Social Media Week in Toronto, Will You be There?
Social media is taking over the world and for one week in February Toronto is hosting an event along with several other cities around the world from Feb 13th to the 17th.
What’s With All the Hatin’ in Travel Blogging?
What is with all the hating going on between travel bloggers? Has everyone forgotten why they got into this business? Is it not for the love of travel? This past week a well known travel website decided to spread anger and distrust within the travel community.
Social Media and Blogging-Balancing Both
With all the lists that are coming out lately we are beginning to wonder what we are supposed to be focusing on in the travel blogging world. It seems that Klout and other social media monitoring sites are becomming the new standard for who is influential in the travel world. These sites are actually dictating who people should follow and paying attention to. It seems that the more active you are on things like Twitter and Facebook, the more people are taking notice of your writing and photography. We had heard that Virgin Airlines went to Klout.com and gave away flights to all the top tweeters on Klout.
Increasing Traffic with Easy Tweaks
We are one month away from hitting the road again and we are getting closer to reaching our goals with revamping our blog.It has been one of the busiest summers on record. Who would have thought that travel blogging could be so time consuming. Especially when we were not travelling that much!The summer has been filled with making changes to ThePlanetD.
Why Your Website Sucks, A Review
The newest Travel Partners ebook is out and we absolutely love it. First of all the title, can it be anymore fun that this? Why Your Website Sucks! Let’s face it, there are a lot of sucky websites out there that just need a little nudge in the right direction to make them suck less. Why Your Website Sucks covers easy tweaks and advice on how to write for your audience, research your market and appeal to your target.
Best Online Applications for Travel Blogging
Last week we posted a few of our favourite desktop applications that we use for Travel Blogging. We shared our favourites but we learned so much more from other peoples suggestions. So now that we have covered our favourite desktop applications in the post Top Applications for Travel Bloggers, we would like to share our top online applications that we like to use. So here goes our list of the Best Online Applications for Bloggers.
10 Essential WordPress Plugins for Travel Blogging
There are countless tools to promote a website on the Internet. Social networking sites such as twitter and stumbleupon have become essential to driving traffic to a blog. While it is important to attract readers to your travel blog, it is even more important to keep them on your site. You want your readers to spend time exploring your hard work.
In the Footsteps of Velvet Escape…We’re Taking a Break
It is the long weekend here in Canada and we thought what better time to take a few days off from the website. We were inspired earlier this summer by Keith at Velvet Escape. He disappeared for a few days. He didn’t tweet, facebook or blog. It is a difficult thing to do as a travel blogger, but sometimes it needs to be done. And we thought, if an excellent successful guy like Keith can take a few days off, we will too! Well, Maybe Not…
Blog Changes and Website Business
It is that time again. Every so often we like to give our readers an update on what we have been up to behind the scenes of theplanetd. This summer has been light on travel but very heavy on travel blogging and business. we definitely made a lot of tweaks to change the look of the blog by widening it, changing the colours and cleaning up our side bar.So have the changes made any difference?
Being Home without a Home
Dave and I have a couple of odd personalities. We know it. Whenever we are travelling, we long for home and whenever we are at home, we long to travel. Now that we are Blogging about our travels and have a sense of purpose when we are on the road, we long for home a little less. We love travel, but we always found that when we were away for months on end that we lost our reason for getting up every morning. Endless travel can become just as old hat as working too much when you are at home.
What We Loved This Week in Travel
Last week we wrote a a post about how to keep your blog running while you are not traveling. It helped me out a lot as we are not on the road right now and won’t be going anywhere for another 3 weeks. I know that isn’t very long, but the past 8 months have been extremely easy to write about. When we are on the road every day, the content pratically writes itself. It has helped to go around the Internet and read some of my favourite blogs for inspiration as well and today, I would love to share some of the posts that have inspired me, made me think, made me laugh and made me cry.
Tips to Keep your Blog Running when Not Travelling
So you’ve finished your round the world trip, you had amazing stories to write about every day while you were away. But now you are home, settling back into the daily routine and you don’t have any content to put into your blog. Does this mean that you can’t keep your beloved blog going? After all your hard work, is this the end? Will people stop coming to your blog and it will eventually fall into cyberspace oblivion? Not True At All.
Why Meeting Fellow Travel Bloggers is Important
Recently we have had the chance to meet several fellow travel Bloggers. Over the past year, we have been on our own trying to bounce ideas off of one another while working in our travels. While that has worked out well to a point, it hasn’t been until these past couple of months that we have been really inspired and excited about the future of travel and blogging.Everyone that we met these past few weeks have become great friends. We will all help and support each other as we all learn and grow together.
7 Links Blog Challenge
We interrupt this media week to bring you the 7 Links Challenge brought to you by Problogger. Problogger is the biggest Blogger on the Internet and when he recommends trying something new on your blog, we follow. So we decided to take his 7 Links Challenge. The concept is to make a link to 7 specific posts in your blog. He even gave guide lines as to what posts you had to link to. It was a challenge, but we finally came up with the links for the following posts listed below. Check out our 7 Links Challenge and then start your own!
The Business of Travel Blogging. Week 1 – Change
We have been a couple of busy little Canadian Beaver ‘s this week working on our blog. We have taken the summer to work on refining ThePlanetD and finding companies to partner with. It is a lot of work and we are entering foreign territory. We have been working on code and making a few changes.
Social Media with ThePlanetD
Did you know that there are many other ways to connect with and enjoy theplanetd on the Internet besides having to type in our address each day? You can receive emails updates in your inbox or blog feeds daily on your homepage. You don’t have to worry about checking our site to see what is up, we can come to you.
Summertime Goal, The Business of Blogging
The past 8 weeks have been the best of our life. I am not exaggerating. We have had some of our most fulfilling travels happen in that time, we have made amazing new friends and at the same time we have enjoyed quality time with our families and reconnected with old and dear friends.Life has been very balanced and wonderful.But now what?
Travel Blog Exchange 2010
It is a week away from the 2010 Travel Blog Exchange in New York. We are looking forward to meeting some of our favourite bloggers and friends at these exciting event. But more importantly, we are looking forward to learning from some of the leading authorities in the travel blog community. We are currently at sea in Alaska, but we are already thinking about the questions that we are hoping to have answered at the conference. We won’t be able to make it until day two of the Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) but luckily for us there is a great line up on Sunday the 27th.
Premium Voyageur on Air France Our Review
Back in January we entered a contest where we had to let people out there on the Internet know that Air France has launched a new class, the Premium Voyageur Class on many of their long haul flights. We thought it would be fun to do the research and write the post and as it turned out our article Air France Launches New Premium Voyageur Class won. During our flight home from France we were in our proper place in the new Premium Voyageur Class and we wanted to share what it was like with all of you.
Travel Blogging 3 Months In: How’s it Going?
It is a little over three months into our travels and running our travel blog has been fulfilling, exciting, time consuming and at times confusing. We wrote a post at TravelWritersExchange about how to keep up the blog while traveling to give you an idea of how we do it.
But we thought that we would share the things that we have had difficulties with, things that we want to change in the blog and directions that we want to take.
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- What’s With All the Hatin’ in Travel Blogging? on October 29, 2011 by debndave - 127 Comments
- So You Want to Be a Pro Blogger in The Travel Business on November 14, 2011 by debndave - 126 Comments
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