Travel blogs are becoming more and more popular. The first travel blogs appeared about a decade ago. Social networks, multimedia content and independent travellers have become one of the most creative bloggers online. Even more, the most successful now earn money with their blogs.
Travel blog can be your best friend
The word blog first appeared in the late 90s and year 1999 was a turning year for blogs as people started to experiment with this new way of sharing their thoughts in chronological order. Travel blogs were a little behind. The industry didn’t encourage these bloggers and the travellers didn’t have the technology that would allow them to actively travel and maintain a website. Travel blogs are your best friends when you want to book a hotel or buy a plane ticket, writes Travelhoo. They became the first thing that tourists go to when they are choosing their next destination. There you will find travel articles and objective reviews of the hotels. As Landlopers writes, Facebook had a big role in the development of travel blogs. Travel blogs have filled the need for objective reviews and suggestions for travelling, and also for advice and real people experience.
Why even write?
Travel blogs have become more and more popular in Slovenia, where they also got their audience. Slovenian bloggers are writing in English as they reach a bigger audience and are more attractive to the sponsors. Nina who’s writing a blog with her boyfriend Simon, called
Nina Potuje, says that their reasons to write are to remember the trip, for their families and they also got some new knowledge as they had to learn some technical things to bring the blog to this point. Today when they have a big audience, they also make some money with the blog. She also recommends that you don’t write the blog for the money but for your soul. If you want to check out some other Slovenian bloggers, we also recommend
Simona and Jure.Creativity, good writing and photographing
It is quite simple to start your first travel blog, says
Expert Vagabond, but you have to have a good idea and a good writing style. The first you have to do is choose a good name. Choose something short, easy to remember, so people would easily share and remember. It is good to write some keywords that would describe your blog. For example cuisine, culture, adventure, Africa. Think long term and choose a name that could still be in use in ten years. When you choose your platform, learn to use its functions. The most bloggers choose
WordPress, as it’s free. Free platforms
blogger.com and
TypePad.com are also popular. And a brand new website for travel blogs is
Travel Legendary. Choose a profile picture, make a theme or buy a professional theme in time so your blog will be more personal.
Huffington Post has asked the biggest travel bloggers of the world how to create a great travel blog. They recommend improving your writing competences as people come back because of good writing and interesting destinations. Go to creative writing and photography classes and focus on how you can tell your story to the readers. Find an audience and focus on a certain theme or on a certain audience, be creative and personal. The competition is tough, especially in English blogs and is becoming bigger even at Slovene blogs.
Making money with a blog
Because travel and other blogs are becoming more and more popular, you can also make money with a good blog. You can even find online lessons on how to earn money with your blog. It is important to have a good basics for marketing in the future. You have to create a brand, have good content, functional website, followers on social networks and contacts so you will be able to convince the sponsors to give the money to you. Travel blogs make money with advertising on their website, different partnerships with companies, promoting products and linking to other websites. If they, for example, write about a backpack they’re using, they also provide a link to where people can buy the backpack. With this combination travel bloggers are travelling with the money they get from the blog, are able to invest in the blog and save some money and there is a lot of hidden work behind that.
But if opening a new blog doesn’t interest you and you still want to write,
Hostelling International Slovenia is inviting you to join us and write for
Globetrotter. You will get recognition and you won’t have to worry about maintaining a website, editing or proof-reading your articles. We are happy of each and every article we receive and are exciting for every member that would like to share their adventures with the world.
