So was it worth it? Maybe. Without any ’social networking sites’ submissions, only purely organic traffic, it has had over 1200 hits in the first day and a half.

That’s a very nice reward for the effort you put into it!

Jay wrote:

P.S. I’ve been reading you in the feed reader, and hadn’t noticed the new text at the bottom of the post. I like it! It’s very transparent, and comes off as more of an honest disclosure than an upsell!

Thanks, that’s what I intended for it, I’m glad that’s the way it reads. I do need to update the feed signature to include the same info, so thanks for the reminder!

I think I got a bit carried away with my meta-Carnival list. I started it when trying to make sense of the previous hosts’ carnivals, because I was hosting my first one, and didn’t want to duplicate other hosts’ links.

I made it to about 4 editions (mine was the 21st), before giving up, and just went ahead and published my edition.

Once it was published, I resumed obsessively editing the meta-Carnival. In total, it took over 30 very tedious hours.

So was it worth it? Maybe. Without any ’social networking sites’ submissions, only purely organic traffic, it has had over 1200 hits in the first day and a half.

I think it will help all the carnival submitters, too, as it gives them fresh links, with fresh traffic to their older posts.

Would I do it again? Ugh. Maybe with a better editor-to-blog-submitter system. (I had to go in and reformat each link by hand, after uploading the edited file.)

What helped me is that I really cared about the topic. We are entering our holiday cooking season, and I wanted a better index of recipes for myself.

I doubt I could have persevered through all the editing if I didn’t want the result for my own use.

Thank you again for including me in this list. I’m off now to go take your stroll through all the other links!