Blog Your Way Around The World

Blog Your Way Around The World

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Do you travel a lot? Do your friends come to you for travel advice instead of
Lonely Planet? Are you constantly correcting ignorant tour guides and filling
up memory cards with all your holiday and travl photos?

If this sounds like you, you should definitely consider setting up a travel
blog, if for some reason you don't already have one. Even if you've never
blogged before it's easy to get started. Here are some questions to ask
yourself before starting a blog.

"What will you call it? -Naming your blog is important if you want
people to keep coming back to read it. Give your blog an informative,
unusual, yet memorable title, to help people remember it.

"What platform will you use? - There are heaps of free blog sites,
such as Wordpress or Blogger, and many offer 'travel blog' themes and
layouts to make it easy for travellers to upload their writing, pictures,
videos and other media. If you already have a blog, you could add your
travel writing as a separate section or category of the site.

"What are you going to write about?- Are you going to focus on a
specific theme or aspect of travel? "Chocolate cake adventures around the
world"? Where to find bargain flights to Singapore, the US or South Africa?
Something more general? Offering a quirky blog on an interesting niche
topic not many people would think to write about can set your blog apart
from the thousands out there. Funny anecdotes, lists of How To's, Top
Tens, Best Flights you've been on, and lists of things to do in certain places
of the world are much more interesting than boring accounts of everything
you did that day.

"What do people want to know about you? - Readers often want to
know a little about the person writing the blog and what your individual
insight is, so consider including an "about me" page on your blog.

"How will you make it look good? - The appearance of your blog is
extremely important, as people are more likely to keep reading something if
it looks good. Consider the overall colour schemes and layout, and try not
to have too many widgets, background images, or a complicated site
navigation system. Blogging tools these days make it easy for even
beginners to make a visually attractive site.

"How will you get attention? - If you use other social media, such as
Facebook or Twitter, make sure you include links to your blog on these
sites to help people find you and start reading your work. You can also link
back to your own blog if you write any other online work, or make
comments on blog sites and other websites.


About the Author:
With these simple tips, youll soon be blogging about that how you got those last-minute cheap flights to Thailand or that amazing dessert you had in Italy.



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