Travel Blogging is an industry that has been booming over recent years, and while many people are able to support their travel through their blogs, nearly everyone who has a travel blog will have started out blogging simply to keep in touch with friends and family and to share their experiences. Starting a blog is a much easier option than having to write individual emails to everyone, but for those who are looking to take blogging a little further, here are some great tips for starting out.
Discovering Your Writing Style
When it comes to running a successful travel blog, one of the most important aspects is to be able to capture the attention of your audience and then to keep that attention so that the visitors will want to continue to return to the blog. There are plenty of travel blogs that are very similar, so try to find your own voice and write in a way that is engaging and authentic. Take inspiration from others, but avoid copying other blogs otherwise you will fall back into the crowd.
Designing Your Blog
The design of a travel blog is one of the most important aspects of all, and a design that will simply fade into the crowd is a design to avoid. Trying to stand out is something that is difficult when there are so many other travel blogs around, so try and use a distinctive look to make your website unique, or even consider getting a professionally designed website to suit your own unique approach to travel blogging.
Travel Photography
Taking a good travel photo is something that has become an art form among travel bloggers, and while there are many that can take beautiful landscapes, getting genuinely unique images can be a little more difficult.
As well as taking beautiful and attractive images that will catch people's attention, try and look for the unseen images that will offer more of an authentic insight into the destinations that you visit that isn't available elsewhere.
Promoting And Working With Other Bloggers
Finding your audience and getting people to visit your blog can often be difficult start to begin with, so working with other bloggers and joining the blogging community can be a great way to start attracting people to your own blog. Social media is a very powerful tool, so starting to interact with other bloggers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram can be a great way to start, while sharing the blogs of others and commenting interesting responses to their posts can also attract readers to your own writing.
Find Your Own Angle
With so many different blogs, being unique is very difficult, so if there is something that you are particularly passionate about, or a particular angle that you feel is under represented in the blogging community, seize it and make it your own. You will write far more effectively about something that you believe in, and this natural enthusiasm for your topic will shine through, and help to make your own particular perspective on solo travel one that your audience will understand, and many may feel the same way.
Blogging Events
When it comes to meeting other travel bloggers, there are several travel blogging events and conferences that are held around the world every year, and these offer a great way to meet other bloggers. If you can attend one of these events, not only are they great fun with a wide variety of different people present, but they are also wonderful places to network and to meet others who are also involved in travel blogging, which can provide inspiration and great ideas to help turn travel blogging into a way to support your travels.
Technical Tips For Your Blog
The most important thing of all when it comes to travel blogging is to make sure that you back up your content, as the effort of rebuilding a blog after moving servers or a loss of data can be a huge time drain. Using the best and fastest hosting provider that you can afford is another way of keeping people coming back to your blog, so this is also worth investigating.