Pinterest and ThePlanetD
We’ve been kicking ourselves for not jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon sooner. Last October we were told about Pinterest by a fellow travel blogger to “Sign up now.
Expedia Travel Blogger Day, Opportunities for 2012
What are the online trends for travel blogging in 2012? we believe it’s going to be exciting. If our recent trip to the Expedia Head Office in Seattle is an indication, the future is looking bright.
ThePlanetD Joins Intrepid Travel for 2012
2012 is going to be the best year ever as ThePlanetD has partnered with our favourite travel company in the world, Intrepid Travel! It’s been a year building a wonderful friendship and now we’ve taken it to the next level. Who says friends can’t be business partners?
So You Want to Be a Pro Blogger in The Travel Business
So, you love to travel and you want to work in the travel business as a professional Blogger. Think you got what it takes? Ask yourself a few questions to find out.
A Travel Blogger’s Guide to Sponsorship
Finding a sponsor for your travel blog is an important part of achieving success in your field. We have found the working on partnerships and developing relationships with our sponsors has been of great value not only from our past adventures but for all of our future travels.
Getting to Know the New PlanetD
The past few months have seen a lot of changes here at ThePlanetD and the first order of business was a major overhaul of our website. Cosmetically, we have only made subtle changes but navigationally, user experience and organization, we have changed dramatically.
We’re Back, What’s Next?
What’s Next? We’ve been home from Mongolia for just over a week and that is the question we have constantly been asked. It’s a legitimate question, we are travel bloggers after all and we need to stay on the road to do our job. It’s been a very busy couple of years since we left for India in November 2009.
Search Engine Optimization, Get Traffic Now
As a blog, even at the beginning, you should take those small extra steps toward search engine optimization (SEO) for your travel website.
Honesty, Fear and Triumph – Dear Reader
Dear Reader. Have you ever had one of those weeks where everything seems to be going wrong? It’s not like we have had to deal with the Tornadoes of Mississippi or a Tsunami or Earthquake so it feels trivial to complain, however we have learned that stress can be relative.
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.
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?
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.
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?
Paris Here We Come, Thanks to Air France
Last month we wrote an article about the new Premium Voyageur class that Air France is introducing on their international flights. What we didn’t tell you was that we were involved in a contest put on by Air France Canada. Air France invited 20 top Canadian Bloggers to take part in helping to promote the new class. Well, it turns out we won!
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.
Travel Blogging as a Couple
We have several blogs that we admire and we often wonder how they manage to stay ahead of the game so well. Dave and I are lucky. We can split the workload. While it may seem to some that Deb does the bulk of the work because she writes the posts, that is only one portion of running a successful travel blog. We thought that we would share with you what the roles are of Dave and Deb at theplanetd.
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- We’ll be Right Back on May 23, 2012 by debndave - 2 Comments
- Top 5 U.S. Cities for Foodies (Besides New York) on May 22, 2012 by debndave - 14 Comments
- How Not to Get Locked Up Abroad on May 21, 2012 by debndave - 21 Comments
- Gondola Parking in Venice, Italy on May 17, 2012 by debndave - 9 Comments
- Honesty, Fear and Triumph – Dear Reader on May 27, 2011 by debndave - 166 Comments
- Petra by Night in Photos on May 4, 2011 by debndave - 149 Comments
- 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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