Welcome to the August edition of Travel Blogger News! Here are the best articles and news related to the business of travel blogging from the last month.
Travel Blogging
How to travel blog when not traveling – Very few travel bloggers are on the road full-time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still run a travel blog. [The Pin The Map Project]
The ultimate travel blogger’s guide to guest posting – A strategy to write multiple guest posts and have them published at the same time – a “Guest Post Bomb.” [Goats On The Road]
How to increase traffic to your travel blog – [StefanRTW]
10 things bloggers do to get more followers – [Two Scots Abroad]
Travel Writing
How travel writing evolved into travel blogging, and what brands get from both – [Adweek]
How a single travel writer managed to piss off an entire country – [Matador Network]
10 phrases travel writers should stop using immediately – [Contently]
Travel Photography
Bloggers: want to get paid for photos of your travels? Here are 5 things you’re doing wrong! – [The Travel Tester]
How to start freelance photography and travel the world – [The Broke Backpacker]
Social Media
Announcing an application process for verified accounts – Twitter are now letting the masses apply for a verified account (which gets a blue tick next to your name). [Twitter]
Donkimir’s biggest, baddest Pinterest tips! – Pinterest guide for bloggers (how to get 100,000’s of views). [Chasing The Donkey]
Instagram hashtag research like a pro – A primer on how to use Hashtags effectively. [Breathing Travel]
How I paid Facebook to ruin my page – The perils of diluting your reach on Facebook by buying likes. [Live Less Ordinary]
Blogger Outreach
How to work with travel bloggers – Kash Bhattacharya offers some guidelines for DMO’s and brands to follow. [Toposophy]
Bloggiversaries
Travel blogging- the paradox! – “Today I complete seven years of travel blogging, and am pretty much nowhere near the border line where I can happily take it up as a full time profession.” [Tales Of A Nomad]
Notes on 6 years of blogging – [Young Adventuress]
On Travel Blogging
Top 5 reasons NOT to become a professional travel blogger – Jonny Blair writes a persoanl post on the realities of blogging, and competing with fake bloggers. [Don’t Stop Living]
The rise of the anti-travel blogger and what to expect – Nikki Vargas on the backlash against bloggers who portray their perfect travel lives online. [Huffington Post]
When racism pops its ugly head in travel blogs – [Journalist On The Run]
A tribute to travel bloggers: travel blogging myths – [Life Through My Bioscope]
The realities of travel blogging – [Media Marmalade]
5 travel blogging myths – the reality – [Safe Travels By Sally]
Income Reports
Income and blogging stats reported in July for the month of June, 2016.
Income and traffic report for June 2016 – $1875 and May 2016 – $374 [Travel Blog Breakthrough]
June blog income report (and traffic, too) – [The Wandering Gourmand]
June monthly income report: $187.05 – [The Restless Worker]
Income Report: $ 2,297 – June 2016 – [Holiday Backpack]
June 2016 income report – [Desk to Dirtbag]
June nomad income report 2016: golden opportunities – [The Luxpats]
Conferences and Events
Seven unconventional ways to *really* get the most out of TBEX travel conferences – Practical advice that can be applied to any travel conference. [Dream Of Travel Writing]
TBEX Stockholm
Highlights and lessons from TBEX Europe 2016 in Stockholm – [Travel Blog Success]
How travel blogging conferences could best benefit first time attendees – [Birdgehls]
Attending the TBEX travel conference in Europe – [Momfluential]
TBEX Jerusalem
Announcing TBEX International 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel – [tbexcon]
In The News
Dennis Cooper fears censorship as Google erases blog without warning – One of the reasons you should have your own travel blog and not a free blog like at Blogspot. At the very least – please – back up your work. [The Guardian]
How to be a million-dollar travel blogger – Travel Trifecta CEO Lee Abbamonte discusses the business of travel blogging. [Bloomberg]
It’s a hard blog life: How to make it as a travel blogger – [Irish Times]
Yes, I’m a travel blogger, please don’t attack me: The downsides to a dream job – [Stuff]
New Posts at Travel Bloggers Guide
How to ask a tour operator for a free tour – A guest post by Lorna Davidson from tour operator The Roman Guy.
A guide to affiliate marketing for travel blogs – An introduction to affiliate marketing as a way to monetize a travel blog.
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