Travel blogging is the most well-known format which is blowing up these days. Whether you're going to start a new travel blog or you already have one, there are a number of tips, advice, and tricks about travel blogging. Starting a blog can be rewarding and beneficial for the long haul. You will find a lot of travel and tourism blogs online, and every one of them is different in its own way. With some guidance, you will easily learn how to start a unique travel and tourism blog or website.
Always remember, if you're planning to do something, move ahead and do in an effective manner. You will be enjoying the whole process. So listed beneath are some of the basic tips for travel blogging.
1. Join Twitter. Then jump to the travel blogging community. This community will help you a lot. These are advice givers. Therefore, participate properly; give back and in return you'll be rewarded.
2. You need to self-host your travel blog. You need to select the appropriate domain for your blogs like Blogger or BlogSpot. Approach the domain purchasing sites, get an appropriate domain name, visit WordPress.org and start your own blog. You will love the move.
3. Set the default setting of URLs to some descriptive terms. The default setting then generate URLs which have an ending with numbers like /? 7643. These are horrible for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes. The task is simple. What do you need to do? Approach dashboard then goes to administration tab and press permalinks button. Select an appropriate title format which picks the desired words from the title and then try to remove the useless words, like "the,"to,"a" etc.
4. It is a good idea to add a re-tweet button with the help of a plug-in on your website. Twitter is the universal tool at the present moment. And ensure that settings are made appropriately. Because with the help of this setting, your @address automatically comes up when a person hits RT button.
5. Publish post regularly on your blog. As you all know content is the king. So post engaging and useful content so that visitors visit your blog again and again. Always try to give useful and precise content. Publish 3 to 4 times in one week in order to get the following. In case you're having bad internet access, compose some posts and then schedule in such a way that will post automatically. This is easy in self-hosted WordPress website.
6. Add social media buttons. You must have a Facebook page and an appropriate button which link it to your blog or website. You can also use StumbleUpon. Twitter is also a good choice. You will also find other social networking sites like Delicious, Digg, etc. These social media buttons will help you a lot in your travel blogging.
To conclude remember all the above-mentioned points of travel blogging. If you've good and engaging content, you'll notice that everyone has the power to communicate the word. Write easy to read and simple content. Add attractive and beautiful photographs related to travel and tourism. With the current hectic environment maybe it's time to go away on holiday for some peace and relaxation. Hong Kong will still be there but hopefully calm again.