What do we want? Travel! When do we want it? As soon as our blog sites are up and running! Sound about accurate? It will sound more than close to home if you want to be a travel blogger. Making money from traveling the globe and posting your thoughts is the dream for many of us. That’s why we’re going to look at some tips for travel blogging success.
Learn to manage your multimedia content
Some freelance travel bloggers always seem to produce consistent blogs that look great and deliver a natural feel. Want to know their secret? The answer is creative automation (see creative automation guidance here).
But let’s start at the beginning…It can be all too tempting to throw caution to the wind and begin your travel blog without having all the right checks in place in terms of whether you’re set up to handle your multimedia content. The reason for this is that at the outset you will have no content to manage. But what about when the images and videos start to mount?
Creative automation gives you the tools you need to store, edit, and share personalized content across all of your channels. Take control over file sizes and file formats. Don’t leave anything to chance. If you want to be held in the same esteem as some of the more competitive bloggers in your niche, you need creative automation on your side.
Stick to themed groups of blogs
Sticking to themed blogs sounds like you’re being told to travel to one destination and produce blogs solely on that one localized area of the world. Not so. So, what’s going on? The thing is that your blog has the potential to read like a travel book. Otherwise, individual posts will link to other posts with little or no relevance. Your work will all be in stand-alone format. There are two ways to combat this.
First, you could treat each trip like a mini-tour. Visit different areas of the same city on different days and divide your blogs up accordingly. One day could be dedicated to culture. The next entertainment. You could do a blog on local cuisine. And a final blog on accommodation and transport. See? Now you have a well-thought-out story worth reading.
Without grouping your blogs into themed brackets, you run the risk of writing randomly about random places and hoping your audience is going to care.
Go old-school and take a notepad
How many times have you thought, “No need to write that down, I’ll remember it”? Speaking from experience, a chance second meeting with fellow travelers in two different parts of the world within days of having met the first time would have been forgotten and omitted from that day’s writing if it weren’t for keeping notes. Small quick things can slip your memory over time, but they can help add color and flavor to your writing.
Take a notepad. Write everything down over lunch and during your taxi ride back to the hotel each night. You won’t regret it.
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