Welcome to the July edition of Travel Blogger News! Here are the best articles and news related to the business of travel blogging from the last month.
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Travel Blogging
9 ways to become a successful blogger – [Nomadic Matt]
Hey bloggers: stop making all your links ‘nofollow’! – [indietraveller.co]
3 common SEO mistakes hurting your travel blogging results – [Y Travel Blog]
How to run a travel blog as a student [Faraway Lucy]
Travel Writing
The real life of a globe-trotting travel writer – Andrew Evans for adventure-journal.com writes about the romantic myths about being a travel writer.
Making Money
Blogaversary Five: How I make and spend money blogging [Alex in Wanderland]
Travel blogging for money – An analysis on 50 well known travel blogs – [Mel365]
How do travel bloggers make money? – [I Am Ella]
How I created a consulting side hustle (and tactics you can steal – [The Sweetest Way]
Social Media
I went to Cancún with some social media influencers and it was fascinating and terrifying – [Paste]
Fam Trips
What are media FAM trips? – [Contented Traveller]
Bloggiversaries
4 years of travel blogging! – [The Well-Travelled Postcard]
Wanderlust Storytellers – Australian Family Travel Blog – is 1 year old! – [Wanderlust Storytellers]
On Travel Blogging
10 things that happen when you transition from traveler to travel blogger? – [The Gate – Boarding Area]
Travel blogging vs travel journalism: knowing the difference – [The Wayfaring Voyager]
Why I am not reading your travel blog – [Megan Starr]
Going against the travel blogger grain – [Backpacks and Bunk Beds]
9 confessions about travel blogging that you need to know – [Monkeys and Mountains]
What I’ve learned from travel bloggers – [Helene in Between]
Yes, I’m a travel blogger, please don’t attack me – [Anita Hendrieka]
Week 6: What I learnt about travel blogging – [The Travel Intern]
The thing about travel blogging – [The Little Backpacker]
Interviews
The life of a travel blogger – Insights from @sjanaelise – [The Asia Collective]
Gray Padmore professional graphics designer to top travel blogger – [Ninja Outreach]
How a travel blogger started selling online courses – [BobWP]
Income Reports
Income and blogging stats reported in June for the month of May, 2016.
May blog income report (and traffic, too) – [The Wandering Gourmand]
May 2016 blog traffic & income report – [Heart My Backpack]
Monthly income report for May: $207.87 – [The Restless Worker]
Income Report – $2,527: May 2016 – [Holiday Backpack]
May 2016 income report – [Desk to Dirtbag]
May nomad income report 2016: Writer takes all – [The Luxpats]
[If you are a travel blogger that publishes an income report let me know and I will add it to the monthly update.]
Conferences and Events
TBEX Minnesota
Top 10 travel moments of TBEX 2016 – [Mall of America]
Why every travel blogger should attend TBEX – [Urban Xenophile]
My Tbex Minnesota experience – [Break Into Travel Writing]
Fanboy blogger meets star travel bloggers – [Travel Trilogy]
Hundreds of travel bloggers travel to MOA for TBEX – [Minnesota CBS Local]
TBCAsia
Travel bloggers gain recognition, Cinnamon TBCasia launches awards – [island.lk]
In The News
The million-dollar blogger and his life of total travel – [CNN]
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