Hi everyone! It’s me again – Alfa doing some guest-posts for the lovely readers of JustMakeMoneyOnline.com.

Shai mentioned that joining group writing projects and blog carnivals should be a part of the to-do list of a blogger with a new blog. I couldn’t agree more.

For the uninitiated, a blog carnival is a collection of links of various blogs dealing with a certain topic while a group writing project is an activity wherein a blogger requests others bloggers to submit their blog posts regarding a certain topic. One of the differences between the two is that a blogger hosting a group writing project is the only one who will ever host that project, while a blog carnival may be hosted by different bloggers depending on the discretion of the person who started that blog carnival. Another is that usually, a group writing project will give a prize to the blogger who has met certain criteria upon joining the project.

So let’s get down to business and learn how to definitely make the most out of these blog traffic building activities.

1. Write Your Best Blog Post

Although this tip is similar to just having your visitors enjoy the best meal, it’s only logical that you write your most impressive and most informative blog post ever or just search through your archives and look for that one that has gained the most comments.

It may be harder to gain more backlinks from blog carnivals since only the host is obliged to link back to your post. But if you come up with a definitely unique post, things can become rosier. Group writing projects may help you gain more backlinks since most of these group writing projects such as Problogger’s and DailyBlogTips‘ require or encourage other participants to link to other blogs that they deem worthy of link love.

2. Use SEO Techniques

If you are just about to write a blog post for a group writing project or a blog carnival, make sure that you use some SEO techniques. One is using keywords that you’d like your blog to be associated with, say for JMMO – Make Money Online at Home: The Do’s and Don’ts.

The backlinks that you’ll earn will definitely make use of that title which will be the blog post’s anchor text. It’s important to optimize your post’s title because like article marketing, some SEO can go a long way. No matter how few backlinks that your blog will get will still count as votes to your blog for the anchor text that you used. I tried this for my work-from-home blog for certain keywords and I’ve noticed considerable increase of traffic from searches for the keywords I used when I participated once in a group writing project.

3. Participate to Blog Carnivals that Cater to Your Niche

Relevance is the name of the game. You don’t want to spam blog carnivals with blog post submissions that are not related to your blog’s topic. For JMMO, business and money and finance blog carnivals will suit it just fine. But it won’t hurt to dig into other categories, too.

4. Research about the Readers of the Group Writing Project’s Host

No you don’t have to directly write about online dating if your blog is about making money online just because the group writing project’s host blog is about online dating. But you may want to write about something like how to make money online through online dating (referral programs). The key is to be creative in striking the fancy of the target market of the host blog.

5. Host a Group Writing Project or a Blog Carnival Yourself.

The great thing about hosting these blogging activities is that you get better chance of getting more eyeballs for your blog. However, one should take note that it is more likely that you’ll get the most out of it if your blog already has some great content up before hosting one. This is to improve the chances of making visitors subscribe to your blog’s feed.

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Blog Carnivals and Group Writing Projects: 5 Tips to Increase Blog Traffic Using Them

Problogger Darren’s group writing projects have always been successful. Everyone who joins benefit in one way or another.

Bloggers who participate by writing something tackling the project topic not only get to have fun getting creative on their entries, they get exposure, too. Hey Problogger has 22,000+ RSS subscribers as of this writing! Imagine getting a link to your blog on this very well-read blog. Aside from getting an inbound link from Darren’s blog, there’s a chance of getting more exposure as the other participants of the group writing project are invited to pick submissions or blog posts that interest them and post them on their own blogs. Sweet, eh?

Advertisers or sponsors will not be neglected either since aside from getting a backlink from the Problogger blog, all participants are required to promote their sites, too.

Why talk about this? Darren’s cooking another group writing project! Just recently, he has posted his search for a sponsor. Yes, A sponsor, because he’s planning to give the spotlight to only one sponsor this time.

If you’re interested, what are you waiting for? Grab that sponsorship.

  

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Problogger Group Writing Project Sponsor Needed