Friday, December 14, 2012

Fantastic 8 Ways Guide to Drive Traffic to Your Travel Blog


Fantastic 8 Ways Guide to Drive Traffic to Your Travel Blog

Drive-traffic-to-travel-blogsOn we bring different types of articles and giveaways to help our readers. Today we are here to help the bloggers who run travel blogs. Like other niche’s bloggers they also want their blogs to receive good amount of visitors daily. So this post is really going to help them.
As we know, Travel blogging is one of the in-demand niches in the blogging world. So, blogging on this topic is very cool. But a blog never runs without traffic. So we should always try to get some good no. of visitors daily.
There are a lot of reasons why people visit travel blogs:
  • They could be figuring out their next travel destination.
  • They could be looking for information on a place that they are already geared towards to.
  • They simply want to be amazed at a particular travel location which often ends up in planning for touring it.
These reasons may prompt a traveler to create a blog. But, before they do so, there are a couple of things to keep in mind when putting up a travel blog and among the most important of these is getting traffic to it.
Although a blogger is confident that he can supply his blog with the most amazing travel posts and images coming from his very own experiences, these won’t make sense if only a few people will be able to reach it.

To start off, here is a simple but helpful guide to getting traffic to any travel blog:

1. Create an enticing title for your travel blog.
Although the content’s quality is important in keeping the readers interested, an enticing title will attract readers in clicking the link of the blog in search results. A good title will create an impression that the blog is worth visiting and they will come to visit again.
2. Network with other travel bloggers.
If you think travel blogging is some sort of business where fierce competition prevents entities to harmonize with others in the field, then your travel blog will be on its way to doom. It’s alright or rather, it is advisable for travel bloggers to read other travel blogs and leave sincere and valuable comments that blog owners will not deem as ‘spam’. Travel bloggers should also practice guest blogging that reaps benefits both to the blog owner and guest blogger.
3. Promote your blog in social media sites.
Travel bloggers may find it unnecessary to register with social media sites for their blog thinking that their blog site is already enough to give them a good online presence. However, social media sites are so prevalent that almost everyone has an account with every popular site. For this reason, it makes perfect to promote the blog in sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.

4. Be sure to supply your travel blog with new content every now and then.
Who wants to read the same post over and over? To give readers and followers to visit your travel blog every now and then, bloggers should be sure to have new content that readers will look forward to always.
5. Content Quality should be maintained. Places should be well described.
Travel bloggers should also ascertain the quality of the content that he will supply his blog. Doing this on a regular and frequent basis can be really difficult and for new travel bloggers, it can even be impossible.
6. Build Connections with guest bloggers so that they provides new content.
You can invite guest posts from other guest bloggers. This will help you to get more content regularly. But you have to put some exert effort in reaching out to fellow travel bloggers, screen the submissions, look for images, etc.

7. Do some SEO so that when people search for new places the blog gets traffic.
The travel blog owners can also do some SEO to get traffic to their blog. They should also learn online marketing terms like SEM, SEO etc… as that helps as well. Often people search for details of a place before visiting it. So little work with SEO can help them in ranking their site higher in search engines.

8. Giving away of free holiday tickets can make your site go viral in Social sites.
It may cost a little but you will get a chance to expose your site most in social sites. You can arrange a giveaway where you will have a couple as winner, getting chance to visit a very beautiful place to enjoy their holidays.
But, one way that is gaining recognition among travel blogs these days is by hiring travel writing services. These travel content providers are equipped with expert travel writers located all over the world.
So follow all the above techniques and try to drive more traffic to your travel blog. If you’re using any other technique then do share with us via comments.

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