I'm going to be hosting the September 3 edition of the Email Marketing Tips blog carnival, so if you have a marketing related blog and want to submit an email marketing related post, head over to blogcarnival.com to get it in.

If you're not familiar with blog carnivals, they're a great way of getting exposure for your blog, and as a result more traffic.

They're basically a compilation of posts related to the topic of the carnival, with a short snippet that links back to the original post on your blog. There are blog carnivals on almost any topic you can imagine, so they don't necessarily have to be marketing-related (although the one I'm hosting is).

Some carnivals are hosted on the same blog most of the time, while others are hosted by various people. It's a great way to get more backlinks to your site, often from blogs with good rankings.

Plus, you can often get quite a bit of clickthrough traffic directly from the hosting blog, so it's not all about search engine rankings.

You can find out more about how they work on the About Blog Carnivals page.