Travel Blog Advice

How Republishing Your Articles On Other Sites Can Be Bad For You

June 18, 2010 5 comments

Lately I’ve been asked several times by other bloggers if they could republish one or more of my posts or the other way around. They weren’t asking to be malicious and for no other reason than they liked what I had written or were hoping I’d re-post something of theirs. It was very flattering, still, [...]

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How To Manage And Make More Money From Text Link Ads On Your Travel Blog

June 11, 2010 45 comments

You may be seeing more requests and inquiries about text link ads on your travel blog, and now that you know how to handle requests and sales, you can dive into the nitty-gritty details of putting it all together. Text link ad requests come in different forms and advertisers are always looking for a leg [...]

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How To Increase Interlinks On Each Of Your Travel Blog Posts

June 4, 2010 8 comments

Internal links, or linking back to your travel blog, is an important part of search engine optimization (SEO) and makes your site more navigable for your readers. It creates a web of interlinks throughout your travel blog that search engines find easy to follow and allows your readers to make the most out of your [...]

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Why Don’t Stumble Clicks Match Analytics Numbers?

May 28, 2010 7 comments

StumbleUpon and it’s cousin su.pr are great ways to generate additional traffic to your travel blog but often those impressive SU numbers don’t match up with what you see in the ultimate stat tracker, Google Analytics. It can be confusing and discouraging until you understand the process and shift your expectations. What Stumble Is And [...]

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Why Your RSS Numbers Vary From Day To Day

May 21, 2010 7 comments

Many of you track the number of RSS readers to your blog daily and others have it posted somewhere on their blog. You’ll notice that the number varies a bit from day to day, although this past week the fluctuations have been much wider. That’s because Google (who owns FeedBurner) is changing how it calculates [...]

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Attack Travel Blogging With A 5-Pronged Approach

May 14, 2010 4 comments

When it comes down to managing your travel blog over the long haul, you need a good schedule. It’s much easier to maintain and motivate yourself with a weekly posting schedule but the problem is that even the best posting schedule can be disrupted, by everything else that comes along with travel blogging. Staying on [...]

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13 Recommended WordPress Plugins For Travel Blogs

May 7, 2010 15 comments

Traveler bloggers tend to go crazy with plugins, those little add-ons to WordPress, when first setting up their blogs. Plugins are easy to install and there are thousands of them out there. It can be difficult to choose which ones are worth the installation and hassle of configuration. These are some of my recommended plugins [...]

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Interview With Dave Fox About Globejotter Tours, Combining Writing And Travel – [Part 2 of 2]

April 30, 2010 1 comment

Dave Fox is the founder of Globejotter Tours, and the author of Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad and Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!) He lives in Seattle, Washington. Dave took a few minutes to answer a some questions about Globejotter’s tours which incorporate [...]

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Change Your Permalink Settings For Greatly Improved SEO Results

April 23, 2010 6 comments

Changing the structure of your permalinks is probably one of the easiest and most effective things you can do to improve the search engine optimization (SEO) of your travel blog right away. Permalinks are basically the URL or web address of a give blog page or post. Here’s an example: http://travelblogadvice.com/travel-blogging/dealing-with-travel-blogger-burnout/ Most WordPress blogs are [...]

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How To Handle Text Link Requests And Sales On Your Travel Blog

April 16, 2010 5 comments

There is quite a bit of confusion over the topic of text link ads, what they are, how much to sell them for, and what Google says about them. I’ve received quite a few questions about it lately and decided to give you some basic guidelines so you know how to handle those requests and [...]

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