How to make money with your travel blog

How to make money with your travel blog

It’s everyone’s dream: travel the world and get paid to do it. But not everyone can make their travel blog profitable! In an increasingly competitive travel blog world, there are a few handy tips and pieces of advice to help you on your way to a self-sustaining, professional and successful travel blog. 

even turning posts into longer pieces e.g., “A Complete Guide To Your Trip to India” or “300 Things To Do In Barcelona”. This can earn you money if you sell the book at a price, as well as driving traffic to your blog and providing backlinks.

Plus, you can use the expertise you have built up on your blog to make money by working as a freelancer for other brands. Promote your site by writing travel features for other sites or media outlets, guest blog spots, or by contributing your original photos and videos for a fee. You can also offer courses in travel blogging, guided tours, and more.

7. Social media, social media, social media

Being smart about your social media presence and promotion is essential to making money from your blog. Posting some of the photos from your blog to your Instagram is a great way to boost engagement and drive traffic to the blog. Plus, a higher follower count will make it easier for you to start branching out into sponsored content and brand ambassadorship. This will also put you on track to becoming a fully-fledged social media influencer!

Be patient – you won’t get rich overnight!

Building up an audience takes time, as well as tweaking your blog’s contents and socials to get the maximum reach possible. There are so many different avenues to explore when it comes to making money from your travel blog, though, so keep working and thinking outside the box and you can turn it into a revenue source eventually.

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