A Beginners Guide to Travel Blogging
In today’s digital world, it’s never been easier to try your hand at travel blogging. Wi-Fi coverage continues to improve. Top quality digital cameras are incorporated into your smartphone, websites can be built step by step on the internet, and social media can get your posts seen by thousands. So, if you fancy a little side gig, and maybe earning a few quid for petrol money, where do you start?
How Will You Travel?
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Pick a relevant name
You want a name that’s relevant. Relevant to the fact it’s a travel blog, and relevant to the fact it’s in a campervan. Although Nomad, Nomadic, and other variants are all over the net, a quick Google search threw up one result for Nomadcampervans.com, and nothing for Campervannomads.com. Worth a thought?
Set up your blogs hosting.
Your Blog Host is where all your blog files are stored. Bluehost is one of the most popular and costs just a couple of pounds a month. The site will guide you through installation up to and including WordPress.
Next you want the engine.
Google WordPress, although there are others. The site will take you through the set-up step by step. Once loaded you can start exploring the dashboard.
Pick out your websites theme
WordPress has something like 200 different themes and you can play with and change them to suit yourself before picking the one you like. If none of those suit, Google website themes, there are plenty out there.
Design your logo
Take time designing your logo. You want something that will stand the test of time. Don’t forget, it will be on your website, social media sites, and on your emails. If you’re not that artistically inclined, have a look on somewhere like Fiverr, with a view to an artist designing it for you.
Where do you go from here.
If you already have a Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube account, and you’ve started posting step-by-step pics of your campervan conversion or travels, you’re ahead of the field. Even further ahead, if you’ve built up a bit of a social media following. Be sure to check out this article on how to use the Pinterest trends tool to help with content research.
Where you go from here is very much a case of personal choice. If all you want from your travel blog is family and friends being able to follow your campervan adventures, so be it. You can post the latest pictures. Write about how they came about whenever you can fit in the time. And do it for pence a week.
If you want to build it into a money spinner, that takes time and effort. In the early days you need to upload new blog posts two or three times a week. You need to post regularly on social media, telling followers when your latest blog is up. And you need to find an angle, or niche, that makes your campervan travel blog stand out from the crowd. That could be your style of photography, or your writer’s voice. As a long gone British comedian used to say, ‘It’s the way I tell ‘em’.
