FAQ category archives

Please read Bloodhound Realty’s recent suggestions for improving the quality of the carnival. We want to ensure the guidelines for both submitting and hosting are clear and have the general support of this carnival’s hosts. Please take a look at the updated guidelines for hosting and submitting and let us know in the comments if [...]

Q. What is involved in hosting a carnival?
A. Keep in mind your audience- real estate enthusiasts who wish to find the best articles from that week, but make sure to have fun with the carnival at the same time. The one thing we’d like to avoid is the carnival becoming nothing more than a link [...]

Q. What are the requirements for submitting?
A. Ideally, anything that is relevant to real estate can be submitted. It should be original content and has to be a recent post. Also, the post shouldn’t just be a compilation of someone else’s quotes or thoughts – the majority of it should be original content created by [...]

You may be wondering, “How can I help promote the carnival and increase the it’s audience?” If so, there are two things you can do to help besides personally telling others about the carnival:
1. Link to the carnival from your blog. You are welcome to use a text link on your blogroll or the carnival [...]

Here are some general FAQs to explain the ins and outs of carnivals:
General:
Q. What is a blog carnival?
A. It’s a weekly summary of the best blogging posts on a given subject that appeared in someone’s blog during the previous week.  A different blog hosts the carnival each week. Read more about how carnivals work.
Q. Are [...]

There are two options to submit a post to the Carnival. The preferred tool for submitting your posts is the Blog Carnival Submission.
Or, you can just e-mail your entry to

Please include:
– Article URL (permalink)
– Article title
– Author name
– E-mail address
– Blog URL
– Brief summary of the post

In order to sign up to host the carnival, all that is asked of you is to regularly submit posts to the carnival. For example, if you are not actively writing about real estate and producing original content to submit, you’re not considered a regular participant and don’t deserve all the goodness that comes [...]

A Blog Carnival is a weekly summary of the best blogging posts on a given subject that appeared in someone’s blog during the previous week.  A different blog hosts the carnival each week, so it brings bloggers writing on a given subject together.  Blog Carnivals are often referred to as another form of viral marketing [...]

The Zillow Blog Team — well, actually one very tuned-in guy on the team — was pondering the existence of Blog Carnivals for everything from "street poetry" to cats, but there was not one for real estate. Obviously, we were amazed by this realization.  No Carnival for real estate? This must be fixed! So, we [...]