Being a travel blogger is certainly profitable, but you have to take into account the other 60 million people that you’ll be competing with. The main thing that we’re trying to get at is to ask you whether or not you want to be just another travel blogger or do you want to be THE travel blogger that people go to for information?
The field of travel blogging is very crowded – we mentioned at the beginning. Everyone would love to get paid for traveling the world, and it’s exactly what you’ll be doing. This sounds like the dream job doesn’t it?
Well, before you do that, you need to be successful at what you do, in this case, travel blogging.
This article will point out the things that can make you stand out from the rest of the crowd, effectively telling you how to properly run a travel blog. We’re even going to include some information.
Source: To Europe and Beyond
1. Read Books, A lot of Books
There are tens of thousands of books out there that can teach you skills in fields such as marketing, strategy, business, and even self-development. If you want to learn how to run things, then you need to read on how to run things. Your blog will be your business, so you can’t go about it like its some ordinary thing in your life. You’ve worked hard to set it up, and now you must run it.
There is a special niche category of books called travel books. These can come of great use and teach you a new perspective of travel blogging.
2. Think Differently
Being different is a trait that many people will appreciate, especially in the travel blogging field. By now, people have figured out the difference between sponsored content and normal content. If everyone is into that stuff, then you won’t be. If everyone is producing serious content, then you won’t be. If everyone is writing text, then you won’t be. Try to be innovative, different creative, unique. Take www.ranselkecil.com for example. Their content is not similar to most travel blogs. Their content is pure, created from personal experiences. Their content is produced with a casual tone that will appeal to most people.
That’s exactly what you’ll be after for your private travel blog. You need to be traveling for the purpose of enjoyment, and not for simply scoring the free trip and delivering a biased article.
Source: Curiosity Travels
3. Invest In Your Blog
It’s your goal to create the perfect user experience for your readers. If you’ve had a travel blog for quite some time now, have you invested in it? If not, then don’t make that mistake. You might be an expert in traveling, but you’re not an expert in SEO, marketing, design, etc. Hire a pro to create the best possible website design. Hire a pro to optimize your content for SEO purposes. And hire a pro to deliver that content to your audience. It goes without saying that if you want to properly run something, then you need people around you. This might not be possible at first, of course, but you shouldn’t avoid it once you start getting the numbers in.
