There is more than one way to increase blog traffic from Blog Carnivals.  Instead of just submitting your own posts to publishers to bring in more readers. You should also look at the other way people are using this service for blog traffic.

Consider hosting your own Carnival

I know this might sound counter intuitive, and probably doesn’t make sense.  After all Why would you post links to other blogs? Aren’t the readers just going to show up, and immediately take off to the other site? You are showing your readers places to go to get more valuable information about your niche. You are becoming a resource for these people, because you are plugged into the topics trends of your subject.

As far as people just jumping off to the other site quickly. Well, I’ve got news for you sparky… people are doing that whether you are providing any links or not. There will always be a percentage of people doing this no matter what you do. Why not give the a good place to go?

Now, I know you might still be skeptical, but consider these two points.

First -  you’ll see the authors who submitted to your carnival visiting. They’ll want to see their submissions you’ve included in your issue. Curiosity and a little bit of vanity come into play. The author’s will have a hard time resisting visiting your site. After all, everyone likes to see their name in print.

Second - some people will link to your blog carnival issues. They will want to direct their readers to your issue because it has a collection of good information on their niche.