Build My Blog

I have submitted a few articles to the blog carnivals to see if it would drive any amount of traffic to this site. So far I am still undecided about the traffic opportunity due to the uninspiring results I have received.

I have submitted on two different rounds on two different carnivals. The first one I did I received a whopping 2 visitors when the carnival was posted. I wasn’t sure that it was worth the effort especially when the next couple of times brought about the same results. So maybe it is not such a great way to bring visitors, but maybe I am submitting to the wrong carnivals and haven’t found a big one yet.

The positive thing about submitting to carnivals though is the link you will receive. Links are like gold on the internet. Each link from a different blog carnival will bump your Technorati authority. That is definitely nice if you are playing the Technorati game and trying to boost your visibility in that network.

So my conclusion so far is that while blog carnivals are good for getting links and being visible in the community, they haven’t shown me to be a decent method of building traffic.

Hmm… Don’t ask, but I just discovered that www.smellmyballs.com redirects you to the Yahoo! front page.

Can’s say I know what is going on here… either someone is pissed at the big Y for some reason or Yahoo is really testing the limits of internet privacy by smelling your balls.

Anyone have any insight into this phenominon??

Oh, before you go all acusational, I am not the only one who throws random things into the address bar. You know who you are. Do you know of any other odd matches for web addresses? I know www.horseballs.com isn’t what you would first think.