6 Steps on How To Start A Travel Blog?

Now that you have decided to become a travel blogger, and you know the preliminaries, you must be looking for a start point, right!

90% of your travel blog rests upon the choice of your niche, and then circling your entire blog around that niche.

In this post, I will go beyond the traditional discussion of domain name and hosting and try to bring you to the perspective of your travel niche while designing your blog.

Although there is a separate post altogether for choosing the travel niche, here, I will cover its importance in brief before moving forward.

Basics of your Travel Blog

Here's where you would like to spend the maximum time brainstorming, as this will define exactly where your travel blog goes in the future. 

Here are 6 basic steps you need to follow to start of your travel blog. 

1. Identify your travel segment or niche. 
2. Choose a blog name based on the segment
3. Launch a Test Blog with a sub domain
4. Start writing and publishing your stories.
5. Check response and feedback. 
6. Go for a paid domain based on response on the free blog

Identify Your Travel Niche:

Speaking of a travel niche, it means choosing a segment that best fits your interest and it defines your travel style. 

Although you are free to explore diversions from your basic interests but keeping a more specific blog helps you share your expertise in that particular segment. 

The more closely you are able to define your segment, the easier it gets for you to do a specific research on that segment and share your products and services accordingly. 

For example, if you like adventure travel, lets say, paragliding, your blog should be oriented to include the basics of paragliding, how to train, where to find good gear, and where to practice, etc. 

By focusing your blog to the specific adventure travel and then to paragliding, you work in a more focused area and hence, the traffic that you will receive will be specific to your topic. 

Choose a blog name based on the segment

Now that you have chosen your travel segment, it is time to think of a name for your blog. Most bloggers go for this step first and then work out the rest. However, identifying what segment you are comfortable with lets you identify names much easily. 

When you choose a name, take into account the following two things:-

1. The blog name should be specific to the segment you are planning to work. 
2.  It should reflect your core idea or belief. 
3. It should be the primary keyword for your blog. 

Launch a Test Blog First

I will recommend this to everyone to first launch a test blog and check the response before going all in for your blog. 

There are few reasons for that. First, you should learn your way on the basics of how the blogging platforms work, what is the traffic size you are getting and overall response of your blog. 

Play around to see how others are working, and then make a decision. Unlike other businesses where one does not get the choice of a 'net practice', there are free platforms with a well-established community that will quickly orient you and help you form a network of followers. 

Finally, there are methods to migrate your blog to a self-hosted platform. But, that's a long journey. On the contrary, if you already have some experience related to blogging platforms, you can directly go for self-hosting your blog. 

Start writing and publishing your stories

When you have started off with the free version of Blogger / Wordpress, it is time to now simply write and publish your stories. 

Again, in the beginning, it is a good idea to learn how the blogging network functions. Gather some feedback on your blog by connecting with other bloggers in the network, following, liking and commenting on their posts and social networks. 

Another great way to increase your reach is to connect with blogging forums. You can start off with some good networks such as Indiblogger, Blogchatter, Blogadda etc. 

These forum websites quickly put you up in front of thousands of readers in no time and help you create a personal brand value.

Check response and Feedback

Now it is time to check the responses on your posts. Both Wordpress and Blogger have independent analytics integrated on their blog where you can check the traffic size, country, post wise traffic on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. 

If you have been interacting regularly with other bloggers, you can also expect the other bloggers to share their feedback on your blog. Remember though, that it is only the content at the end of the day, that will define an honest response. 

Time to self-host your blog

Finally, there is no time when to go in for a leap of faith! You can quickly scale your blog when you find a good response on your content and receiving adequate viewership to earn from your blog.

Here, you should remember that there are many other ways other than Google Adsense to earn on your blog. so, even if you are not earning right away due to Google Adsense, do not worry.

In this blog, we will see many more ways to earn from your travel blog.

So stay connected. 

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