If you're looking for a quick and simple way to drive more traffic to your blog, consider blog carnivals. Until recently, I didn't know what a blog carnival was so if that's new term to you don't be concerned. I'm not certain where the term carnival came from but one blog owner will host the carnival each week and you submit a post that could be included in the blog carnival at the host's discretion as long as you submit before the deadline.

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 take it a step further, you can do a more specific search. For example search for "success blog carnivals" if you blog is about success. You might find a few new blogs to add to your reading list in addition to finding a blog carnival that will drive traffic to your blog. There's no time like the present to get started. It only takes a moment to find a blog carnival and submit a post for the upcoming carnival. You may be surprised at how easy it is...and by how much traffic you get.