A-Z WordPress Travel Blog SEO | You won’t need another Guide after this

The complete guide on how to optimize the individual WordPress Blog SEO items. 

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Travel Blog SEO: Title

The first thing a user sees on the Google search result is the title of your blog post. An SEO title is a part of SEO title tag. It should be easy enough so that search engines and a human can easily understand it.

Here are some of the tips what not to do in your SEO title tag when you title your blog post for travel blog SEO:

  • For SEO page title, the character limit of the title should not exceed 50-60 characters including the white spaces.
  • A title SEO should not be misleading. You might write over a topic which is searched very less but still, you should still stick with the same title which describes the overall idea of your blog post.
  • A misleading title will pull down your google ranking.
    Let’s say you give a misleading title to a blog post. It might go up in the Google search result leading to many visitors coming to your site. But they find the title misleading, they will quickly close the page.
  • This signal by the users will increase the bounce rate of your travel blog and also decrease the time spent on a travel blog by users. Since these two parameters are one of the most important parameters in deciding the SEO for a blog, a bad scoring on Google, thus, will pull down your blog ranking.

In travel blogging, there are mostly three things that we travellers answer.

  • How?
  • When?
  • What?

Try to answer one or all of these answers in your blog post. Like What answers am I going to provide in this travel blog post to a user?

  • It could be about the entry timings (When?), entry fee (What?), how to reach (How?) or the history of the place (What?) etc. Because most of the users want a quick and specific answer.

Here is an example of how I chose a title for ‘Ramoji city, Hyderabad’ blog post:

When I decided to write a blog over ‘Ramoji film city, Hyderabad’. I saw that there were already hundreds of blog posts about this place. I cannot simply write over this place again. That would be more like adding a drop of water into the sea and getting lost. So, I tried to be specific and looked out for the questions mentioned above: ‘How?’ ‘When?’ and ‘What?’ and then I decided that I would answer only ‘when?’ and ‘what’ questions of the users.

So, I gave the title as ‘Ramoji film city, Hyderabad: entry fee, tour, timings & photos‘. I answered the very specific question about the entry fee and timings of this place. And this blog post has been performing better and better since then. Had I not answered the specific questions about entry fee or timings to this place, I might not have been able to rank better in Google.

Similarly, you should look out for what specific answers you are giving to your readers as a traveller. Do some related keyword research as well and then give a title.

SEO Title length:

Google search engine displays first 50-60 characters of your blog title. So, ideally, the maximum SEO title length should be around 55 characters. On the other hand, the minimum SEO title length should be 40 characters. Both of these lengths are including white spaces.


Travel Blog SEO: Permalink

When you start writing a post in the WordPress, there are two things to look out for: Blog post title and permalink of the blog. Remember that Blog post title can be changed if you find some better title for your blog post but you should not change the permalink of your blog post at any cost.

What is the difference between the Title of a blog post and Permalink?

The Title of a blog post is something like giving a name to a blog post. This name can be changed later and it does not affect your Google ranking so much. On the Other hand, permalink of a blog post, as the name suggests, is a permanent link to blog post. A permanent link is a URL which Google shows up in the search result.

Here is an example showing difference between permalink and title:

I have a blog over Nalanda University. It talks about the history of Nalanda University, its ruins, ancient classroom system, its library and how was it destroyed. So when I wrote this post I titled it as “Ancient Nalanda University Bihar: History, Ruins & Images” because I had a lot of photographs of this place and I thought I would put the images in the blog post and titled the blog post accordingly.

When I published the post for the first time, the permalink of the blog post thus was: “https://trekkerpedia.com/2014/05/ancient-nalanda-university-bihar-history-ruins-images/”. Later, I realized that people searching over the Google about Nalanda University were more interested in ‘Library ruins’ than just ‘ruins’. So, I changed my blog post title from “Ancient Nalanda University Bihar: History, Ruins & Images” to “Ancient Nalanda University: History, Library Ruins & Images”. Even though I have changed the title of my published blog post, the permalink of this blog post would remain the same.

Why should you avoid changing the permalink of a blog post?

I could have also edited the permalink but I decided to avoid that for the following reasons:

  • Once Google has indexed your site then changing permalink will give you a ‘404- content not found’ on your site which is a bad sign. Below is the explanation.

Once we publish a blog post for the first time, a permalink is automatically generated by the WordPress settings. This permalink is then included in the sitemap of your blog. A sitemap is an XML file which contains the URLs of all of your posts. This sitemap is used by Google bots or Google programs to index these URLs of blog posts on Google search engine.

Now imagine that you published a blog post, a permalink was generated, it was further indexed on the Google search through your sitemap and then, finally you decide to change the URL of your blog and you change it. But on the other side, Google has your old URL now and it is directing users to the old URL for search results. Since that URL will not be found so it will give an HTML-404, page not found error. For which Google will penalize you.


Use of Header such as H2, H3 etc for SEO in a travel blog post:

When I thought of writing a post about Babadham story, a story about a Hindu pilgrimage in India. I had many things to write about but I did not know how to begin. So, I decided to cover the whole topic in different sections and name each section with a relevant heading which will enable the readers to read whatever they want. These headings also worked as a header for SEO for Google ranking.

If you think your blog post as a short story book, then, the title of the blog post is the name of the book and each chapter’s name is the heading of your blog post.

Use of header for SEO of travel blog

 Giving a heading does not only build up the interest but also, it makes the whole content looks more presentable and readable to a user with more of white spaces into the blog post.

Proper use of header for Seo:

 There is a total of 6 types of headers: from H1 to H6. Each header denotes decreasing importance making H1 the most important and H6 the least.

  • You think like this about proper use of header for SEO in WordPress. Your title is in H1. H2 will be any subtitle or main headings. H3 will be sub-headings.
  • Beyond H3, other headings are highly unlikely to be used in a blog post.
  • Best SEO practices say to use only one H1 heading in your blog postwWhich is the blog post title in WordPress.
  • Headings and subtitles should be in H2. These headings should cover the other related keywords for a post.
  • Sub-subtitles or sub-headings should be in H3 if at all they are needed.
  • Never jump over to H3 directly from H1. It decreases the importance that we try to emphasize on the headings of a blog post.
  • Do not stuff the same keyword in all the headings. This is a bad practice.

Anchor texts, internal links, and pagination are a great way to engage visitors on a blog post, especially on a travel blog post because they are one of the greatest navigational factors of a blog post.

How to use Anchor text in a blog post?

Anchor texts are kind of internal links to another post of a blog. If you want to use anchor text for a link within a page like they do in Wikipedia, here is a good site which explains the link within a page. Following the industry standard also makes a better impact on our blog.

Best practices of pagination in a blog:

Pagination is a way to divide your single posts into different posts. It ensures easy navigation through the post and all makes the blog look clean. However, it should be preferred for the longer posts. I usually paginate a page which is over 1000 words of length and divided into sections with headings.


Travel Blog SEO: Image optimization

Images are one of the easiest and greatest parts of the content to make a greater impact on a blog SEO. Reducing image size and keeping optimum image dimension can help improve the user experience and also make an impact on the travel blog SEO. Unlike other genres of blogs, readers like to see more images on a travel blog. Images are a great source of SEO, user interaction and making your blog post look more readable and presentable with a good photograph.

Image optimization & SEO:

Most of the travel bloggers are travellers too. And we travellers use DSLR or even normal camera to take pictures of the places we go. The size of these photos is in MBs. Let’s say you have 5 pictures on the average in your blog post. That means to load your blog post, much data will be needed to load the entire post. On a slower connection, a user might get frustrated with slow image loading because of its size and close your site. Thus closing the site without reading or scrolling much will signal the user’s behaviour to Google.

Hundreds of such users’ behaviour might land you in getting penalised by the Google in ranking. Thus, the size of an image is something which is making a greater impact on your blog SEO. On a slower connection, a user might get frustrated with slow image loading because of its size and close your site. Thus closing the site without reading or scrolling much will signal the user’s behaviour to Google. And hundreds of such users’ behaviour might land you in getting penalised by the Google in ranking.

Thus, the size of an image is something which is making a greater impact on your blog SEO. So here are some useful steps in managing your images for your blog post.

  • Reduce the size of your image before uploading that in a blog post. You can use tools like GIMP or online web interface like Kraken.io to reduce the size of your image.
  • You can also use plugins like WP Smush to reduce image file sizes without losing quality. Moreover, it reduces the size of images while uploading the images. You can also bulk reduce the previously uploaded images at once. This plugin is free.
  • I have also noticed that images once uploaded on Facebook get much reduced in the size. So create a private album, upload and then download your photos from that album for reduced image sizes.

Optimum number of photos per blog for SEO:

  • I prefer to insert one image per 125 words or around per 10 lines in my blog post. This maintains a good ratio of image versus content in a blog post. Also, the inserted images are relevant to the content of the post.
  • I, as a travel blogger, prefer to put images which might help a user in giving visuals to the place. For example, in some of the blogs, I have put pictures about the particular camping locations in the middle of the forest or a particular spot which might be of help to my readers.
  • This helps in visualising the place and users prefer to return to the same site again because of the hints given through the pictures.

About best Image dimension inside a post for SEO:

Certainly, we can put images of larger dimension but they cover the most of the web page area. They make users scroll more if they want to read the content. So, instead of putting an image of the size of 1024 by 768 pixels dimension or 800 by 600 pixels dimension, I prefer to put 500 by 375 pixels dimension.

bigger image on a blog covers bigger area on a web page

As you can see in the picture above, how a big image is covering a larger area of my web page. On the other hand, if I use a little smaller image, along with the picture, a user can read the related content of the post also. As shown in the picture below.

smaller image covering lesser web page area

 Also, forget not to set featured image in a post. Featured images are shown on other web pages or at places where out blog post is shown along with the pictures.

Image title:

When we upload an image inside a blog post in WordPress. These images are stored inside a folder named ‘wp-content/uploads/<Image title>’. In the case of my travel blog, it will look like ‘https://trekkerpedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/<Image title>’.

Thus, the image title is used to create a unique permanent link to an image uploaded to a blog post. If you want to test this feature, right click on any image of my website and then click on ‘Copy link address’ or ‘copy image address’. It will copy the URL of the image. Then paste the same in a new tab of a browser and you will see the whole image coming up there.

Image Title, Caption, Alt text, description

Caption:

An Image caption is one of the most impacting factors which helps a blog reader easily relate to the content of the post and easily navigate their readings throughout the blog. Image caption enables us to display some text along with the image on our web page. You can also play around with the font type of the caption using simple HTML.

For example, you want your caption to be shown in italics, you should use HTML like <i> Sample text </i> or if you want the caption to be bold use <strong> Sample text </strong>. The same way, you can also include a URL in the caption.

Alt text:

Alt text is one of the most important factors which impact your Google search ranking in Google image searches. When you search for some of the Peppy images on Google, Alt text is the underlying feature which tells the Google bots or crawler about what the text is all about. So, an Alt Text is kind of a replacement for an image in the form of a text. Alt text is the most used feature for SEO.

Description:

If you want to use the description feature of the image, you can also use it. The Description field is mostly used in news channel and real time things where people need the description of an image like where the image was taken, whose image is that, what different circumstances the image is all about.


Travel Blog SEO: Keywords

Figuring out a keyword is another typical challenge that a blogger faces before beginning with a post. So here are some of the rules on defining a keyword which can give you a greater impact on Google search result :

  • Use a keyword which matches the intent of your entire blog. In a travel blog, the keywords that you use should match the traveling domain.
  • Try to be as specific as you can. Being specific while targeting the niche of your blog could be much beneficial for you.

How to use keyword seo in a blog post

For example: If you are going to write about a place, try to be specific about its peculiarity and specialty. Let’s say if I have to write about the Buda castle in Budapest, I will try to cover the history of this castle, how to reach Buda castle, its architecture, entry fee, entry timings and special things to see inside.

So, in this case, keyword might be Buda castle travel guide or traveling guide on Buda castle. But you have to make sure that your travel guide, in this case, covers the entire aspect of the place. If you ask why not just ‘Buda castle’ be a keyword? Well, it can be as well. But think, if you had been the reader, what features of Buda castle you might have been interested into. It could be its history, places to see inside the castle or just the image of the Buda castle at night.

Using keywords in a travel blog post could be trickier than we think. Because we have so many aspects to cover. That’s why, I am asking you to be precise in what are you going to write upon.

Unlike technical blogs where keywords are defined in forms of an operating system, how to steps, device name etc, in a travel blog post, the case is not the same. However, uses of the keywords in a travel blog post almost follow the same rule as for other blog posts. Here are some of the rules on-

  • Include a keyword in the title of your blog post
  • Also, include the same keyword in headings and sub-headings
  • Try to include the keyword in the first paragraph of your article.
  • Also, use the related keywords according to the blog post.
  • Also, use the keyword in the ‘alt text’ of the blog images.
  • If you are giving any external link or any internal link in a blog that should also be related to the blog post.

Sometimes, people also ask how many keywords can be included in a blog post? Well, I prefer using one keyword per 100 words. So, if an article is going to be around of the length of 800 words then, I will use the keyword around 7-8 times in the blog including the keywords used in the heading.

Using just a keyword is not sufficient for the Google SEO. Along with the keywords, you should also use related keywords in your blog post. However, this part becomes easier for a travel blogger and also helps in bringing more impact on your blog.

For example, if you are writing about traveling places around Bangalore, you can also use related keywords like ‘Weekend gateways from Bangalore’, ‘places to see around Bangalore’, ‘Places to visit around Bangalore’, ‘Long drives around Bangalore’ etc within the sentences. With these related keywords, a user can relate himself better with the post.


Travel Blog SEO: Category & Tags

Many travel bloggers want to know about the categories and tags for a WordPress blog. I consider Categories and Tags as a Fantastico pair. How many categories should be there? How many tags on an average a post should have?

Well, everything depends on the type of post. I have well over 25o blogs until now. But, the number of categories are around 10 to 12 for me. If you ask me to define categories on a travel blog, they will mostly be influenced by travel guide, region name, kind of travels etc. In short, all the Fantastico things you can imagine about traveling.

For example, categories based on kind of travel you do could be wildlife, adventure, road trips, history, monuments, culture, exquisite stays etc. You cannot use all these categories all at once but you can use some based on your knowledge of what kind of traveling you have mostly done.

In the same manner, based on the region name, your categories could be traveling Europe, Traveling South-East Asia etc. Suppose, you have done many hikes in the alps then you can also make a category like ‘Hiking in alps’ if you know that around 10 percent of your blog would fit there. So as a thumb of rule, categories should encompass most of your travel stories.

The reason behind using lesser number of categories that when you index your sitemap to Google and your sitemap also includes categories then a category which has significant numbers of posts might be shown in the Google result when someone searches for your site by name. Is not that awesome?

For example, I write most of my blog posts and articles over trekking. Obviously, trekking is one of my main categories. So, if you search for ‘Trekkerpedia’, you might see ‘Trekking’ in the search results.

Because most of my articles are over trekking. As shown below in the Fantastico Google Search result image.

Category under Google search result

How to use Tags for SEO in a blog post?

If Categories are the Fantastico parents then tags are the children and siblings. If categories would be the name of the chapters of your entire blog book then tags will be the name of the sub-headings inside a chapter.

For example, I write a travel blog over Tiger monastery in Bhutan. And I write my experience along with the trekking distance to the monastery, opening timings to the monastery, entry fee, opening season, the best time to visit etc. then, these should most probably be the tags of this blog post. In short, tags should answer the most of the queries people look out for. You can use Tags as a navigational guide about the place.

You can also follow the strategies of using some common tags in a few blog posts. For example, if I try to write about the treks in Himalaya and let’s say, I write over 20 treks in the Himalayas then, one of the common tags I can use throughout these articles is ‘treks in the Himalayas’.

In the same image shown above, you can also see ‘Pondicherry’. Pondicherry is a tag which I have used throughout the blog posts because again many of my articles revolve around Pondicherry. So now Google is considering that too. To rank better in Google search, you must be looking for optimizing your blog and target a specific keyword. However, it becomes really difficult when the specific keyword you want to target for travel blog SEO has multiple variants and thus multiple keywords.

Multiple Keywords SEO:

As an adventure travel blogger,  I mostly like to target about trekking. Since I am located in Bangalore, I would like to target for ‘trekking in Bangalore’ But the big question that arises out of it is: Is my blog post just going to be targeted over a single keyword for SEO.

There could many other variants for this keyword like:

  • Trekking in Bangalore
  • trekking places around Bangalore
  • Treks around Bangalore
  • Treks from Bangalore

Then how should I handle multiple keywords for SEO? At the first place, is it necessary at all? Yes, multiple keywords SEO is not mandatory but it is good to have it. If you use a few variants of a keyword that means you are targeting a wider range of readers.

So how to use multiple keywords in an article?

  • First, you should decide which keyword is going to be your primary keyword. That primary keyword should have less competition and should appear more in search queries on Google.
  • Then make a small list of some secondary keywords which you also want to target apart from the primary keyword. These secondary keywords could be some variants of the primary keyword or should be a long tail keyword if at all you want to include that in your post.

For example:

My primary Keyword: trekking in Bangalore
My secondary keyword: trekking clubs in Bangalore, Trekking places around Bangalore, Trekking spots in Bangalore etc.

Now you should be wise enough to use these keywords and here are some SEO tips on using multiple keywords in a single article:

  • Keep the primary keyword in the title tag (Name of your post or article)
  • Use the primary keyword in the first paragraph
  • Also, use the primary keyword in headers/ heading tags like H2, H3 etc.

Now comes the part about the secondary keywords:

  • Use some of the secondary keywords in other headings if possible.
  • Apart from the primary keyword, also, use secondary keywords scantily throughout your blog.

Here is an example of using multiple keywords in a page:

I recently wrote a blog about Ramoji film city in Hyderabad and I targeted on some of the specific keywords. Those keywords are:

  • Ramoji film city
  • Ramoji film city, Hyderabad
  • Ramoji film city entry timings
  • Ramoji film city ticket price etc.

You can go through the blog here: Ramoji film city, Hyderabad: entry fee, tour, timings & photos look for the uses of the multiple keywords in a single post. If you are more interested in SEO for a travel blog, you can use the page below where I have written and been updating about the travel blog SEO.

Okay, it’s probably not surprising, but I 100% love being a travel blogger. What for me once started merely as a part-time content creator for Trekkerpedia has become a full-time job. For me being a blogger is like having my own magazine and being the editor, photographer, writer, and stylist—all in one.

Many people dream about traveling the world for a living; and there are people that are actually able to do so that aren’t pilots, flight attendants, or businessmen. These people are known as travel bloggers and they get paid to visit and write about their major passion in life: travel. I know that must sound like a dream (and it is), but if you’re thinking of becoming a travel blogger too, I do have a few words of caution. Gaining an audience, let alone earning money with a travel blog, is not easy. And I think it’s important to say this upfront.

Travel blogging isn’t easy or any kind of blogging isn’t easy. The fact that you’re traveling and getting paid to do so while staying in top accommodations is what most people see. They don’t realize that there are a lot of struggles that go hand-in-hand with figuring out how to start a travel blog.

How To Start a Travel Blog

Some bloggers seem to pitch travel blogging as some kind of easy cure for all of life’s problems. “Just quit your boring life, start a travel blog, and follow your dreams! Soon you’ll be riding a unicorn!” Well, I think it’s better to have realistic expectations. Because of how search engines and social media work nowadays, the reality is you just won’t capture an audience right away. It definitely takes some hard work and patience.

It took almost two years for trekkerpedia.com to hit 50,000 pageviews monthly. On top of that, when we had a higher blog publishing rate compared to as of now.

How To Start a Travel Blog

That’s why I always say you should start any kind of blogging because, above all else, it seems like a fun thing to do (which it is). And certainly, if you keep doing it for a while (at least a year), you can see where else it can take you. In this guide, I’ll share everything I’ve learned over the past years about starting a travel blog and setting yourself up for success — whether you just want to do it for fun, as a hobby-with-benefits, or if you’re hoping to make a living from it.

The 5 things you’ll need to create an awesome travel blog on WordPress

Beyond your awesome writing and pictures, these are the 5 things you’ll need to build your travel blog.

  • Web hosting – this is the engine that will power your travel blog and make it available to visitors around the world.
  • Domain name – your blog’s permanent address. For example, ours is Trekkerpedia.com.
  • The free WordPress software – I will highly recommend you use self-hosted WordPress, located at wordpress.org. This is different from WordPress.com.
  • A WordPress theme – once you install WordPress, your theme controls how your travel blog looks.
  • WordPress plugins – plugins help you add functionality to your site without requiring any technical knowledge. You’ll use them to add maps of where you’ve traveled, travel galleries, and more.

How to set up a blog

Whatever your goals are, I highly recommend setting up your blog in a way that will keep working for you later. This will simply save you a lot of headaches as your blog grows and evolves.

Pick a travel niche

One of the most important things when setting up a blog is deciding on a travel niche. By deciding early on what you want to focus and blog about, you’re essentially coming up with ideas that you want your blog to be about. For me, I was interested in Adventure Travel and wanted to find a way to incorporate that in my name. So before you begin thinking of travel blog names, I suggest making a list of five things you’re interested in blogging about and what you want to focus on.

How To Start a Blog

Like food blogs, travel blogs are a dime a dozen, so it’s best to start by choosing a niche (especially when you eventually want to earn from travel blogging) that will help differentiate you from the pack, since general travel blogs will usually not fare well when it comes to SEO efforts.

Coming up with your Blog Name

Your blog name is important because it’s also what your blog is known as (your brand). While you’ll be able to change many things about your blog over time, your name is something you should stick with. Give it a fair amount of thought before deciding on it.

How To Start a Blog

I’m not a fan of using jargon or slang in your domain name, as I think that makes things confusing for people who don’t know it. The last thing you want is someone saying, “What does that mean?” or being confused. If someone has to think hard about the meaning, then you’ve already lost them. So don’t try to be clever!

A few general rules for settling on a blog name (which will also be your domain name):

  • It must easy to recall and easy to spell
  • It should also be not too long
  • It must not contain hyphens or numbers

Sign up for a hosting plan

WordPress hosting plans

A hosting company takes care of serving your pages to users. And having your own hosted space lets you do with it whatever you want. A paid host doesn’t care if you put ads on your blog, or customize it with plugins, or anything like that.

It’s kind of like having your own plot of land on the internet. You can build your own house on it. And then you can add more rooms later, or even tear it down and even build a more awesome house on top of the original foundation. You can’t do that with just a rental space (like some of those free blogging platforms out there).

Personally I would recommend you to go for a self hosted platform. WordPress.Org is generally the best self-hosted platform out there and it’s totally free. All you need to do is to purchase hosting (which is essentially where your blog will live.)

WordPress hosting plans

Word of Caution:

For the first few months, there won’t be much traffic on your blog. So, no need to go for a costlier hosting plan. Wait till you hit a certain visitor number on your blog before upgrading your hosting plan to a premium.

Also, when you start blogging, the chances are meagre that you would know what you are going to do in the coming months. Some bloggers make an adventure travel store on their blog, some start a booking engine and let others book travel events on their blog on a separate sub-domain. In those cases, look for hosting plans which would allow you to have some wiggle room. Because any idea can hit you hard overnight and out of the blue.

Very Important:

Being famous comes at a cost. As you and your blog grows stronger, there will be more attacks crawling on their way to your blog/ website. Be prepared. Learn & explore more or have someone who has your back all the time. Though it is a part of the later gameplan.

Install WordPress

install WordPress

After you’ve registered your domain name and chosen your hosting package, the next thing you’ll want to do is install WordPress. (WordPress is what will actually run the website. The host is simply the computer your site sits on.) WordPress is an open-source and free Web publishing application, content management system (CMS) and blogging tool built by a community of developers and contributors to make it easy for people to blog!

Install your theme

free WordPress blog themes

One of the most important things a blog needs besides good content is good design. People decide in seconds whether or not they trust your website and choose to stay. A visually unappealing website will turn off readers and reduce the number of return visits you get.

Luckily, there are lots of out-of-the-box options for you where you can download a predesigned theme, upload it to your website, switch it on, change some settings, and presto! A new look for your website!

You can get:

Free themes – Free themes are plentiful and for budding new bloggers looking to make their mark online. They seem like a great option, as they allow you to keep costs low. There are many great free themes online, but most of them are not amazing. If you plan on blogging for a long time, this might become a problem as your website grows. However, if you just need a simple design to blog for your friends and family, then go the free route. You can find some good free themes at wordpress.org.

free WordPress blog themes

You can decide to wait till you upgrade to premium before you hit a mark of a certain number of visitors on your blog. Not everything is super important at the beginning though.

Premium themes – The next step up from a free theme is a premium theme. Premium themes are paid themes that offer a bit more uniqueness, flexibility, and functionality. These cost $25 USD and up, depending on the developer and features.

I suggest getting a premium theme. Yes, it’s another cost — but here is why you should do it:

  • With a premium theme, you almost always get customer support from the developers. If you get in trouble, they are there for you. You don’t get that with a free theme.
  • With a premium theme, there are more controls and instructions so they are easier to change. Free themes don’t have that.
  • Premium themes tend to be a lot prettier.
  • Premium themes are faster and more SEO friendly.

Create your main pages

how to create a blog

After you’ve uploaded your theme, you’re going to want to make a few basic pages on your website in addition to the blog posts. The difference between a page and a post is that a page is a static piece of content that lives separate from the blog. A post is a blog post that gets “buried” as you write more and more. For example, this post is a blog post.

When I update again, another blog post will get put on top of it, and it will be pushed down in the archives, making it harder to find. But a page, like my About page, lives on the top of the website, right near the main URL, and does NOT get buried. It’s a lot easier to find. I recommend creating four basic pages to start:

how to create a blog

About page – This where you tell people about yourself and your history, what your blog is about, and why it will help them. This is one of the most important pages on your website, so make it personable!

Contact page – People need a way to reach you! Be sure to be very clear on what emails you will and won’t respond to, so people don’t send you spam.

Privacy page – This is a standard user agreement page informing readers what the applicable laws on your site are, that you use cookies, etc. You can find out-of-the-box examples throughout the internet.

Copyright page – This is a standard page letting people know you own this work and not to steal it. You can find out-of-the-box examples of these, too, throughout the internet.

Don’t go Berserk with tags, categories, & URL

This little travel blog will not be less than a dream project for you. There will be a lot of room to play around. One only word for you – HAVE PATIENCE

I have changed my permalink structure multiple times on my blog from the user readability point of view. A little change can cost you a lot in terms of permalink change from an SEO point of view. How to safely do it? Here is the link for you on changing  WordPress permalink without affecting SEO.

Permalink was just one of the troubles for me. I will confess that I have made many more mistakes than just permalinks and later regretted many sleepless nights. If I start remembering all the mistakes some of the key players were title, headers, image, anchors, tags, categories and a lot more.  So, at this point in time, I would want you to know what these little things are which can also sometimes become nuggets of nightmares for you. Here is the link for you.

Install helpful plugins for your blogs

must have WordPress plugins

WordPress plugins help you add new functionality to your blog without requiring any technical knowledge on your part. They’re one of the things that makes WordPress so awesome. And pretty much every WordPress site makes good use of plugins.

There are some must-have plugins for all sites, including travel blogs:

  • SEO plugins
  • Caching plugins
  • Social share button plugins
  • Security plugins
  • Contact form plugins
  • Gutenberg block plugins

Beyond those must-haves, Travel bloggers should also consider these plugins. While this can vary depending on your focus area, here are some good ideas:

must have WordPress plugins
  • A good photo gallery plugin such as NextGEN Gallery to share your travel pictures in a gallery
  • Plugins to help integrate with Instagram and Facebook
  • Slider plugins such as Nivo Slider to display amazing full-width photos
  • A lightbox plugin such as Simple Lightbox to allow readers to view your photos in a customizable lightbox
  • A map plugin to plot places and routes is a must-have when you want to start a travel blog. It helps to keep your readers engaged with you as you move from one place to another. Intergeo Maps plugin is available for free (and as a premium plugin). Interactive World Maps plugin is another fine option
  • Plugins like TravelPayouts help you add a travel booking capability to your blog. It helps your visitors find deals on flights and hotels to different locations while you earn a commission.

I know there are a lot of plugins to choose from, that’s why to make your work easy and learning from mistakes, I wrote a blog for 10 best & free WordPress plugins for travel bloggers. At the moment, this might be an old blog but it still worths a glance.

Build your blog’s audience

How To Start a Travel Blog

There are a few channels you can use to grow your blog’s traffic.

With millions of active users, social media can help your content reach the right audience. Adding Social media share buttons makes it easy for readers to share your content. Instagram and Pinterest are suitable platforms to promote your blog and should form part of your social media strategy.

Beyond that, you should also learn about SEO and topics like keyword research. Building an email list is another great way to grow a long-term audience.

One thing you also have to keep in mind always is that not all social media are appropriate for travel bloggers. Talking of a general trend nowadays, being a vlogger is more promising compared to becoming a blogger these days because of recent enhancement in technology.

How To Start a Travel Blog

So, here is a list of things that you can utilize on various social media channels:

  • Twitter – Travel announcements, Travel prizes, travel contests, etc.
  • Instagram – Travel photographies
  • Reddit – Niche travel announcements same as Twitter
  • Pinterest – Use as visual search engines with your photos
  • Quora – Answering travel queries and engaging audiences
  • YouTube & Facebook – Travel videos & experiences

If you already have a YouTube channel as well as a blog for yourself, here is an easy way to increase traffic to your website from YouTube. Here is the link for you.

Revisit

WARNING: Things are going to get more technical but they will surely help you in the long run. OR, if you are already a travel blogger, just keep on reading –

I think I am talking too much into the future but I cannot resist it either. Here are a few things that keep you on top of your blog strategy:

  • Always update/ revive/ refresh old blogs, especially the top ones to be in the top position. Here is a link for that but it would more appropriate for you when you will have a lot of traffic on your blog and a lot of data to decide from.
  • Be careful with AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). It’s very easy to rank with AMP pages (often referred to as mobile-first pages) but they come at a price.
  • With its limited functionalities, AMP pages might not give you all the leisures of playing around with the UI of your blog post. I hope Google and other teams working on it make it more user & functionality-friendly sooner. Here is a link to my experience (data-driven) on why did I drop AMP pages from my blog.

Here are my blog statistics after I dropped AMP from my blog:

How To Start a Travel Blog
  • There is a lot going on from the content marketing point of view. I was also a part of Fossbytes company which still relies heavily on its content to generate revenue from Google Adsense and affiliates. If your blog vehicle plans to hit that road in the future, I would suggest keeping yourself abreast of tools and technology before you get stacked under new tools.
  • Some of the tools that you might want to know from the content marketing point of view are SEMRush, Buzzsumo, Google trends, etc. Though I wrote this blog a long ago it still makes sense to me if you are looking forward to making a larger impact through your blog.
  • There is a lot more to learn and write about. But these experiences would surely give you enough to kick off your idea.

The Biggest Thing I learned as a travel blogger

  • Back then, in my travel niche, there was so much information gap. People wanted to go for hikes and treks but there was not much information available on the internet. There were a few blogs but they did not have enough content or engaging to the audience.
  • That’s why I decided to address these pain points and I wrote extensively about each place/trek/ point of attractions while always engaging with my audience. For example, this blog of mine got a lot of engagement because people wanted to know more about this hike until it became popular and finally got banned.
  • You carry a virtual responsibility –  In the same blog above, a lot of females reported of eve-teasing cases on the Nagalapuram trek by locals. A lot of readers either left comments complaining about the eve-teasing on my blog or they wrote to me personally. I took that as a duty to update my blog with recent news and people really appreciated it. The same goes for fire events on Kumara Parvatha trek twice and Kudremukha trek once.
  • Your blog can become a central point of communication sometimes. On this blog, there was a guy named Giridhar and he shared updates about Dudhsagar falls trek when it was banned every week in the comment over multiple weeks.

There are multiple such stories. But I decided to take the route of user satisfaction. Yours depends on you! As a travel blogger, based on my travel blogging experience, I have come up with a list of 10 Best and Free WordPress Plugins for Travel Bloggers.

Yoast SEO:

Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is a free WordPress plugin for improving your site SEO in all the aspects. It takes care of all the technical optimization and let you understand how to write a great blog post by suggesting many aspects of SEO. It suggests different aspects of meta SEO title, meta description, focus keyword, headings, alt text in images, generating the XML sitemap for your site, RSS optimization, breadcrumbs, editing .htaccess file, news SEO, tags and much more features.

In short, it will help you optimize your blog in every possible way for the SEO and help you attract more visitors and appear more in the Google search result so that more and more people can read your articles and come to visit your blog. In short, it will help you optimize your blog in every possible way for the SEO and help you attract more visitors and appear more in the Google search result so that more and more people can read your articles and come to visit your blog.

W3 Total Cache:

W3 Total Cache

Apart from SEO, there are other aspects of a blog which impacts your site’s ranking in Google as well. These technical aspects are browser caching, reducing page load time, minification of post, pages, and RSS feeds etc. W3 Total Cache is an all in one solution for these technical aspects of a blog.

A travel blogger might not be very well aware of these aspects on his travel blog. Thus using a free WordPress plugin like W3 Total Cache takes away all your worries related to the technicality of your blog and you are good to go. A travel blogger might not be very well aware of these aspects on his travel blog. Thus using a free WordPress plugin like W3 Total Cache takes away all your worries related to the technicality of your blog and you are good to go.

Revive old post:

Revive Old Post

Revive old post was formerly known as Tweet old post. Google likes a travel blogger to keep their posts updated. There is also a reason behind it. We write traveling articles on places and it might happen that some of the data in an old post need a modification. This plugin serves a personal reminder to revive your old posts by tweeting them. It also allows you to share your posts on different social media platforms. S

o, sharing an old post is closer to reviving the long lost article which you wrote months ago. You can also set time and number of posts to share to drive more traffic to your blog. This plugin serves a personal reminder to revive your old posts by tweeting them. It also allows you to share your posts on different social media platforms. So, sharing an old post is closer to reviving the long lost article which you wrote months ago. You can also set time and number of posts to share to drive more traffic to your blog.

Smart Layers By AddThis:

Smart Layers By AddThis

Smart Layers by AddThis, this plugin has become incessantly popular among many travel bloggers in the recent times. This plugin as adds a layer of social sharing button on top of your website, thus, not disturbing the design of your site so that your post can be shared on social media and can drive more traffic.

This plugin is available for desktop as well mobile version as well. Besides, social sharing button, it also recommends a related post to the current article in the bottom right to a user which further increases the engagement on your travel blog. This plugin is available for desktop as well mobile version as well. Besides, social sharing button, it also recommends a related post to the current article in the bottom right to a user which further increases the engagement on your travel blog.

CommentLuv:

CommentLuv

Just like Smart Layers by AddThis, CommentLuv has also picked up the attention of the travel bloggers as one of the best and free WordPress Plugins for Travel Bloggers. Earlier, it was harder for the bloggers to leave behind a link on some other travel blog comment section. This problem which impacted a lot of bloggers was solved by this free WordPress plugin.

So now, whenever a blogger leaves a comment on your blog, they have the option of highlighting one of their own blog posts in your comments. It’s almost like tit for tat in Travel blogging. This problem which impacted a lot of bloggers was solved by this free WordPress plugin. So now, whenever a blogger leaves a comment on your blog, they have the option of highlighting one of their own blog posts in your comments. It’s almost like tit for tat in Travel blogging.

Pinterest Pin It Button For Images:

Pinterest Pin It Button For Images

Social media sharing is not limited to Facebook, Google plus, and Twitter, it has come to a different height with Pinterest, Instagram and other photo sharing apps and sites. Travel bloggers are mostly known for vivid images of places around the world. Also, readers like to see a lot of images in a travel blog.

In this situation, you would certainly like a reader to pin your great photos. But, most of the plugins give the ‘Pin It’ option at the bottom of the blog. In this situation, you would certainly like a reader to pin your great photos. But, most of the plugins give the ‘Pin It’ option at the bottom of the blog. Pinterest Pin It Button For Images solves this problem. Whenever a reader hovers over an image, this plugin shows a small ‘Pin It’ button at the left top corner using which a reader can pin images.

Easy FancyBox:

Easy FancyBox

Most of the free WordPress plugins that we discussed above either focus on SEO or on increasing your presence on social media. Easy fancyBox is a kind of plugin which gives a real advantage to a travel blogger as well as photographers who have their sites on WordPress. Using this free plugin, you can create photo gallery of a place where you have traveled to; you can create video gallery. It also has the advantage of a lightbox to show the images with a nice background and titles.

Contact Form by BestWebSoft:

Contact Form by BestWebSoft

Contact Form by BestWebSoft is a free WordPress plugin and one of the most recommended plugins for the travel bloggers. Letting your users and subscribers contact you make a great positive impact on the authenticity of your site. This Contact Form plugin allows a travel blogger to insert a feedback form to a blog post. It is an extremely easy form with no additional settings. It is fully responsive that means it looks good on all the device platforms.

It is easy to set up with different fields with a drag and drop interface. Moreover, you can also receive notifications by email. In short, this plugin opens up a great way for travel writers to communicate privately with your readers. It is an extremely easy form with no additional settings. It is fully responsive that means it looks good on all the device platforms. It is easy to set up with different fields with a drag and drop interface. Moreover, you can also receive notifications by email. In short, this plugin opens up a great way for travel writers to communicate privately with your readers.

Geo MashUp:

Geo MashUp

Using Geo MashUp, you can easily customize a Google map to be embedded on each of your blog posts. You can pin a location, attach KML files etc. A User can click and drag the map to explore further. So, this plugin is mostly for hikers and trekkers who travel to offbeat locations. Using this plugin, they can easily interact better with their readers.

Jetpack by WordPress.com:

Jetpack

Jetpack by WordPress.com is a free and one of the best WordPress plugins for Travel bloggers. Unlike other plugins, this plugin just cannot be described in a single paragraph. Jetpack plugin comes with as many as 36 features for your WordPress blog. These features address different aspects of a blog ranging from These features address different aspects of a blog ranging from appearance to mobile theme, Site stats to social media management, Writing to photos and videos.

Jetpack is one my personal favorite WordPress plugins.It also shows the keywords using which traffic are coming to your site. Daily, Weekly, monthly and yearly analysis of traffic to your blog and many more features. So, if you have this plugin, I am sure, you might not need all of the above-mentioned plugins as some of the important features from the above-mentioned plugins will be there in Jetpack. Thus, it reduced the amount of work and management for your travel blog.

Daily, Weekly, monthly and yearly analysis of traffic to your blog and many more features. So, if you have this plugin, I am sure, you might not need all of the above-mentioned plugins as some of the important features from the above-mentioned plugins will be there in Jetpack. Thus, it reduced the amount of work and management for your travel blog.

WP Smush

WP Smush

No travel blogger should afford to loose this plugin for the obvious reason that image size is large on a travel blog and this plugin reduces and optimizes the size of the images using lossless compression. Lossless compression does not impact the quality of an image whereas lossy compression does. Most of the search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing love it because reducing image size will increase your site speed by a great factor. You can also bulk smush your previous attached images and you can also ‘smush’ images while inserting and attaching them to your blog post.

Akismet

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet Web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. There is no reason not to use this Free WordPress plugin.

Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security checks for the infected sites. As a travel blogger becomes famous, a lot of attacks start coming on the travel blog. Wordfence Security keeps a check over site attack, illegal logging in actions, real-time blocking of known attackers, blocking malicious networks, rate limit, aggressive crawling etc. It also sends you regular mail about the recent attack logs including location, IP address, the country from where the attack was generated. You can also define to block a person after fixed number of times, an attacker fails to enter the password. If you see a lot of attack on your site then you should go for the pro version of this plugin.

WP-DBManager

WP-DBManager

WP-DBManager Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore the database, delete backup database, drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database. In short, this plugin makes sure that all of your precious pictures and articles are kept safe.

10 Best SEO App for Travel Bloggers using MacBook

In this post, we are here to help the Mac users, who are also a traveler, to find the best SEO app for mac. SEO applications are very necessary for online marketing and it gives you an edge over your competitors in this online world. Check our recommendations and choose the best one you want to.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider: My Personal Best SEO App for mac

screaming-frog-seo-spider-for-mac

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key onsite elements to analyze onsite SEO. You can Download it for free or purchase a license for additional advanced features. Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program you can install on your Mac to monitor websites’ links, images, CSS and scripts from an SEO perspective. You can easily view, analyze and filter the information as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface

Human Easy Spinner for Mac

Human Spinner Easy is the software which includes a quality check on the differences between generated texts and also allows export of master spin. A first dictionary is available on the website of the software and you can import many dictionaries in text format (UTF-8 encoding). Also Read: 10 Free Google tools and Sites for Travel Blog SEO The management structure of the articles is done using a tree for unparalleled flexibility. You can manage articles of several thousand characters very easily. The software is designed to help you make money from your work. The best thing about it is you are not required to have “Java” or “.NET and is constantly evolving and is sold without a subscription.

KeywordXP for Mac

keywordxp-for-mac Using KeywordXP you can easily Search for long tail keywords quickly and drill down by double clicking on any item. Now Check the phrases of your interest and click on either Google trends or competition. You can examine the search results to determine the best keyword for your content. With KeywordXP efficiently streamline your research by searching specific data centers, which include Google, Amazon, Bing, eBay, Ask, and YouTube. It helps you to Explore Profitable Niches in Seconds

SEOAuditor for Mac

SEOAuditor is an application for long-term usage because in order to be in the top place of the organic search results you have always to be SEO-aware. SEOAuditor is a great application that allows you to be constantly aware of the SEO) status of any web page. Also Read: Increase Travel blog site speed with Google pageSpeed insights The coolest thing about this SEO App for mac is that it is distributed absolutely for free with no limitations in the number of domains that can be checked. Unlike other products of this type that are able to measure only one specific parameter, SEOAuditor offers its users a combination of parameters that can be defined as the most important. SEOAuditor is the ultimate SEO tool not only for web developers but for everybody who has an online business or just wants to keep an eye on the SEO metrics of his/her sites.

SEO Master Express for Mac

seo-master-express-for-mac SEO MASTER is cost-effective On-Page SEO tuning software that anyone can easily use. It works like a Do-It-Yourself style On-Page tuning tool that analyzes your web page based on the latest search engine algorithms and displays tuning advice for your website. It checks over 50 elements that are related to On-Page SEO factors and provides you detailed recommendations and instructions on how to optimize your pages. SEO MASTER collects reliable statistic data from 100,000 URLs. Also Read: 10 Best and Free WordPress Plugins for Travel Bloggers

SEOggestor for Mac

As the name suggests the SEOggestor can really help you while optimizing a site for search engines. Search Engine Optimization is a process that consists of many different but equally important actions. One of them is the keyword research. Immediately when starting to type in the search bar, you are offered with different suggestions. Optimize for these suggestions and the success will be yours. Save yourself a lot of efforts and time and don’t study all the search engines separately. Simply use the SEOggestor, which will show all you need in seconds. You can try it right now as it is free.

SEOSpyder for Mac

seospyder-seo-app-for-mac With SEOSpyder easily check out how different user agents and search engine bots see your site. This is fully functional software that crawls up to 500 links per crawl. For an unlimited number of link crawls, The custom user-made filters are the best and most useful feature of SEOSpyder. Try to compose a filter, explore the numerous combinations and see for yourself the great analytical potential and capabilities of SEOSpyder.

SEOPingler for Mac

SEOPingler pings the largest search engines with a URL address. It is a Great tool to help engines find new or updated content easier. After pinging an URL, search spiders visits the target page within a few seconds and crawls the page. It is an SEO tool that pings the largest search engines with an URL address. After pinging an URL, search spiders visits the target page within a few seconds and crawls the page. SEOPingler is a great tool for link builders that want to benefit from their newly built links immediately. Also Read: How to use Google Webmaster tools for better SEO of a Travel Blog

iWeb SEO Tool for Mac

iWeb SEO Tool helps you prepare your iWeb based websites for search engines quickly and easily, then publishes directly to your iDisk or FTP server without ever leaving the application. The users can enjoy the same search engine benefits enjoyed by all other websites by optimizing your iWeb site specifically for all major search engines. iWeb SEO Tool can also easily add Google Analytics, or any other analytics code, to your iWeb site. Read The complete Travel Blog SEO Guide.

Google offers a lot of free tools using which your blog can rank better in the Google search, increase the organic search of your site and improve the SEO of your website. These tools can impact your blog in a more positive way than we think. Here are some of the free Google tools and websites using which you can find a lot of facts about your blog which can help you improve the SEO of your blog. Here are some of the free Google tools and websites using which you can find a lot of facts about your blog which can help you improve and impact the SEO of your blog.

Google PageSpeed Insights:

Google PageSpeed Insights

Google PageSpeed Insights is one of the free Google sites where you can check the page speed of your site. In this site, you can enter the URL of one of your blog posts to see page speed of that post. Google will analyze the page speed of your post and based on that, it will give you a result. Using those results, you can improve the performance of your post. Because Page speed of a blog impacts the site performance a lot. The result shows which particular element of your page is slowing down the performance of your site. It could be large image size, javascript, CSS and even browser caching. Here is a link to how to use Google PageSpeed Insights for travel blog SEO.

Serps.com:

Serp.com for keyword ranking

Serps.com is a website which assesses your blog if you are trying to target a particular keyword. These keywords could be related to the niche of your blogging. Once checked for a keyword on this site, Serps.com will show you where you rank with a particular keyword and which website is at number one position. SERP stand for Search Engine Result page and they impact a user’s behaviour a lot in choosing the search results given by the Search Engine.

Google Penalty Checker tool:

Google Penalty Checker tool

Google penalty checker tool checks if your site has been banned or deindexed on Google because of some reasons or not. This site shows three kinds of results if a site has been penalized by the Google. Those results’ terms are given in the image above. Getting penalized impacts and affects a blog ranking in negative way.

Google Disavow link:

Google Disavow link

Google Disavow link is a free tool to remove unhealthy links from your website. However, you should be careful before using this tool. Page rank is one of the criteria to evaluate the authenticity of a website. Sometimes, a site might get links from many unhealthy sites thus, the ranking of a site decreases. Google asks you to remove those links manually by requesting those websites and still you are unable to do so, you should use this tool.

Google Keyword planner:

Google Keyword planner

Google Keyword planner is a free tool to search for keyword ideas, historical statistics of a keyword, keyword search region wise and many more features are there. For example, Trekkerpedia is a niche travel blog over trekking. However, trekking word is less used in United stated. They mostly use Hiking instead of trekking. So, next time if you might want to attract US visitors, you should use this tool. Keywords impacts the whole site and also an individual blog equally.

Open Site Explorer:

open site explorer

Open site explorer is a site tool by moz.com for checking the inbound links to a website. You can check for the backlinks, potentially damaging links to your site, Spam score, Domain authority, page authority, even Page authority, and domain authority of the sites linking with your site and how spammy are they and much more. Because once you start getting a lot of spammy links, that is going to impact your website a lot in terms of SEO. So, one should be cautious with Spammy links.

Search Analytics, Google Webmasters tool:

Search analytics Google webmasters tool

Google Webmasters tool  is one of the must have sites for full analytics of your site. Using Google webmasters tool, you can do the search analytics of your site. The search analytics include your site ranking, impressions, CTR, queries, countries etc. Travel bloggers must learn to use this site to improve SEO of their blog.

Google trends:

Google trends

Google trends let you find out what is trending on the Google on daily, weekly, monthly and even on the yearly basis. On the google trends, you can look out for a trending topic in a particular country based on different categories. You can also explore the topic on Google trends. And, some of the topics are related to your niche area of blogging, you can contribute the same.

Google Analytics:

Google analytics

Google Analytics tracks and reports your website traffic. Using this free tool from Google, you can make a lot of decision about writing a blog post or which blog post needs improvement. You can basically do a lot of things using Google analytics like seeing the demographics of your site visitors, their locations, interests, browser, device type, landing pages, the behaviour of the visitors and many more. This is another one of the ‘Must have’ free Google tools.

Kraken.io:

Kraken.io

Kraken.io is an online tool to reduce the size of the images using a web interface. The basic version of this tool is free for use. I think for a travel blogger who wants to reduce the size of his image, basic version of this tool is sufficient for using. It resizes the image and gives you a lighter image who size is usually lower.

Google Alerts:

Google Alerts

Google alerts let’s you find interesting topic across the internet when it appears. These alerts are sent directly into your inbox. So you need not worry about opening the Google alert site and surfing around. You can define your interest in the Google alert. You can also define the source of the alert that you receive. As a travel blogger, you might want to receive alert notifications about your niche area of blogging. It will really help you keeping your blog updated.

Suggestion Keyword Finder:

Suggestion keyword finder

Suggestion Keyword Finder is a great free online tool from seochat.com. Using this tool, you can find the different level of related keywords to a particular keyword. This tool has three level of Keyword suggestions. As you go to next level, related keyword suggestion gets longer almost matching to the long tail keyword which Google prefers these days. A travel blogger must try this tool for finding the related keywords to improve the SEO of his blog. For a travel blogger, it will help finding the most common keywords related to a place.

Google News:

Google news

Google News is a great product from Google. You can get updated with the latest news about your area of blogging. You can even subscribe to a particular reporting media; you can choose your news location and even you can personalize your news based on some topics. Since I write over trekking in South India, I prefer to get the related news from the forest department or state adventure tourism about my area of travel blogging. Accordingly, it helps me keep my blog updated and maintain the returning visitors.

Bloglovin:

Bloglovin

Although there are many blogging network platforms where you can submit your blog, get approved and even write paid reviews. But, Bloglovin is a unique blogging network platform where you do not do any of the commercial activities yet, you learn a lot of stuff from it. On Bloglovin, you can find the travel bloggers from the same niche. You can exchange links and comments. You can even learn from the top performing blogs as how do they present an article.

The best thing about Bloglovin is: once you start to have followers on your blog, you start getting international readers to your blog. I am sure you must have enjoyed reading about these free sites and tools for travel blogging and I hope, you will make the most out of these Free and Best Google tools and sites which can impact your blog a lot. This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

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