World travelers may not be doing a lot of that right now, but folks that love a good adventure know that they will be on the road, sea and in the sky again soon! And they’ll probably do MORE traveling to make up for the adventures they may have missed out on this year. For those folks, right now is a hot time to take stock of your past adventures (your writings, insights, photos and videos) and use your “down time” to create a travel blog site of your own!
The benefits of having your own site vs. social media
Having a dedicated space outside of social media, like a custom built website, can offer more flexibility in how you present you content and tie it all together into a larger story. You can also incorporate things like affiliate linking or digital sales to help generate a revenue stream from your adventures. These are things that social media platforms don’t often provide.
How to explore the idea of starting a travel blog website
You’ll want to gather and organize your content and begin to think about it as a collection of stories, insight and visual appeal to help convey your unique perspective on traveling and the value of your experiences to your visitors.
Consider your insight, content and what makes your perspective unique
Words, stories and insight are important for any site. What stories and insight do you have to share about your travels? What have you learned from your experiences that others may not know? Can you help potential travelers have happier or safer adventures by sharing what you know? Do you have some interesting stories to tell?
Pictures and visuals are especially important for a travel site! Do you have lots of high quality photos from your travels that you can share? How about videos? Would you be able to start a YouTube channel about travel?
Discover some travel blog website monetization ideas
To get some ideas on how you can monetize your past adventures, you may want to take a peek at this article Top Travel Affiliate Programs for Travel Bloggers. If some of these sound interesting to you, you can start thinking about how you could incorporate them into a site for yourself and present them as resources for your visitors.
Build a travel blog strategy
Like with any site, good planning at the start is a good roadmap for success! To start, you want to have a clear purpose and goal for the site. (Is that to generate revenue or generate interest in a product or service? Sell stock photos? Or simply to share your pointers?) From there you can begin to determine your plan for accomplishing that goal.
Get help setting up your travel blog & making your website plans
Roost Web Strategies is here if you need help building your strategy and site! Our first hour of strategy-building consultation is free, so just reach out to us if you need help or want to start building your site!
