There are many ways to drive traffic to a blog and blog carnivals are one of them. Don't worry if you've never heard of a blog carnival. I'm not sure why it's called a carnival but roughly each week a blog owner will host the carnival and other blog owners submit posts from their blogs for consideration. There is a deadline for submissions which is usually a day or two before the blog carnival.

After the deadline passes, the blog carnival host will read all the submission and choose the best posts. Then he or she will make a post on his or her blog with links to those posts. Each blog carnival host is different some may select the top ten and provide a reason for their selections. Others will just post links to the top articles in his or her opinion.

Lots of bloggers follow the blog carnivals around the blogosphere from week to week so they generate traffic and blog carnival visitors will have the opportunity to visit your blog by clicking on the link to your post in the blog carnival. Blog carnivals are generally topical so you'll need to find a blog carnival on a topic related to your blog but that should not be difficult. And if you'd like, some blog carnivals will allow you to host the blog carnival on your own blog.

If you don't know where to start looking for a blog carnival, all you have to do is search for the term "blog carnival" in your favorite search engine. Try blogcarnival.com too. That site has a listing of over 1,000 blog carnivals on a variety of topics one of which will certainly meet your needs. It only takes a few minutes to submit a post. Just select a recent post from your blog and submit the url along with your name and email address. That's all there is to it.

If you want to look for even more blog carnivals, you might search for "pet blog carnivals" for example if you have a blog about pets. Not only will you find several blog carnivals and get some free traffic, you'll also probably find a few good blogs you might want to read yourself. So go ahead and take a few minutes right now to find a blog carnival on a topic relevant to your blog and submit a post. Once you see how easy it is and get a post selected for a blog carnival, you'll see the results in your traffic statistics.