Top 7 Tips to Achieve Success With a Travel Blog
For travelers, starting a travel blog is not a bad idea at all. By sharing your ideas and travel experiences, you do not only derive pleasure but you also get an opportunity to make money online. Passionate travelers such as Kate (of Adventurous Kate), Matt (of Nomadic Matt), Earl (of Wandering Earl) & Stephanie (of Twenty-Something Travel) have been successful in turning their travel blogs into full-time businesses, which earns them a good amount of money. There are hundreds of such bloggers who have achieved success with their travel blogs.
If you have a strong passion for traveling too, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity of setting up your travel blog. While starting a blog about travel takes only a couple of minutes, managing it successfully may take months or years.
With some expert tips at hand, however, you can also popularize your travel blog and make money from it without wasting too much time.
Given below are seven tips that you can use –
#1. Share Unique Experiences
If you want to make your travel blog unique, avoid talking about destinations, cities, or towns superficially. There are plenty of travel websites that offer general information on popular travel destinations around the world. What you need to do on your blog is share unique experiences or things or activities that very few people will rarely get a chance (or even think) to do or enjoy.
#2. Learn to Write Well
When it comes to sharing your travel experiences, you should also be able to do it expressively. You can go to any place or city in the world and indulge in as many interesting activities as you may find. But if you can’t share your story in your unique style, it will only dilute the impact that you want to make.
Therefore, you must learn to write well. In any case, avoid copying anyone else’s style. Instead, develop your own (if you don’t want to bore readers).
#3. Become an Avid Reader
If you want to become a successful blogger, you don’t just need to travel. You also need to read travel literature extensively. Find out about the most popular travel authors, books that they have written and read them to broaden your knowledge base. Subscribing to popular online travel magazines is also a good idea. If you focus on a specific niche, as a travel blogger, reading relevant travel writings can help you a great deal. To write well, you need to read well.
#4. Take Attention-Grabbing Pictures
What’s a travel blog without pictures? A travel blog without good pictures looks dead. Like you learn to write well, you also need to photograph attractively. A well-crafted travel blog post coupled with great pictures has the potential to go viral in minutes. And you can never tell a good story without using great pictures.
#5. Be Consistent
Success doesn’t come overnight. Once you start a travel blog, you need to share your experiences, stories, and other relevant pieces of information regularly. If you make your readers wait for an entire week or month to read the next post on your blog, you’ll simply lose them forever. So, plan out the content strategy in advance.
#6. Stay Genuine
While sharing your travel stories with readers, you should always stay genuine. By being genuine and honest, you’ll soon be able to develop a personal attachment with readers, an essential ingredient to help you achieve success.
#7. Pay Attention to SEO
What’s your purpose for writing travel stories? Well, you do it so that more and more people can read them. Though content is always the king, you can never neglect the importance of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Most travel bloggers think that writing great travel content and doing SEO are two different things, which isn’t true. Great writing always remains at the heart of great SEO.
Therefore, don’t let your travel blog fall deeper and deeper into an ocean of obscurity by neglecting SEO.
[It’s a good idea to seek the help of an SEO professional.]
Do you have a travel blog? Feel free to share your views or opinions.
