Yesterday, Athletic Alley instituted our first ever blog carnival. Now, for those that do not know what a blog carnival is, let me explain real quick. Wikipedia list it as "A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly.[1] Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks to other blog articles on the particular topic.".

Blog Carnival describes it as such: A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic. A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editors opinions or remarks.

The blog carnival that we have started is for the world of sports. So you ask, why am I talking about it here? Well, it is simple really. Blog Carnival has many other topics too, including Real Estate. Bottom line is when it is filled out correctly, it can bring you a ton of exposure and best of all, pingbacks. This will help with your Search engine optimization.

Rich Dansereau is the author to Athletic Alley Blog Carnival that actually post each and every Wednesday on Athletic Alley. It is easy to submit an article to him through a form that looks like the screenshot of the widget shown here. All you have to do is click it and it will take you to the submission page. The other way is to find the one that you are looking for on Blog Carnival.

Once you have filled out the form the first time, it is generally emailed to you each and every week to ask if you have another submission. Now, in doing this, I would not recommend that you link more than one article a week per carnival. Using multiple carnivals is a great idea, but using one multiple times for the same edition is generally bad. The author will usually kick you off. So, check out the carnivals today and get more exposure.

About the Author

If you are in the market to purchase a home or even refinance an existing loan and you want a loan officer that will walk with you every step of the way, then contact Danny or Rich of the Thornton Team at Home America Mortgage today. We can have you pre-approval in as little as 4 hours. You can visit our website or send an email to thorntonteam@homeamericamortgage.com or call us @ 865-951-0522.