, and when you hit the lucky one, multiply your success.

James D. Brausch presents One Minute Marketing Research posted at Internet Business Blog. I’m not so sure how James came up with those percentages, but he seems pretty convinced that this kind of research is good.

Michel Fortin presents Give Your Joint-Venture Offer An Extra Punch posted at The Michel Fortin Blog. Joint ventures can be very productive for both parties, if done properly.

Nigel Swaby presents Video Players for Bloggers posted at StageGold video blog.

Jose DeJesus MD presents Checklists Can Improve Clinical and Business Processes posted at Physician Entrepreneur. Do you have a blogger checklist? If you do, why? If you don’t, why not?

Aaron Brandon presents What To Blog About posted at Aaron Brandon.Go take some inspiration from Aaron, maybe you’ll write your best post after reading this article.

Ed Rivis presents More sales from self-service link building. posted at Ed Rivis.

Michel Fortin presents New Copywriting Software Takes Flight posted at The Michel Fortin Blog. I’m skeptical when it comes to copywriting software, articles rewriters, and stuff like that, but Michel offers a demo version on his blog, and since he’s quite successful, maybe trying it would be a good idea.

Thomas D. Brownsword presents Next Product Is Being Developed posted at Business Action Steps.

Don D. Morrison presents Generating Targeted Traffic from Forums posted at dondmorrison.com.

Sabrina Jefferson presents Decision Making posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Pat B. Doyle presents How To Make Money with Affiliate Programs posted at Pat B. Doyle. Very good advice from Pat. I follow the same way she describes there, and I can tell you it works. I could post a photo of myself holding some check, but I’ll skip it for now. You just have to take my word as it is, go read Pat’s article, then practice on your blog.

Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley. Be straight forward, clear and honest, and things should most probably go well for you, in blogging and not only.

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Improving Your Blog posted at Tip Diva, saying,

“You have a blog, but you don’t have as many hits or readers as you would like. Here are some tips to improve your blog’s overall visibility on the web and attract new readers.”

How many readers would you like, by the way? Which is your ideal number?

Woody Maxim presents My review of Blog Farm Generator posted at Woody Maxim. Woody suggests you should buy this software. I suggest you don’t, before undergoing some more research. Anyway, I checked Woody’s link, and the software is sold out. I still don’t understand how a software can be sold out, as it is not diminishing with every download, but maybe that was the author’s wish, to sell only a limited number of licenses.

Stephen Pierce presents 3 Ways to Make Money Online posted at DTAlpha TalkBack with Stephen Pierce. Everybody knows a lot of ways, but how many actually make that money? I think that if we put all bloggers together with their income, we are a millionaire ;)
Tiffany Colter presents Writing Career Coach: A Pleasant surprise and How I got here Part 2 posted at Writing Career Coach, saying,

“A pleasant surprise on how to have success beginning from the first day of this New Year!”

Don Morrison presents Special Offer! 3 Minute Headline Creator! posted at dondmorrison.com, saying,

“Simple Software Creates More Than 100 Online & Off Line Marketing Headline Combinations All In Single Click… 100% Amazing!”

Sarah Paine presents The Power Is In The Ping posted at Sarah Paine, saying, “A quick method to bring traffic to your blog without a whole heck of a lot of effort.”

Steve Oliphant presents Stop Gambling with Your Future and Start Making Money posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings.

Sarah Paine presents One Link for You Two Links For Me posted at Sarah Paine, saying,

“Create several back links each submission using the suggested site to boost Google page rank.”

Back links are very important, I hope all of you know this by now. Sarah knows it, that’s certain.

Terry Dean presents Using Long Tail Keywords for Profit posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

Sarah Paine presents Traffic Jam Anyone? posted at Sarah Paine.

Ty Hurd presents A complete guide to revenue sources - Monetize your blog! posted at TysBlog.com - Tips, tricks, mumbling, and more… From website advice, to art that is nice…. More money coming your way… open your wallet wide!

Pearl presents Networking - Necessary Investment for Small Businesses posted at :: Interesting Observations ::.

Indeed, networking can bring you more contacts and business than many other channels.

Raymond presents Personal Finance Blogging Is A Time Consuming But Rewarding Part Time Job posted at Money Blue Book. Go see what Raymond’s reward is for this time consuming work.

Brian Terry presents How to develop a Big Selling Affiliate mindset posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog. Do you want a super affiliate mindset? Take care what you wish for, it may come true! But if you are determined to become one of those people who could sell anything to anybody, anywhere and anytime, go read Brian’s article to find out what you have to do next.

M. Cruz presents Things You Need To Know To Pimp Your WordPress Blog On Yahoo! Web Hosting - Installation and Upgrade Issues posted at NOIRLECROI.COM, saying,

“Learn some tricks for your WordPress blog
hosted by Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting.”

The BagLady presents What Makes a Blog Article Popular? posted at xynny.

Nesher presents Free Blogging Communities on Danga Platform posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying,

“Overview of the several free bloggers communities based on Danga blogging platform.”

Rodney Olsen presents Writing Irresistible Blog Posts posted at The Journey - Life : Faith : Family.

Brian Terry presents How to create an affiliate link redirect posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog.

Don D. Morrison presents 10 Superior Methods To Incorporate An Online Marketing Auto-responder posted at dondmorrison.com.

Sarah Paine presents StumbleUpon Site Traffic posted at Sarah Paine, saying,

“Generate an amazing amount of traffic to your site using the StumbleUpon phenomenon.”

Tracy Coenen presents Got the blogging blues? posted at FRAUDfiles.

Brian Terry presents Why you MUST become fanatical at testing and tracking posted at Big Selling Website Design. I can understand this, being myself a fanatic of testing, tracking, checking stats… I even dream about that when I sleep.

Ian Richardson presents Final Five Reasons to Host Your Own Blog. posted at Make Everything EzyAs123. So many people told you to host your own blog and you’re still on free hosting? Read this and maybe it will be the drop which would make you go get your own hosting. If you didn’t know, you can have some for as little as $2 per month. Smoke less, drink less and get web hosting.

Dana presents What does blogging mean to you? posted at Principled Discovery.

This is the end, my friend. If you want to be featured in this carnival, submit your blog article to the next edition of resource for bloggers using our carnival submission form.

And please, if your article is about the shoelace of the left shoe of the man who saw my cat sitting on the windowsill and counting sparrows on a wire, please DO NOT SUBMIT IT. I’m not a nice girl, so I won’t publish it!

Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 6th Edition

Welcome to a new edition of the Resource For Bloggers blog carnival. Initiated by Diana at 134u, made successful by her high standards, by her readers and by the quality of the articles, Resource For Bloggers has got a new temporary home here, at All Tips And Tricks, for the next 4 editions. In the first place, I’d like to thank Diana for choosing me to host the carnival for the next couple of months. Secondly, I invite you to browse today’s articles and to come back for a chat (via comments).

Machione presents Blogging About Blogging What I’m Blogging About In My Blog posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune, saying,

“Some insight about coming up with bloggable material”

Jay presents You Are NOT Chow, Schoemaker or Rowse – So Don’t Try to Be! posted at ‘Dat’ Money.com, saying, “Good article for bloggers for being yourself and don’t let anyone change you!”

Vahid Chaychi presents Drive More Free Targeted Traffic to Your Site and Business Through Google Base posted at Home Business Solutions, saying:

Google Base is a new service from Google. You can drive a lot of free targeted traffic to your website or offline business through it. You just need to learn how to use it.

Idea for bloggers: Google Base could be a good solution for those of you who already published an ebook and are currently seeking for promoting it with barely any marketing budget. Has any of you already published an eBook?

GP presents New Year, New Business? posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range, saying:

When you start a business, you have to watch your costs like a madman or madwoman.. Pretty obvious wouldn’t you say? You need a road map.

Idea for bloggers: Since most of you are trying to treat blogging like a business, you could use this reminder of the habits for business success. Which one do you think is more important for attaining success?

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Learning HTML Basics posted at Tip Diva, saying:

Many websites - blogs, social networking platforms and online communities, in particular - allow you to use Hyper Text Markup Language (or HTML, for short), to spiffy up your posts. Basic HTML allows you to change your font, add images, create links and more. Here are some of the most popular HTML tags used on those websites.

James D. Brausch presents Internet Business, 101 » Top Nine Internet Business Blogs posted at jamesbrausch.com.

Andrew Erickson presents Recommended: Targeted Blog Traffic Course posted at WebSite Werx.

Mystery presents 8 SOLID Ways To Turbo - Boost Your Blog’s Visitors For 2008! posted at Mystery Online Autoincome Turbo Cash Money Making Systems. You’ll see that perpetuum mobile is still to be invented, and even automated money making systems require some work and skills.

Carol Bentley presents Does your business pass the “Charlie the Plumber” test. . . posted at Carol Bentley. I bet most of you have no idea who Charlie the Plumber is. Neither do I, but his test surely rocks!

IM Z2H presents FREE - The easiest way to make money I’ve ever seen! posted at Internet Marketing Zero 2 Hero Blog, saying,

“One of the quickest, easiest ways to make money online I’ve ever come across. I’ve written a quick post with a link to this gobsmacking report so everyone can get their own copy. (It’s 100% free and doesn’t require any email sign-ups.) WARNING: There’s a twist at the end of this report that will stun you, so be sure to read it through to the end. If your blog has decent traffic, this shockingly simple idea could be a significant passive income stream for you.”

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Kick Writers’ Block posted at Rebecca Dean.

Ian Richardson presents Abbott & Costello - “Who’s On First?” - A lesson to the Internet Marketing Crowd posted at Make Everything EzyAs123. Listen to Ian’s advice and take advantage of the classics.

Jones Hansen presents 0tutor.com: All the free RSS icons you will ever need posted at 0tutor.com tutorials blog. Except the Easter Bunny feed, everything else is there, and it’s free to download.

Stephen Dean presents Tapping Michel Fortin’s Brain Volume 2 posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Jay M presents Re-evaluate and measure your marketing strategy in 10 steps posted at 4 entrepreneur, saying,

“Re-evaluate and measure your marketing strategy in 10 steps”

Mark Riffey presents Can your site handle 12 people an hour? posted at Business is Personal.

Richard Lee presents The One Thing You MUST Learn To Succeed In Any Business posted at Richard Lee.

Ed Rivis presents How to optimise a homepage. posted at Ed Rivis.

Ron Ruiz presents 22-Year-Old Trash into Successful Business posted at The Business Ideas-Making Money Blog.

Tim Gary presents How to Make Time Out of Thin Air posted at Tim Gary. Hey, Tim! Can you make some 1000 hours for me? No kidding, Timothy’s considerations are thoughtful and true.

Diana13 presents Improve your RSS feed posted at My lucky number 13, saying:

You may ask: what in the Earth could I improve more to my RSS feed? Well, there is a way to make some improvements, by adding a footer to your RSS feed. I saw that many bloggers don’t take advantage from this valuable space, though you can use it in so many ways. So, what can you do with this footer and how?

This is telepathy! Just before receiving Diana’s submission to the carnival, I was telling myself that I should take advantage of this space and send you a joke in my feed, with every post.

Another submission from Diana13, also posted at My lucky number 13: Free advertising with Entrecard. Diana has a good advice for you:

If your blog is new, just launched or you have low traffic, Entrecard is a good way to drive traffic to your blog and to get known. You don’t have to work too hard for this and you can advertise on high traffic blogs without spending any money. How cool is that?

I tried it, and it’s cool (and pretty much addictive, I would confess). See it for yourself!

Aruntheace presents Make money online with automated Youtube niche video sites – Made for Lazy people! posted at www.aruntheace.com.

James D. Brausch presents How to Feel Successful posted at Internet Business Blog. We surely need to take care of our motivation, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to be persistent and patient in our journey to success, would we?

Ed Rivis presents Blog Policy #1: Honesty. posted at Ed Rivis. I would say that this should be the life policy no 1, not only applicable to blogs, but to your whole activities and contacts.

Brent Diggs presents Writing Prompts for the Not-So-Prompt posted at The Ominous Comma, saying, “Humor for writers”

Kasia presents Add URL Submit Site to Search Engines FREE posted at Glowicki ProBlogger - Blogging Tips. Kasia’s list is good, but if you know some more free places to submit a blog, you are invited to add them in the comments. Kasia promised to update the list continuously.

Martin Smith presents How I Doubled my RSS Subscriber Count Over Night posted at My quest to make money on the internet.

Mitch presents 16 Free Blog Reviews to Raise Your Presence and Authority posted at Money News, saying,

“Bloggers starting out should always try to get their blogs reviewed just to get some feedback on their site or posts. These reviews are also a great way to gain some back links to your blogs. This post contains a list of 18 bloggers who do free reviews for your blogs to get you started.”

Stephen Dean presents Deciphering Cosmopolitan Magazines posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Kenton Newby presents 6 Surefire Strategies for Writing Better Articles or Blog Posts posted at KentonNewby.com.

Brian Terry presents Here’s how you really use the web (and it’s not what you think!) posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Jessse Hines presents How Much Time Should Professional Writers Spend Blogging? and Want to Write Better? Read Some Road Signs, posted at Vigorous Writing.

Michael@TSM presents Travel Writing Contest! Win $150 Cash Prize | Traveling Stories Magazine posted at Traveling Stories Magazine.

Sarah Paine presents Compose Your First Book with Articles posted at Sarah Paine.

Kitone presents Warning: Easiest Ways To Make Money Online - Use Caution posted at Best Ways To Make Money Online, saying,

“What are the pitfalls of one of the easiest ways to make money online. This article looks at the risks then proposes an alternative for those looking for ways to make money online.”

Fred Black presents Search Engine Ranking Factors posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog.

Tip Diva presents Top Ten Tips - Using Blog Carnivals posted at Tip Diva, saying,

“Carnivals, or blogs that host a page filed with links to posts about a particular subject, are a great way to get your voice (and blog) heard. Here are tips on how to use blog carnivals to your advantage.”

Brett presents How To Monetize Blogger Blogs posted at Monetize Your Blog.

Blue Skelton presents Media Production and Presentation in Blogging posted at Blue Skelton Publications.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents “What Is It Makes Some Letters Pay”? posted at Rebecca Dean.
This is all for today.

Many thanks to all authors for taking time to submit their articles to Resource For Bloggers.

Your article can be featured here, too. Just write it, then use our carnival submission form and come back to see it published in the next edition, on February 13th.

Resource For Bloggers: Submit Your Best Posts Now

This is just a quick note for all readers who are also bloggers and blog about blogging by blogging on their blogs about other bloggers’ blogs:

A new blog carnival has just launched. It is called Resource For Bloggers, and it aims to become a reference for blogging newbies, for people who are thinking to pursue their online dream and start a blog.

So, if you have any blog posts ideas, blog traffic tips, tools and plugins for blogging, blog monetization advice, writing tips, online marketing best practice examples, advertising resources or other articles that could improve the blogger’s life, you still have time to submit your posts to the first edition, which is going to be published on November 13th.

Why exactly on 13th? Please don’t be so superstitious! It’s because it is hosted by 134u (to be read “thirteen for you”), so that’s nothing spooky in there. The host is waiting for your articles.

Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 7th Edition

Time has come to publish the 7th edition of Resource For Bloggers blog carnival.

We’ve got a lot of interesting stuff, which hopefully will answer some of your concerns or questions related to blogging.

Bennie presents Technology and Blogging as a Learning Method posted at Technology Matter, saying, “Some opinions on how to use blogs and technology as a learning method.”

Susan Johnston presents Why I Still Use Blogger posted at The Urban Muse.

Jeremy Neal presents Widgetbox Adds Free Bling to Your Blog posted at Lead Inspectors, saying, “Widgets can add both fun features and engaging content to your blog, as well as provide useful information to your blog readers.”

Sarah Paine presents Discover Niche Markets to Earn Extra Money Working Online posted at Sarah Paine.

Frederic Patenaude presents Willpower is Overrated posted at Frederic Patenaude Talks, saying, “A great blog resource about how willpower is overrated, and how to manifest real personal development and success. The When , Why and How to the equation.”

Kenton Newby presents 6 Tips for Better Recordings When Creating Your Infoproducts posted at KentonNewby.com.

Dwayne Tucker presents A conversation about advertising, with David Ogilvy posted at Dwayne Tucker - PhotoShop Blog / Tutorials, saying, “David Ogilvy gives advice to young advertisers”

Nesher presents Forums Participation posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World.

Iyabo Oyawale presents Blogging? What is It? Can I Make A Living With It? posted at Ask Iyabo Oyawale.com.

Lin Burress presents Social Networking Tips For All You Whiners posted at Telling It Like It Is.

Sarah Paine presents Fine Tuning Procrastination posted at Sarah Paine.

HL Grove presents 4 Steps To Creating Quality Content For Your Blog posted at MoneyWeb24.

Natalie presents The most popular layouts of the Top 20 Technorati blogs posted at I love technology, saying, “A study of the layout and colour scheme of the Top 20 Technorati blogs, complete with graphs.”

Carol Bentley presents Cultural communication differences. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Tim Gary presents Drama = Rocket Fuel For Success posted at Internet Success Bites.

Ed Rivis presents More Content = More Sales. posted at Ed Rivis.

Richard Lee presents Internet Business Ideas posted at Richard Lee.

Nigel Swaby presents Anatomy of a Blog Post - Embedding Videos Quickly posted at StageGold video blog.

Kenton Newby presents 10 Ways Article Writing Can Stack the Deck in Your Favor posted at KentonNewby.com.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Research 5 Times Faster posted at Rebecca Dean.

Raymond presents Blogging As a Business and Registering a Trade Name | Money Blue Book posted at Money Blue Book.

Amanda Fazani presents Why your blog design needs to be unique! (Blogger Template Series) posted at Blogger Buster, saying, “Hello there, I generally write about Blogger, though I hope this article will be relevant to your blog readership! Please let me know if this is okay. I’ve read your previous carnivals and have seem some great submissions there. Thank you for providing us with such great resources :)”

Marcus Hochstadt presents Getting Your Pages Indexed In A Matter Of Hours posted at Marcus Hochstadt, saying, “There exist several methods for getting your Web sited and pages indexed in a matter of hours. In this article, Marcus Hochstadt shares one of them. You set it up once and then put it on auto pilot. Wonderful!”

Dave Origano presents The Growth Stages Of My Online Business posted at Online Marketing & Exponential Business Growth Blog.

Tiffany Washko presents Join the Tour and Go to the Carnival posted at Tiffany Washko - Mother, Writer, Environmentalist.

Aaron Brandon presents Your Linking Efforts posted at Aaron Brandon.

Blue Skelton presents Production Blog: The Biggest List of Blog Directories by Page Rank posted at Blue Skelton Publications, saying, “Here is the biggest list of the best blog
directories that you can find sorted by page rank. These are the blog directories that can be the most beneficial to your blog’s page ranking. And so therefore they are worth the reciprocal links required by the directories. I have grouped them in order of page rank to more efficiently organize your SEO Needs.”

Ed Rivis presents Social networking? Maybe next time. posted at Ed Rivis.

Diana Bajenaru presents Basic terms for beginners posted at EzMoneyOn.Net, saying, “If you are a beginner, than this post is the right place for you. This will be an ongoing list which we’ll complete with new terms, as we remember them or as you ask for them.”

Diana Bajenaru presents Free traffic for your blog posted at EzMoneyOn.Net, saying, “Ok! You have started your own blog, you have written a few articles and you want to start to earn some money. Now what?”

Don D. Morrison presents Generating Targeted Traffic from Forums posted at dondmorrison.com.

Jimmy Sansi presents Kaizen Your Traffic posted at The Kaizen Business.

Raymond presents Personal Finance Blogging Is A Time Consuming But Rewarding Part Time Job posted at Money Blue Book.

Adrian presents How to Successfully Advertise Your Blog posted at Path to Your Destiny.

Nesher presents Blogger vs WordPress: Review for the Newbie Blogger posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying, “Brief comparison of the two most popular blogging platforms: Blogger and WordPress”

Woman Tribune presents Wordpress Upgrades to Version 2.3.3 posted at Woman Tribune.

Pat B. Doyle presents How I Increased My Feedburner Subscriber Number By 47% In One Day posted at Pat B. Doyle.

Tiffany Colter presents Lesson Learned and How I got here posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, “This blog discusses how to have success beginning from the first day of this New Year!”

DotLobby presents Make Money Blogging - How to Get Started posted at DotMakeMoney, saying, “Currently, there are over 70 million ongoing attempts to make money blogging. That means there’s obviously something to this whole Blogging Bonanza, but it also means there is a lot of competition out there…”

Veeravalli presents Most common mistakes blogger ’s make with Adsense to get their account blocked ! - Technova posted at Technova.

The Investor’s Journal presents What I’ve Learned About Blogging After 2 Months posted at The Investor’s Journal, saying, “Just like anything else out there, blogging is much more difficult than it originally seems. The amount of knowledge a blog author has to have in both websites and their topic of choice is what ultimately leads to most blogs being abandoned within the first year. This is what I learned after blogging for two months.”

Mert Erkal presents 4 Keys To Blogging Success posted at searchforblogging.com.

This is all for today.

Many thanks to all authors for taking time to submit their articles to Resource For Bloggers.

Your article can be featured here, too. Just write it, then use our carnival submission form and come back to see it published in the next edition, on February 26th.

Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money

Welcome to the April 24th edition of the “Blog It and Earn It” blog carnival! Initiated by Jane Chin, at BlogItAndEarnIt, the carnival has now a different host every week. This edition, it is my pleasure to be the proud host of Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money.

To make it easier for all of YOU to find blogs that are using Do Follow (a plugin that removes the No Follow tag from comments links), Colleen Caldwell at GeekySpeaky, officially starts a challenge called Do follow the “d list”, which can increase links to your blog and boost your comments.

What can you possibly do with a SOAP? Wash yourself? Not this time. It is a concept called the SOAP (Scratch One Another Program), initiated by Business Wire and presented by Shamelle, together with an example of Using Constructive Feedback To Polish My Mirror, posted at Enhance Life.
The SOAP program is now closed, but you can participate in the next program, so keep an eye on it.

If you want to start a blog without investing any money, Jim Dorey (also known as ‘Two Story Dorey’) at Monthly Check, presents you easy to follow, ILLUSTRATED, free instructions on how to set up and make money with your FREE blog from mainly Blogger.com. Many updates weekly. In this update, you can learn about Settings: Basic and Publishing.

Life as a professional blogger, the way Anthony from The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune is presenting it can be very rewarding. You will find here a review of all the Pay per Post reviews Anthony did in his life as a professional blogger. The portfolio is quite impressive! Anthony must have earned a lot of money out of those reviews.

Joe Caterisano from Make Money Blogging, introduces you to AdSense marketing and secrets. All you need to know about AdSense: how to set it up, what channels are and why they are useful, and many more hints to help you get the most out of this contextual advertising program from Google.

Favicons (a.k.a. favorites icons) help promote your brand and create an identity for your website. Find out how to get one for your blog, from Joshua Dorkin, who presents What is a Favicon for Your Website? How to Create a Favicon.ico file? posted at TimeForBlogging.

Many thanks to all participants and to Jane Chin, who had the great idea of Blog It and Earn It: Fact and Fiction about Blogging for Money. Enjoy!