What is a Travel Blogger

 Sadly, the Oxford English Dictionary is a little light on the description as to what a travel blogger is. However, if we break it down into its constituent parts, it’s someone who has a “blog”, or online journal, largely focused on sharing the story of their travels.

Being a professional travel blogger in my mind means two things. One, it means this is something that generates an income. Two, it means that you are in this for the long term, Qantas Points Credit Card and can be expected to deliver a professional level of service to both your readers and any clients that you might have.

There are all sorts of ways to generate an income, and there are hugely varying opinions as to what a travel blogger *is*, varying from a journalism approach, through to writing more personal stories Qantas Cards and tales.

In my mind, if you have your own website that you regularly update with articles about travel, then you have a travel blog. If it’s generating you an income, and you hold yourself to defined standards of conduct and ethical behaviour, then you are a professional travel blogger. Beyond that, we move into semantics, and before we know it we’ll be arguing about the difference between a traveller and tourist.

how to become a travel blogger

Let’s not do that, and instead look at my detailed guide to how to become a travel blogger.

 

How to Become a Travel Blogger

Here are some tips on becoming a travel blogger, based on my years actually doing it.

 

1. Find your passion

If you’re going to be doing something that isn’t going to be generating a tremendous return for at least the first year or two then you need to be doing something that you enjoy.

I’m going to be honest, most blogs on the internet don’t survive very long, with the average life of a blog being something silly like a week, and one post. Travel blogs are no different, and making a full time living from a travel blog can take a long time.

This is often because people aren’t writing about what they are passionate about. If you’re passionate about something, you will find the time to do it, whatever your schedule, and your passion will come across in the content you create, meaning it will be engaging and interesting to your potential audience.

Travel blogging has a whole range of niches, from food, to budget, to luxury, to adventure, to family and more. We focus on independent travel and photography on this site, because that’s where our passion lies. Find something you love doing, that you would keep doing even for zero reward, and build your blog around that.

One more reality check – if you don’t like travel, writing, photography, self-management, the regular feeling that no-one cares, as well as hard work for little immediate reward, then travel blogging might not be for you. Starting out as a travel blogger can be tough, with new blogs popping up every day, and there is no such thing as overnight success.

 

2. Pick your Blog Name

Picking your blog name is a key part of setting yourself up, and you want to make sure you get it right from the beginning.

I will freely admit that when I set this blog up in 2010, I did not spend a lot of time on this – the name just popped into my head, it was available, and off I went without a care in the world.

Jess on the other hand spent at least a week thinking about her blog name and brand when she started Independent Travel Cats in 2013.

I would definitely advise taking Jess’s approach rather than mine!

The important things to consider are for the name to match your brand and goals, so it’s instantly clear from your site name what your blog is about. You also want to try to stand out from the crowd, and avoid anything that will age badly, Qantas Cards like having a year, date or other number in the name of your blog.

Having a memorable name that people won’t forget will help, and I’d also advise against any kind of hyphenated name as people nearly always forget that there’s a hyphen and will type it in wrong.

It’s also important to make sure that the name you choose is both available, and will fit on social media. For example, Finding the Universe is 18 characters, which is longer than the 15 character limit on Twitter. So you’ll either want to pick a name that’s easy to abbreviate, or will fit on all the networks you want to use!

You can check if your preferred name is available on all the social media networks using this tool.

 

3. Set up Your Blog

Once you have picked your domain name, you’re going to want to actually set up your blog!

There are a number of different options for doing this, from using a free platform through to going what is known as “self-hosted”.

Our advice is to start down the self-hosted route straight away, using the most popular blogging platform in the world – WordPress.

Self hosted means that rather than having your blog sitting somewhere like yourblogname.blogger.com, with a company like Google in charge of the backend of your site, Qantas Rewards Credit Card you have it sitting on a server somewhere with the name yourblogname.com, and you have control over the site.

Whilst this might sound complicated and difficult, there are lots of companies out there who will help you do everything from registering your domain to getting your site up and running. These are also usually great value for money as you start out.

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