Brand and Bloggers: Where Do We Start?
Flight Centre Social Media Specialist in Canada shares valuable lessons she’s learned over the past year and tells us the Do’s and Don’ts when it comes to working with brands.
Get Your Travel Blog Noticed
Travel Blog Advice. The other night at a Toronto Travel Massive meet up someone asked how to work with tourism agencies and PR companies. People seem discouraged that only a handful of Travel Bloggers end up on press trips or partner with companies.
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.
How to Use StumbleUpon
We’ve had a lot of requests to write a post about how to use StumbleUpon. This can be one of the most exciting tools in driving traffic to your site. So here is a step by step guide on what we do each week when using StumbleUpon.
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.
Dark Days for ThePlanetD
At first we thought that nobody cared about the Mongol Rally. We were feeling pretty bummed as we watched our readership plummet each day that we drove from England to Mongolia.
My 7 Links
Recently we were nominated by Inspiring Travelers to take part in the 7 Links Project started by Trip Base. I actually first saw this exercise at ProBlogger and thought it was a great idea.
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.
A Travel Bloggers Guide to Press Trips
Over this past year we have been fortunate enough to have been invited on several press trips.We have learned a lot during these trips, At the same time we made a lot of mistakes.
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.
ThePlanetD Around the Web
The past couple of months have been our busiest in travel ever! With all this traveling and tackling new and exciting adventures, we have had very little time to promote our life online.
Muay Thai, The Final Day
It is our last day if kickboxing at Rawai Muay Thai in Thailand and it started off with a bang. A very loud bang as our computers fell onto the tile floor that is. Oh, and on to our 1 terabyte external hard drive with all our photos from Fiji and China sitting inside. We didn’t have time to assess that damage as we had to leave for an orphanage in Phuket.
Happy New Year 2011!
Wow! Has a year gone by already. Time has flown by and yet stood still all at once. It feels like a lifetime ago that we were standing on the roof of our friend Hussein’s hotel in Jaipur, India a year ago today. Was it really only 13 months ago that we left our careers to pursue the life of full time travel bloggers?
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.
Make Money with Your Travel Blog Holiday Sale
NomadicMatt’s excellent ebook is on sale for the Holidays! We are now traveling the world fulfilling our dream of being full time travelers. It wasn’t always this way. We had loved to travel, but had to keep coming home to work and save money between trips.
Week in Review, Counting Down to Travel
The blog is starting to feel like we have actually gotten it to where we want it. We like the layout and we like the plugins that we have added to the site. Changing the Subscribe to us button has helped increase our subscribers and by adding the subscribe to comments plug-in at the end of posts has added a feel of a conversations going on.
A Week in Review at ThePlanetd Blog, August 3
So many things happen each week that I understand why there are so many blogs out there dedicated to running a website. Now that I have made a point of stating that I will be starting a regular segment at the Planetd, I suddenly worry that I won’t have enough to write about, and yet I have been writing this weekly update for over a month. So let’s give it a shot.
Week in Review: The Slow Guide to Building a Better Travel Blog
I have found that every Monday or Tuesday, I have been writing a little review of what steps we have taken to build our travel blog each week. It helps me to organize my thoughts, but I also enjoy sharing my trials and tribulations with people.
Twitter,Travel Tuesday, the Week in Review
Have a happy Travel Tuesday and keep twittering. If you haven’t joined twitter, join it. It is fun, informative and if everyone is right, it is the wave of the future.
The Week in Review, Life as a Travel Blogger.
It has been a busy week out there in cyberspace. We have been working solidly on rebuilding our blog for a couple of months now and time flies when you are on the computer for days on end.
First of all we want to thank John at JetSetCitizen for interviewing us for his blog. We learned a lot about ourselves while answering questions. I hope that we can inspire people to take off and explore their dreams. Check out the interview here and let us know what you think.
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- How Virtual Tourist Opened My Eyes to Inspiration on February 8, 2012 by debndave - No Comment
- Crossing the Drake Passage to Antarctica on February 7, 2012 by debndave - 8 Comments
- Top Thrill SeekingThings to do in New Zealand on February 7, 2012 by debndave - 6 Comments
- Fiji – What to do on the Main Island on February 6, 2012 by debndave - 1 Comment
- Yangshuo Cooking School A Culinary Delight in China on February 1, 2012 by debndave - 12 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 - 144 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 - 122 Comments
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