I have finally seen the light!

It has been nearly a year since I first discovered blog carnivals and tried to make some sense of them. My friend Wayne Hurlbert has continued to post about carnivals on Blog Business World, and I have finally figured out the linking advantage of submitting your own posts to a blog carnival. Everytime you do so, you get a new link from a new blog. Not to mention the exposure to lots of new readers who might become regular readers.

Submit one post a month to your favourite carnival and in a years time there will be twelve new links to your blog. Submit two posts a week to different carnivals (there are many, so your writing may well be suitable for several) and in a years time you will have over a hundred new links! It has to be more effective at getting links that sitting back and hoping another blogger will find your latest brilliant post and link to it.

Having seen the light, I decided it was time to make a carnival for my blogging friends from the arts and crafts community. Carnival of the Creators is the result. I am now looking for submissions for the first edition which will be hosted on my studio blog. I also need hosts from the arts community for subsequent editions.


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