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We practically breathe permalinks at Blog Carnival. When we started, we got so many questions about permalinks that we wrote our own permalink explanation.

Understanding permalinks is like learning to ride a bike. Before you get it, it's kind of scary. Once you get it, it makes life easy.

Sometimes we forget that without permalinks, blogs would be nearly impossible and certainly of much less value. If there were a Nobel Prize for blogging, the inventor of the permalink would win every year.

Permalinks let Blog Carnival point to a specific post regardless of where it is in your stream of blog posts. People who read your carnival, for instance, usually want the link to the post with the carnival, not the link to your blog's homepage. A carnival, in turn, points to relevant posts rather than blog homepages.

Here is an illustration. This is the permalink for this post. This, on the other hand, is the link to this blog's homepage. If you click on this post's permalink, you will always get this post. If you click on this blog's homepage, you will find this post until it scrolls off the bottom of the homepage.

Blog Carnival's primary value is helping you find the right permalinks.

So please, dear reader, don't get mad or frustrated when we insist that you input a permalink rather than just any old URL. Permalinks are like oxygen to us.