The Weight of Money

Blog carnivals are a great way to highlight some of your recent posts, see what is popular, and find new writers. However, they can be very long (one had 77 entries) and wading through all those articles gets time consuming. Because of this, I find it frustrating to see the same articles posted to multiple carnivals.

My blog carnival experience began with the Carnival of Personal Finance (CoPF)and I assumed that their guidelines for submissions was standard for all carnivals:

Do not submit an article which has already appeared or will appear in any other Carnival.

However, before getting up on my high horse, I reviewed the guidelines of the other carnivals/festivals and found that this is a somewhat unique guideline. Therefore, submitting an article to multiple carnivals (as long as you don’t submit it to CoPF) appears to be acceptable. While it may be acceptable, I still find it annoying and inconsiderate to carnival visitors and will not include links to any articles submitted to multiple carnivals.

Writers that submit unique articles to each carnival give me a reason to explore their sites further; those just linking up the same article give me the impression that they are only looking for traffic and are exploiting the resources available to get it.

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