One of the questions that needs to be answered in How to Create a Blog is how to get traffic. Your blog is ultimately about traffic. If you write great articles and nobody reads them you are missing half the equation. In order to increase the traffic to your site you need to start getting some good links. We will look at 2 ways to get some good links, Blog Carnivals and Blogging Zoom.

Blog Carnivals

A great place to get started with blog carnivals is BlogCarnival.com. A blog carnival is a place where people submit their articles. The carnival links to your article and to your home page and you get two links. To get started go to BlogCarnival.com and get registered.

Once you are registered and logged in you need to press Browse all carnivals.

You will get the following list.

Click on the arrow next to Next Edition to get the carnivals sorted by what’s coming next. You will see a list like this:

Look through the categories to find one that matches your article. When you have found a good match click on it.

Type in your permalink URL. You can see that mine was http://mynewbieblog.com/create-a-blog-you-can-be-proud-of/. Once you have entered in the permalink URL press Submit.

You can check and see that the connections were made and then hit Submit again. You are now entered in a blog carnival.

Blogging Zoom

BloggingZoom.com is another good way to generate some traffic to your site. To get started go to BloggingZoom.com. Go ahead and get signed up.

Once you are signed up and logged in click on Submit a New Post.

Type in your original content URL (your permalink URL) and press Continue.

Type in some tags for your article and then enter in a description of your article. This description needs to be at least 300 characters in length. If you try and submit it with less then a 300 character description it won’t be accepted. After you have typed in your description choose a suitable category for your article. Press Preview and Submit. Check out the information and then press Submit again.

You are now in Blogging Zoom.

Read and Comment on Other Blogs

Part of being in the blogosphere is reading and commenting on other people’s blogs. This is one of those cases where you want to do unto others as you would have them do to you. Make some time in your schedule to participate in Blogging Zoom by reading the articles that are there and then Zooming the ones you like. The more often you do this, the more often your articles will be zoomed. You are off and running with your blog. Keep writing and submitting articles in order to generate more links and more traffic.