The next Carnival of Pregnancy is this Friday.

"If you have a post on anything pertaining to pregnancy (yours or someone else's) please go over to BlogCarnival and submit it!. All you need to do is fill out the easy form. All entries are due by Wednesday."

You can see many such announcements on the home page of blogcarnival.

I strongly believe this can be the top blog promotion method.

What is a Blog Carnival?
In short, a blog carnival is dedicated to a particular topic and anyone who has a blog post in that topic, can participate in the blog carnival by just submitting the pernmalink for his/her blog post.

In their words:
"A Blog Carnival is a particular kind of blog community. There are many kinds of blogs, and they contain articles on many kinds of topics. Blog Carnivals typically collect together links pointing to blog articles on a particular topic.

A Blog Carnival is like a magazine. It has a title, a topic, editors, contributors, and an audience. Editions of the carnival typically come out on a regular basis (e.g. every Monday, or on the first of the month). Each edition is a special blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted, often with the editor’s opinions or remarks."

Ok, let me give you a few examples of blog carnival.
Carnival against child abuse at Survivors Can Thrive!
Carnival of the recipes at Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea
Carnival of career intensity at The Career Intensity Blog

I agree with BC that blog carnivals are the best way for bloggers to recognize each other's efforts, and get to know each other in their niche.

So, when you browse through the huge list of carnivals, I am sure you will participate in many.

Get to know Bloggoggle.

We all know about blog directory-a collection of blogs arranged by different categories.

Do you know bloggers' directory which is a directory of bloggers?
It is called Bloggoggle.

About bloggoggle:
This is a fantastic communication tool for bloggers who wish to share their unique expertise and also tap into the insights of other bloggers worldwide.

You can say it as a customized directory of blogging professionals.
It will help building and sharing networks of industry expertise.

I quote them:
“One of the great things about bloggoggle is the depth of its growing database of professionals. In business, arts, science and manufacturing – across sectors and communities of interest – you’ll find what’s relevant and be relevant to others. Before you can trust an expert, you need to find one.Trust us. You’ll find one.”


Features:
Include in your profile, your blogs and websites.
Upload your photo.
Invite leaders in your network.
Get yourself rated.
Search by several options.

An excellent resource for bloggers. Please share it with others.

Blog Glossary.

Know these terms and abbreviations that are regularly found in the blogosphere.

BLOGGING
Weblog-An online dated diary listing your periodic thoughts on a specific topic, often in reverse chronological order.
Blog-Short form for weblog
Blogging -the act of posting on blogs
Blogger - a person who blogs
Blogosphere - The internet blogging community

BLOGGING FORMS
Photoblogging - a blog predominantly using and focusing on photographs and images. Photoblogs are created by photobloggers
Podcasting - a method of distributing multimedia files (audio / videos) online using feeds for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are created by podcasters.
Autocasting - is an automated form of podcasting
Blogcasting - the blog and the podcast merged into a single website.
Vlogging - Also called video blogging. Shortened to vlog. Posted by vlogger. A variant on the blogging using video instead of text.
Audioblogging - Also called audioblog, MP3 blog or musicblogs. a variant on the blogging using audio instead of text. Created by audioblogger.
Moblogging - Also called moblogs. A blog posted and maintained via mobile phone. Moblogs are created by mobloggers.

BLOG COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS
Captcha - short for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. Those word and letter verification images you need to type in to show you are human and not a bot. Helpful to block automated spam comments.
Ping - Short for Packet Internet Grouper. Blog and ping helps to notify other blog tracking tools for updates, changes and trackbacks.
Trackback - A system by which a ping is sent to another blog to notify that their article has been mentioned by you
Permalink - A link to a specific article
Tags - labelling / attaching keywords to collect similar posts
Tag cloud - Displaying tags lists or keywords in a blog.
Blogroll - list of links to other blogs in your sidebar.
Sideblog - A smaller blog usually placed in the sidebar of a blog.
Template - the blog presentation design
BlogThis - a function allows a blogger to blog the entry they a reading
Plugins - Small files that add improved functionality and new features. Wordpress plugins can greatly improve your blog usage and interactivity
Dashboard - When you login to your blogging account, it is the first screen with all controls, tools and functions.

WEB FEEDS
Web Feed - allows online users to subscribe to websites that change or add content regularly.
RSS - a family of web feed formats used for Web syndication. Short form for Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0), RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0). Wordpress generates RSS 2.0
XML - short for eXtensible Markup Language. a general-purpose markup language for syndication formats used on blogs.
RDF - short for Resource Description Framework. A web content syndication format.
Atom - another specific web feed format. Blogger feeds are usually of this type.
OPML - short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is an XML format for outlines. Easily import and export multiple blog subscriptions between different rss aggregators.
Photofeed- a web feed with image enclosures.

BLOGGING SOFTWARE / CLIENTS
Blogger - a free blogging platform by Google.
Blogspot - free Blogger hosting blog at name.blogspot.com
LiveJournal - free blogging tool by SixApart
Movable Type - paid blogging tool by SixApart
Typepad - paid blogging tool by SixApart
Wordpress.org- Free. Easy to Upload, customize and upgrade.
Wordpress.com - A Wordpress blog hosted free for you.
Radio Userland - another blog publishing software package

TYPES OF BLOGS
Group blog- with multiple contributing bloggers.
Event blog - focussed on an event
Kittyblogger - writing about cats.
Celeblog - focused on a celebrity.
Celebriblog - maintained by a celebrity.
Clog Blog - written in Dutch and/or in Holland.
CEOBlog - run by a chief executive officer.
Plog - a project blog. Also for Amazon.com personalised weblogs
Movlogs - mobile video blogs.
Splog- a spam blog
Tech blog - focused on a technical subject.
Anonoblog - by an anonymous blogger
Linguablog - about linguistics, translation etc.
Metablog - a blog about blogging.
Milblog - a military blog.
Blawg - blogged by lawyer / related to legal stuff
Edu-blog - education oriented blog.
Progblog - A progressive blog.
Shocklog - provokes discussion by posting shocking content
Klog - used by company knowledge workers. by Kloggers
Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
Dark Blog- A non-public blog
Photocast- a photoblog that automatically updates when new photos are added.

BLOGGING HABITS
Metablogging - writing articles about blogging
Blogstipation - writer’s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog about?
Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
GAD - Google Adsense Disorder. Repeatedly checking your adsense earnings.
Blego - Blog+Ego. Measuring blogger worth
Blog hopping - jumping from one blog to another
Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
Blogorific = blogtastic - something which a blogger says is terrific
Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
Blogathon - update your website every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. Maybe collect sponsorships.
Blogiversary - your blog birthday
Blog Carnival - Links to other articles covering a specific topic.
Multiblog - running multiple blogs
Blog Tipping - Compliment 3 blogs on day 1 of every month.
Blogger bash - a blogger party
Reciprocal Links - called link love. You link to my blog, I link to yours. To improve search engine rankings.
Linkbaiting - a habit of writing good content with the sole purpose of getting it linked from multiple sites.
Blogstorm - a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.
Blogsnob - refusing to respond to blog comments from “not-friends”.
Doppelblogger - plagiarize the content of another blogger. To Doppelblog.
Blogophobia - Fear of blogs and blogging.
Bloggerel - the same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog

BLOGGER TYPES
Problogger - professional blogger
Blognoscenti - especially knowledgable bloggers
Blogebrity - a famous blogger.
Blogerati - the blogosphere intelligentsia.
Dooced - lost a job because of blog entries. To Dooce.
Blogther - a fellow blogger.
Blogstar- blogger running a popular blog

OTHER BLOGGING TERMS
Bloggies- Annual blogging awards.
MSM - Mainstream Media, or old media like newspapers etc.
BSM - Blogstream media. from most heavily trafficked blogs.
Blog Day - 31 August. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting and tell them.
Blaudience - your blog audience.
Blargon - Also called Blogssary. Blogging slang and glossary. What I am telling you now.
Blogiversary - your blog birthday
XFN - short for XHTML Friends Network. Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Blogonomics - blogging conference on a Blog Cruise in 2006.
EFF - short for Electronic Frontier Foundation. A nonprofit group working to protect blogger rights.
Blog of Note - a recommended blog.
Navbar - a navigation bar usually seen on top of Blogger blogspot hosted blogs.
Blook - a book created from a blog.
Hat Tip- acknowledgement of the source that tipped you the news.
Spomments- Spam comments
Blammer- Blog spammer
SOB- acronym for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. From successful-blog.com
Blogiday- you get fed up and take a holiday from blogging
BLOGGING TOOLS & SERVICES
Bloglines, Rojo, Newsgator, Kinja, - are News Aggregators that display content from syndicated Web content from web feed. Can be configured online or downloaded on your desktop. Also called RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers
Pageflakes,
Newsvine - Track multiple feeds on a single page by modules.
Odeo, Podnova - are Podcatchers, a form of aggregator used to automatically download podcasts and can sometimes transfer a portable media player. Like
Feedburner - a professional feed management system
Pingomatic, Pingoat - ping multiple blog tracking services.
Feedblitz, Zokooda - Email subscriptions and newletter tools.
Technorati - a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere
b5media, 9rules - examples of popular blogging networks. Collection of blogs and bloggers providing great content, with revenue sharing sometimes.
K2, Blix - names of some popular wordpress themes.
Blogexplosion, Blogclicker- popular blog traffic generation / exchange services.
Adsense, Adbrite, CJ, Chitka, Blogads - popular affiliate programs to generate money from your blogs.
Sphere, Icerocket - blog search engines
Live Bookmarks - a firefox web browser feature. Update themselves automatically with the latest content from the Web.
Creative Commons - licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
CoComment - Tracks your comments across different platforms and follow conversations
WBloggar, Ecto, Qumanna - desktop blog publishing tools
Mint, Mybloglog, Measuremap, Analytics - site traffic tracking tools.
Haloscan- free trackback service
YouTube, Rapidshare- puts video on your blog
Flickr, Imageshack - photo sharing service. Host images on your blog
Del.icio.us, furl, spurl - share social bookmarks.
Blogburst - Syndicating your feed to top publishers.
Bloggeropoly - professional blogger recruiting agency.
Blogger code - a way to describe different types of bloggers.
Bloggoggle - Directory of Blogging Professionals
BlogHer - where the women bloggers are.
Digged - link posted on digg.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Slashdotted - link posted on slashdot.org driving huge traffic to your blog.
Instalanche - link posted on instapundit.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Farked - link posted on fark.com driving huge traffic to your blog
Boing Boinged - link posted on boingboing.net driving huge traffic to your blog

MISCELLANEOUS BLOGGING TERMS
Ajax - acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. creates interactive web applications.
Greasemonkey - a firefox web browser extension that can alter the functionality of any website using specific scripts.
Wiki - a collaborative on-line software that allows readers to add and edit content.
CMS - short for Content management system. software used to publish and manage websites.

Courtesy and gratitude: Quick online tips.

Big list of Blog Pinging Services.

I never assume my blog readers are highly experienced and 'know all' type.

That is why I do a little bit of research before introducing a new tool or service related to blogs.

What exactly happen when you Ping your blog?
Pinging lets the pinging services know that you have updated your blog and they can come to you blog, craw and get itself updated with your blog's content.

Like you, I too forget frequently to ping my blog but when I do, I use pingomatic only.
I am aware of a few other pinging services but I was surprised to learn that there about 11 such services when I stumbled onto another blog yesterday.(full credit given at the end of this blog post)

I quote from that blog:
"Remember pinging is important if you use feedburner feed since feedburner will come crawling around after you ping it and update your feed with the latest content. And based on its content other blog tracking services will update."

List of pinging services:

Pingomatic - the most popular. Pings several popular services and specialized services. Create a bookmark for each ping url.
Pingoat - Pings a huge collection of 52 blogging services, including special services and non English tracking services. You can easily select all services by selecting the category.
King Ping - Pings multiple services - 18 in all. Easy to check and uncheck boxes. And you can also create a bookmark with your settings.
Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 services, including several specialized services and language specific services too.
Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed, or podcast for free to multiple services. .
BlogBlip - Just enter the blog url and it will submit to 15 popular blog tracking services.
Ping The Empire - Pings 18 common blog tracking services.

Courtesy and gratitude: Quick online Tips.

Just a discovered another avenue to earn from blogs.

Earn easily from your blogs.
It seems this is the season for introducing excellent opportunities to earn a few extra dollars from blogs and websites.

I am sure many people are not even aware of such opportunities. Everyone thinks of adsense alone as the only way to monetize their blogs.Placing text links in the side of your blogs and getting paid is the easiest way to earn from blogs.

You cannot ask for a simpler method than this. No selling or clicking is required at all in this way.

Visit Money4Blogs immediately to cash in the opportunity.

Want to earn a few dollars every month?

I think this is my fourth blog post related to earning money from blogs.

Also I have been emphasizing the importance of promoting your blogs to get a good page rank. To make your work easier, I have an exclusive blog post in this blog that ha a big list of blog directories and search engines.

Had you done that and gotten a page rank of at least 3, you could have utilized this opportunity that is the subject of this post.

Ok, getting back to the topic, I am exposing you to a wonderful opportunity to earn a few dollars every month by displaying text link ads provided by other webmasters.

It is a very simple work to insert a few static text links that will point to the websites of the advertisers.

Interested? Why not?

There is money for freelance writers in the Blogosphere.

Since May 2006, my efforts as a freelance blogger were rewarded financially as a paid blogger.

I have been writing about various blog avenues where you will be paid for your blogging skill.

But I know most of my blog readers have not taken advantage of this wonderful earning potential.

However, since my life principle is to share, I am introducing a new website that pays for your blog posts.

But this is not a ghost blogging opportunity. You need to be an active blogger and you have to submit your current blog urls for approval.

Once done, await for them to get approved with in a day. Then you can log in to your publisher account and browse through the assignments that are waiting to be picked by you.

The rate you are paid per blog post will depend on its current ranking and traffic.

What are you waiting for? Go to inblogads and register your account today.

Beginning of a long road in blog promotion.

The usual sentence will be ‘The end of a long road’, but I sincerely see this as a beginning.

Like me, many bloggers may not be aware of a new service from google. I accidentally stumbled on to this only a few hours ago.

It is about google’s blog search and pinging service.

Google says,” The Google Blog Search Pinging Service attempts to share its pings with the rest of the world.”.

By using their advanced search options, you can search blogs in 35 languages.

There is even a ‘safe search’ function to filter out adult content.

And the pinging service can be very useful to inform google about the updates on your blog. Remember to ping it whenever there is an update.

I would urge you to bookmark this and pass it on to your friends.

Travel free by blogging here.

As I keep saying, blogging is the future and there is money from blogs, I found out one more avenue to earn from your blog. This travel blog enables you to write your travel experience.

Participate in this blogging community discussing travel around the world. Speak to people who have already been. Share your travel experiences and earn cash through adsense.

Get paid to chat, blog and mingle!

If you join up, you can comment on my blogs, write some of your own and even earn money with 'adsense' too.

Another blog traffic tool.

Visit blog top 100.
Click on 'register' and fill out the form.

Then copy the code given by them and paste it in your blog.
Other members of blog top 100 will visit your blog and give a ranking to your blog.
As the rank goes up, your blog will get more visitors.


A cool blog traffic tool-is it not?