Travel Blogging
 
A great way to keep the people at home in touch and to create a lasting record of your experience
 
Travel writing is a long-established literary format. One of the earliest examples is the writing of Pausanias, around 200 AD, Description of Greece, based on his own observations.

Travelogues, travel journals, travel diaries. The internent has made another variation: Travel blogs. Online we can access thousands of travel reviews and commentaries from travellers who provide candid, up-to-the-moment and on-the-spot reports. They are a great place to unearth unique tips and read about specialist topics. And it's interactive: online readers can communicate with the traveler--ask questions, request more specific information or make a comment. They create a social environment: readers become part of the experience too.

There are an estimated 200 million travel-related blogs on the net, with hundreds more being launched each day. There are blogs detailing city nightlife, food blogs, blogs for backpackers, blogs for business travel or family travel or traveling with pets, blogs critiquing restauants and blogs bloging about how to blog.

One such blog caught my eye while browsing one night. David Lee  began the Go Backpacking blog in January 2007, while working as a Customer Service Manager for a Fortune 50 health insurance company.  His goal was to document the planning involved for my upcoming trip around the world, while learning how to blog effectively.
As he put it, "I soaked up best practices, studied internet marketing strategies, and built relationships with fellow travel bloggers, my social life went down the drain.  I became addicted to blogging, and a Friday night tweaking code in a WordPress theme was suddenly my idea of a good time."

When it came time to travel, he applied everything he learned, and thus built GoBackpacking.com
GoBackpacking.com:
   • Receives 25,000 unique visits per month (Jan 2010).
   • Brings in an average of $1,200 per month (Aug 2009-Jan 2010).
   • Supported by a team of regular and guest contributors.
   • Syndicated on Lonely Planet, Alltop, and World Reviewer.
   • Recognized as one of the “Best Round-the-World Travel
     Blogs” by BootsnAll (Oct 2009)

He has now turned his passion for blogging into a valuable service and community for modern travelers.  He created Travel Blog Success as a way to coach travelers interested in developing successful blogs, whether they measure success in terms of readers or revenue. Travel Blog Sucess - an ECourse and membership site that teaches travelers how to build, optimize and monetize a travel blog. Includes 12 lessons, Blog, and forum.
 

Just think…you’ll be able to blog effectively during your travels, and in the process, lay the foundation for travel opportunities you can’t even imagine!

Check out his system.