Introduction

Like any real life adventure, travel blogging is a journey. You will start out with nothing and work towards a goal but the journey to get there is hazy. You won’t know the way so you are bound to take a wrong turn here and there. But if someone has gone before, you’re less likely to make these same mistakes if the path has been clearly marked.

So, if you’ve decided to create a travel blog from scratch, there is one thing you should’ve consider to succeed that please don’t create a boring travel blog. In this article, we will share some incredible tips that will help you succeed as a travel blogger rather than just filling up space with empty words.

You need to have an idea of your angle, what makes your travels unique from everyone else’s. 

Let’s get started:

Top 10 Tips How to Succeed as a Travel Blogger

• Tip # 01 – Define the Purpose of your Travel Blog

Is it to entertain others? Is it to share secrets from the road? Is it to share your adventure with friends and family back home? To get free perks? Do you want to be rich and famous?

Any of those reasons is perfectly acceptable — okay, except for maybe the last two.

Travel bloggers that become successful have two main traits: They’re extremely hard workers, and they’re in it for the passion. They see the end goal could mean paid blogging trips, but in order to get there, you have to produce quality content consistently, and without expecting to earn a dime from anyone (this includes poorly places Google AdSense ads).

Answering this question first will help you determine the direction of your blog from the beginning.

• Tip # 02 – What do you like to read in other travel blogs?

Before you dive in with blogging, ask yourself what it is you like in other travel blogs. Is it the blogger themselves and how you can relate to them? Is it their photos? Is it their never-ending adventure, or the way they always make travel seem within reach, especially to destinations you may have never considered a “destination” before? Do you like reading about travel mishaps?

• Tip # 03 – Eliminating the thought of getting rich in the beginning

Professional travel bloggers, by and large, do a great job of providing quality content. The more real ones, however, make no secrets that they have a hard time making ends meet, whether it be due to late payments or just a bad month overall. And these are blogs that have been around for years, and have traffic of 200,000+ unique views per month!

This isn’t to say getting rich from a blog isn’t possible — but if that’s your goal, you need to research the field, find a niche, and run with it like hell.

• Tip # 04 – Write 10 to 15 Posts Before your Debut your blog

Unless you’re already a proficient writer, it’s TOUGH to maintain a strict writing schedule. You don’t want to see your blog die because your publishing goal was too unrealistic. 

(By the way, other top bloggers in the travel blogging field have already set the goal — they all started out by publishing 3-4 times per week.)

How long does it take you to write a quality post? An hour or two? Blogging should continue to come easily to you. But if posts take hours or days to write, then you’re going to have a much harder time being successful.

• Tip # 05 – Figure out what works and do it over and over again

Good blogging is all about experimentation and finding what works and what doesn’t, so make sure you try as many different experiments as you can. The important thing is to measure the results you get from each experiment so you can find out where your hard work is paying off and exactly where it’s not. Once you have a solid set of results you can then start to replicate the stuff that does work and continue to increase your results from replicating proven formulas. Also reading other people’s case studies can really help you to understand what works in blogging and what doesn’t before conducting your own experiments. 

• Tip # 06 – Don’t give up, especially in the first 12 months

Great things take time and as with travel blogging! So give it the proper amount of time that you’re going to need to be able to produce something successful. There is absolutely no point starting today and giving up in a couple of months. Work hard, experiment with different techniques, consistently produce awesome content and give it good amount of time before you decide to give up and not bother pursuing your blogging career.

• Tip # 07 – Focus on Goals and Objectives

The focus on goals and objectives is very important in travel blogging! What is it that you want to achieve and how are you going to get there? Do you want 10,000 Facebook fans? It’s a good goal but how are you going to achieve it? Do you want 1000 daily visitors to your blog? Well what are you going to do to get that figure?

Goals and objectives are very important in any business not just blogging. If you want the traffic what are you going to do to make sure you reach your traffic goal? Set clear goals and objectives and do everything you can to make them happen.

• Tip # 08 – Create Awesome Travel Content

Awesome content should now be the basis of any blog, especially in travel blogging where people experience via just reading blog content. With so much competition out there you can’t really afford to write anything less than awesome. Remember if you’re a travel blogger, you are in fact a writer so the only way to improve your skill as a writer is to continuously write. 

So practice every day and write content on a daily basis so you can continue to improve. Some of the top travel bloggers have been around for years and their ability to write great content is ridiculous and the only way to catch up is to practice every day.

• Tip # 09 – Become Expert of what you’re writing

When it comes to creating a blog on traveling – It’s a good idea to have knowledge on different topics related to traveling, such as accommodation, travel on a budget, food, transportation, and similar before starting. Although you will learn a lot on you journey and you’ll continue to increase your knowledge you won’t be able to produce effective articles if you clueless about the subject in the first place.

• Tip # 10 – Remember your blog will get better with time

Don’t get overwhelmed — it is VERY difficult to choose a niche and write 10-15 posts if you’ve never blogged before. Start with writing, and your voice will follow. You may even realize what niche you want to pursue after 10 or 100 posts, and that’s okay.

Travel bloggers that are the most successful are the ones who had a clear vision of what they wanted to represent early on in their blogging career, but others found their fame later down the road.

Conclusion

You now know exactly what it takes to become a highly successful blogger but the question now is how you are going to go about achieving it. Remember that goals and objectives are important so make sure you start by writing your goals and objectives down on paper and then go about making them happen.