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.
We are very excited that our blog is going to be featured on TravelBlogs. What an honor for us! It was less than two months ago that we decided to dust off the old keyboard and start blogging again. It feels like it has been much longer, but now with a lot of work and effort, we feel that our site is coming along nicely, and we appreciate the acknowledgement from other Bloggers and forums out there
We also want to thank John at JetSetCitizen for interviewing us for his excellent travel website. We learned a lot about ourselves while answering the 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.
We also have a guest article coming up on Wednesday at Travel Writers Exchange. We have more interviews and guest posts coming up in the next couple of weeks and we will keep you posted on what is happening. We even have a couple of book reviews that we will be doing. I am really looking forward to that. Stay tuned.
Things are quickly moving in the right direction and we are really enjoying revisiting our travels. I just love writing this blog and I love being inspired by the people out there that are making it happen. Nomadic Matt, Soul Travelers3, EverythingEveryWhere, Ottsworld these are people that left to travel once and for all. They are our role models, we are hoping that when we leave in less than 6 months, we will be able to continue our travels for an indefinite amount of time this time around just like the sites listed above.
We have definitely been learning a lot as we go. We have been twittering regularly, (come on over and visit us) http://twitter.com/theplanetd. We have learned to Stumble and digg, we have even had some people approach us to put their ads on our blog. We haven’t accepted yet, but we are looking into it. At least we are starting to get noticed out there.
We are meeting other great travel writers too. We are really feeling like we are becoming a part of a supportive and great community out there.
The hardest part of the learning curve has been trying to make our site more Search Engine Friendly. It is truly an art form. We are now going through all of our older posts and re-tagging everything, we are learning about keywords and link building. There is a lot to learn but it has been interesting and a fun ride. We didn’t even know that we needed to submit our blog to search engines a couple of weeks ago. We weren’t even registered with Yahoo; can you believe it?
We have put up some ads from commission junction and adsense and we have totally given our site and overhaul. I think that it is going well. We definitely still have a lot to learn, but we have learned a lot in 2 short months as well. So fingers crossed, maybe just maybe we will be able to earn money with our travel blog.
If you or anyone you know is a full time traveler, let us know, we would love to check out your site!
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Your blog is fantastic, and I wish you well in all your endeavours! I’m a big fan and will support you along the way!
By the way, what’s this thing about registering with Yahoo? Oh…I have so much to learn re: SEO, internet marketing, etc. Sigh. I’ve been having a pretty awful time at work. Since I came back from my maternity leave, the new manager DID NOT give me my old job back and basically made me into her assistant (and selling it to me as if she’s mentoring me…whatever!). People have been pushing me to file a complaint against her…but we’ll see…
You guys have been such a great inspiration! I love your blog and I sure look forward to your next adventure. Congratulation on your success so far and I know you will be even more successful. Your blog is one of my favorite and I know you guys still have a lot more to say.
Hi Guys!
I’m a fellow Canadian traveler who is also on the road full-time with my loving boyfriend. I just discovered your website (thanks to Eric at TravelBlogs), and you already have some awesome stuff on it – and you haven’t even left yet! Good for you. I look forward to reading lots more about your upcoming adventures.
Cheers!
Nora
We are actually building our blog right now, too, and are finding the community to be so supportive so far. We are leaving for our round-the-world trip in 3 months (eek – I can’t believe it is so soon)! I didn’t know that we had to register with Yahoo – I guess we will look into that. We haven’t signed up for twitter but maybe we should do that, too. More than making money on the internet, we really would like to find a community of travelers that we can bounce ideas off as we travel. It’s exciting to find other couples traveling like us. We will certainly add y’all to our links page.
SEO is complex, but there are lots of good books out there that demystify it. Lovely site btw, just discovered you!