What is Happening at ThePlanetD and Building our Blog; an Overview

The Planetd is finally at that point where we are no longer spending half of our time working on code or figuring out the layout. It has become a more relaxing place where we only really have to worry about posting each day.

While we are not traveling for another 2 months, we have found the past 5 months to be very rewarding learning the ins and outs of running a travel blog and we are feeling confident that things are going to be very exciting once we start to travel.

We have read that to make money, you must have more than one site. We originally wanted to have 3 on the go before we left, but we soon realized that we needed to concentrate on making one blog informative and interesting before we could even think about launching other sites.  We wanted to make sure that we had quality content and we wanted to establish ourselves as authorities in travel before we spread ourselves too thin.  This has worked for us.

We feel that we would have let the content at ThePlanetD suffer had we tried to build too much too soon.

But it is definitely going to be our goal during our world travels however to launch more sites.

Dave is going to concentrate on his photography website writing about his insider tips that he learns out there and I am going to be working on another site that we started a couple of months ago, but is not nearly ready for a a launch.  We have already linked Dave’s site as our photo gallery, but it is definitely not ready to be used as a full blown photography site. This may have been a mistake to have our photos linked to another site but we wanted to start Dave’s photography blog and we found the gallery to be much nicer than what we could do with this template.

The good news is that we are now understanding the importance of having subscribers, the use of affiliates and the importance of the community.  We stumbled around for the first couple of months here at this website, but in time we built a bit of a niche market and made some very good friends.

It has been difficult to focus on Adventure Travel while we were living and working here in Canada, but once we start traveling, it is going to be one big Around the World Adventure and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Now on to business.

We are thrilled to have a guest post at TheTravelTart it is certainly a very fun website filled with excellent information and humour.  When he put out the call for guest posts, we jumped on the chance to be a part of it and are so happy to have been humorous enough to make the cut. So check it out and see what you think.

We have found that having guest posts ourselves has been a very rewarding experience. We have started the series Giving Back, Travel the World and Make a difference.  We have been touched and inspired by the stories that we have recieved from VelvetEscape, TheTravelExperta and ALittleAdrift. This series is happening every Tuesday for the next little while and stay tuned for tomorrow’s installment.

We are still looking for guest contributors, so if you have any experiences volunteering, teaching English, raising money or awareness for a cause, have you visited any projects, wildlife sanctuary’s or even written articles about a community in need, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for all of the different ways that travelers can help change the world.   Drop us an email if you have some ideas  at [email protected]

The past few weeks we have decided to organize the website a little. Not traveling means that we must come up with interesting content every week.  This is where we have sort of come up with theme days.

• Tuesdays are our guest contributors series,
• Wednesdays are our World Wildlife articles
• Fridays we have come up with a bit of an advice day
• Mondays have become our week in Review.
• We fill out the other days with destination pieces or we take the day off.

We don’t want to bore our readers with content just for the sake of having content, so if I can’t come up with an article that doesn’t excite me or interest me on a certain day, than I would rather not post.

Plus at this point, since we are leaving soon…we are trying to enjoy our weekends with family and friends so I have to admit we have been neglecting the internet on these days a little bit:)

So that is our week in review for ThePlanetD on this last Day of August. We have given our 60 days notice at our apartment, we have decided that we will be flying into Kerala India in November and then the adventure will begin!

You may be wondering about the Vantastic Adventure. Well, we have given up thinking that we have any chance whatsoever. There are some great videos on the site and although we haven’t lost all hope, we have to start making our plans. We are going to hold off buying our tickets and getting our Visa’s until this legs winner is announced at the end of the week, but to actually win a contest is pretty slim so we are focusing on our upcoming travels instead.

Thanks to all of the people that joined the group and voted for us your support means a great deal to us!