It's time for another great, informative blog carnival. This time it is the Carnival of Everything Finance second edition. There are many great articles in this carnival and much to be learned! Check it out there have been many great additional articles added since the last time this carnival was up.
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It's Carnival time again! I haven't participated in a blog carnival in a while so a couple weeks ago I went through and joined a couple. Please check out this Carnival of Everything Finance. It has a lot of useful articles on everything from mortgages, to debt consolidation and handling money in general. This carnival will definitely enhance your knowledge of finances. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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It has been a while since I participated in a Blog Carnival but I really want to participate in the Carnival of Home Improvement. As you saw in my previous post we are trying to decide which flooring to put down. I'm hoping that by participating in this carnival I can start getting some input from people who are also improving their house or know a lot about the subject. If you are interested please click the above link and check out the Carnival of Home Improvement!
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It has been a while since we have participated in a blog carnival, but we entered our post about the movie Meet the Robinson's in the Carnival of Cinema. Go check out the carnival and maybe it'll give you some good movie ideas for this weekend! We are planning on seeing Spider-Man 3 tonight and we are very excited. We'll be sure to update you on that movie.
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Did you even know it was possible to get rejected from a blog carnival? I thought it would be pretty hard to get rejected. Yet, I was, and it is going to be entertaining for all the readers out there as to why. There was a misunderstanding in the post I submitted. I won't tell you the blog or even the carnival, just that it had to do with eating out. I submitted a recent article about the amount of unique visitors to McDonald's. So for your discernment and entertainment here is what was said. This is the email I received from the host of this carnival explaining why it won't be playing in the carnival:
Unfortunately, I did not use your submitted article for the Carnival of (something about eating out). I know that my listing said "Almost anything else (within reason) that deals with restaurants and dining out," but I felt that your topic was not newsworthy - rather just a viral marketing post designed to generate income rather than content. I do not begrudge anyone making a buck or two off of their web site, but yours was a blatant viral marketing post, and I did not feel that this was the appropriate venue for that.
I invite you to check out the first edition of the Carnival at (I'm not so nice to give it a link since I got rejected) to see what I had in mind for submissions and I would gladly welcome a re-submission next month if you have a relevant topic that you would like featured.
The blue text is what I added in place of the name of the blog and the carnival. So I decided to nicely tell him what my true intent of that McDonald's post in my reply:
I respect your decision to not accept my post about McDonald's but I did want to clear up one thing for you. My post was in no way designed to generate income for me. The thought about McDonald's signs and how many people they have served struck a funny note with me when I thought of my blogs. Blogs run on visitors and we like unique visitors, so how many of McDonald's billions of visitors were unique? Who knows? This thought was new and original for me. I have never taken the time to think in depth about the McDonald's sign, and my post about it was as sincere as they come. I do admit I have written a few posts that have been used to hopefully get some good ads on my site or to bring in a lot of traffic. This McDonald's post did neither. I thought as members of the blogosphere we could all relate and find humor in this concept that had just struck me. Perhaps the humor I was trying to convey didn't show itself to you.
As I write this letter my husband brings up a point I never thought of. That perhaps my using unique visitors as my relating to McDonald's I was directly talking about this carnival submission and all the unique visitors it would bring to my sight. That never occurred to me. I didn't write this post for the future (who might come to my site as a unique visitor) I wrote in regards to the past, who has been to my site as a unique visitor. I wasn't even really thinking about actual unique visitors, just the concept of them. If anything I thought I wouldn't be accepted in this carnival because you were looking for nicer restaurants than McDonald's.
You credit me with too much deceit. I love blog carnivals. I never have received so much traffic from them that it even makes a considerable difference in my blog earnings, I just think it is fun. I'm sorry for your misunderstanding of the post, and hopefully through this letter you can more better understand my goal in writing it and consider it for next months issue.
Thanks for contacting me and letting me know the situation.
I'd like to hear thoughts, comments, anything about this. My post was meant to be funny, this person took it as a marketing ploy. Apparently what I meant for it didn't come across. What do you the readers think?
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It's that time again! As you probably have figured out by now I am a lover of blog carnivals! I love to write about a carnival topic and I love to be apart of the carnival group. I love to read other people's entries and I love the traffic it brings in to my blog! Now playing: Carnival of Cinema... Get your popcorn ready to read about people's movie reviews! Get some recommendations and a few warnings. Read about people insights into some movies and share your own. Feel free to comment away if you don't agree or even if you do! This should really help you in your movie choices for this weekend and weekends to come! So check out the Blog Carnival of Cinema!! Technorati tags: Blog Carnival, movie, cinema, review
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When I first heard about blog carnivals I wasn't too excited to participated. I would check out the Blog Carnival website but didn't really find anything I wanted to participate in. Recently, though, my attitude has completely changed! I love blog carnivals! There are so many topics that you can pretty much find one to submit any of your posts to. They bring in a lot of quality traffic and blog carnival quests usually leave comments, which is always fun in my opinion. On top of all of these things, they provide a link to your blog. That is the biggest bonus of them all. Some of the blogs that host blog carnivals are members of Technorati, so by participating I have greatly improved my ranking with them, which also helps bring in traffic. It is a wonderful cycle. A couple weeks ago registers with the blog carnival website so I could host a carnival if I wanted to. I do want to, but since I have no idea what goes into hosting I'm a little nervous about messing it up. I am also at a lack of an idea for a carnival. Any suggestions and tips would be very welcome!! Happy Posting!
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I recently joined a site called The Bestest Blog of All Time where you just leave a comment and you get added to their blog roll. Once you become a member of this site they hold blog carnival's that only members can participate. One of those carnival's starts today, so head on over to The Bestest Blog Carnival: The Animal Edition. Also check out The Bestest Blog of All Time and consider joining. It brings in a fair amount of traffic to my site, and I really appreciate it. Have fun at the Animal Carnival!
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The second annual blog carnival of Christmas is up! Please stop by and read some of the entries. This carnival is sure to help your level of Christmas spirit rise as we approach days until Christmas. There are entries in many categories from the Spirit of Christmas, to a very Sci-Fi Christmas, to Charity, and music. There are more categories than that. Check it out and perhaps donate to some of the charities listed on the carnival. Merry Christmas Everyone!
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I am participating in my first ever blog carnival. I have submitted a post about online surveys and whether or not I find them to be scams, what's legit and what's not. Blog carnivals have helped many blogs with traffic, both unique and return visitors. I've decided I want to try and participate in as many blog carnivals as I can so I can get my blog out to a wider audience and hopefully help some people on the way with my findings. If you are interested in reading submissions from this carnival click here . I've also submitted an article into a humor blog carnival but that won't be opening until the beginning of January. When that begins I'll pass the link on for that. If you decide to participate in a blog carnival then good luck and to everyone else happy posting!
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