Why another blog carnival?
I have been blogging for CreditCards.com for close to three years, and one of the best methods I have found for connecting with other bloggers in the field is blog carnivals. It’s also an incredible way to show off your best posts and get new readers and subscribers. The Carnival of Personal Finance has become massive over the past few years and has helped the personal finance blogosphere become very tight.
I have been searching for carnivals in the travel blog space like this, but nearly everything I have found is inactive, extremely niche, or very small. I wanted to start a robust travel carnival that anyone in the 20something/30something travel set can participate in, so I am launching the Gen Y Travel Carnival.
Instructions and guidelines
The basics
The carnival celebrates travel for 20somethings and 30somethings, and will be published once a month. It is most often hosted by my blog, but other travel blogs will host it some months in the same way that a different personal finance blog hosts the Carnival of Personal Finance each week.
Submission guidelines
- Submit your entry here each month. Entries are due on the last day of each month. It will be published within the first few days of the following month.
- Please only submit one entry each month. Pick your very best! Any travel-related topic is fine.
- The post you submit must have been published within the past month.
- Important: If your post is accepted in the carnival, you must let your readers know by linking back to it or tweeting about it (this is a huge part of what helped the Carnival of PF grow).
The host (me for now) decides which submissions will be included. If your entry was not selected, please don’t be offended and try again the next time!
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Good idea! I’m in.
I think this is a super idea Emily and there are definitely enough Gen-Yers out there to make this work! Now I have to go deliberate on what to submit…
Great idea! I’m sure this will also include college-aged travel bloggers as well (18-20 yr old bloggers too!). At Gtrot we love working with young travel writers too- if you’re looking for more partnership opportunities send me a note brittany at gtrot dot com or friend me on facebook: http://facebook.com/brittany.gtrot
Agreed with Stephanie, now time to pick the best thing to submit…
Best! – Brittany
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This is great idea! Now what should I blog about?…..
Excellent idea Emily. I’ll get right onto submitting a post. Let me know when you’d like help hosting – I’m happy to contribute.
Cool. Are you republishing blog posts, or essentially looking for original guest posts?
Hi Ant! Nope, this doesn’t involve guest posts. I will be featuring existing posts. I won’t be republishing the full post–I’ll write a little blurb about it and give the link back to the full post on the original blog. It’s basically just a round-up of the best stuff out there. Like this, but on a much smaller scale: http://personalfinancejourney.com/2010/06/carnival-of-personal-finance-262-80s-tv-edition/
Here’s an example of a round-up I have done in the past. It will look more like this, except it will be user-submitted instead of me finding and selecting them:
http://maiden-voyage-travel.com/maiden-voyage-must-read-monday-4/
Definitely a great idea! Always good to see a fresh blog carnival, especially one that’s related to travel.
I decided to submit something that I’d very recently published because I was happy with how it turned out. Looking forward to the carnival!
This is a GREAT idea. Every now and then I check the Blog Carnival site to see if I can find anything travel related but like you said, most are inactive or very topic oriented. I’ll have to remember this and be sure to submit something down the line!
Interesting and lots of ways to become involved. I’ll try to do another post on the dangers of picking up little stowaways while travelling and how to avoid them.
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