Business of Travel Blogging

Comment

Comment by Janice Temple Robinson on March 18, 2010 at 7:15am

Ben I am new to this. Please explain img src alt tag. What is this? How do you suggest that an image be tagged?

Comment by Katlin Smith on March 13, 2010 at 6:38pm

It's nice to get some recognition! www.outside.in Bloggers We Love column at http://blog.outside.in/2010/03/09/bloggers-we-love-katlin-smith-3/ Now if I could just my numbers up!

Comment by Ben Hoffman on March 9, 2010 at 7:34pm

Denise was your last comment in reply to mine?

For Business Travel Guru my visitor numbers are a fair bit higher than this, I would be upset if I did not see this number in a day.

I think this is mainly due to the age for my domain, the number of articles I have and some of the unique articles/posts I have on this site, which rank very well in Google.

In addition I get great traffic from Google image search for pictures I have on my site/s for some very competitive keywords which I would not be able to rank in the regular Google search results. How is the done? Simply ensure you set put your keyword and description of image in every img src alt tag for every photo you post on your stie. Other great traffic sources are social media sites(Twitter/Facebook, etc) I have other techniques up my sleeve too

As examples check in Google how I rank for the below search terms: Below articles Rank high in Google for their retrospective keyword/phrase in both Regular Google search and Google Image search:

Emirates A380 Business Class Flight Review
Qantas A380 Flight Review Premium Economy

As for Asia Travel Magazine This is about correct number of visitors I see per month. But unfortunately I have not been able to commit as much time to this site (compared to my other site) to write posts/articles about the places/experiences have had in Asia. But I am determined to make more of a mark on this site this year, with more features, destination guides and hotel reviews.

Regards
Ben

Comment by Denise Pulis on March 9, 2010 at 3:50pm

I read through your blogs... 5000 views a month??? How do you manage to get so much traffic to your website???

Comment by Ben Hoffman on March 9, 2010 at 3:01pm

Maria G - Hang in there! it does take a while to establish your blog and start to get decent visitors, there are several factors which will affect the number of visitors you site/blog will get including the Travel Niche you are in the age of your domain and what I consider to be the most important factor the number of articles/posts you have on your site. Just think If your blog is new and only has say 10 posts and those 10 posts has an average of 1-2 visitors per day that's 900 visitors per month. Now is a year or two time and you have 200 articles/posts getting an average of 5 visitors per day that's 30,000 visitors per month.

When you start seeing this traffic the sky is the limit and you should be earning fairly good advertising revenue (Google Adsense, etc) if you decide to take that path.

Regards
Ben aka the Business Travel Guru

Business Travel Guru | Asia Travel Magazine

Comment by BeersandBeans on February 17, 2010 at 11:18am

Hmm... That's interesting. I actually used facebook ads for my photography business and it brought a ton of people in but they never really went any farther than that. Did you just get page views or did you actually get new subscribers?

Comment by Chad Schlotterback on February 16, 2010 at 12:04am

Hello fellow bloggers. I just paid $50 for a Facebook ad campain. It worked, it drug in the users it said it would. In my case - $7 dollars per day spent, had to spend 80 cents to get the ads clicked. (went less than that, didn't work very well)

Just thought I'd share, blog on...

Chad

http://vacationbarefoot.blogspot.com

Comment by Paul Rakov on February 9, 2010 at 3:08pm

Call for Speakers:
The Ulster County Development Corporation and Ulster County Tourism offices will co-host a "Tourism as Economic Development" (working title) conference on May 4, 2010 in Kingston, NY.

One topic will be the influence of bloggers on consumer travel decisions and, how to get positive blog coverage. Topic can be adjusted to speakers specific area of travel expertise.

We are looking for either one speaker to address this issue for 20 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A or, a panel discussion for 45 minutes. The event is likely to draw 100-200 tourism business professionals from the Hudson Valley region of NY State.

The event acts as a fundraiser for UCDC so, limited funds are available for speaker compensation. However, hotel accommodations and meals will be covered.

If interested, please contact:

Paul Rakov
Director, Business Development and Marketing
Ulster County Development Corporation
prakov@ulsterny.com
845 338 8840 x212

Comment by Gary Diedrichs on February 8, 2010 at 9:16am

Hey, all -- Looks like I finally found the right place. Like you, we're working to build traffic and "monetize" (ugly word, beautiful concept). Thanks in advance to you for sharing the journey, and I look forward to our conversations along the way. Greenward, Gary at Green Traveler Guides.

Comment by GGBerry.com on February 8, 2010 at 8:30am

Take less than 1 minute to complete an easy only survey based on
Australia feature for a chance to win US$5,000 travel voucher to be
used on a trip to Australia!!

Read Australia feature: http://www.australia.com/onlyinoz/
Do the survey: http://www.travelandleisuresea.com/australia/

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• …
• 17
• Next ›
• Page