Review: Travel Blog Success

Posted: February 1st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: web | 5 Comments »

There was no shortage of decisions to be made when I decided to make my lifestyle change to become a professional hang-about. Most of those decisions answered themselves or were handled quietly. However, my decision on whether or not to do a travel blog was rather drawn out, and also unusually public. From that discussion on BootsnAll, I came to the point of liking the blog idea as a personal trip record and kind of fun thing to do. I also noticed that a strong travel blog was used by everyone that was turning travel writing into a career of sorts. Whether that’s blogging or freelance writing, or whatever. It was a cool idea to have a strong, successful travel blog, but slaving over search engine optimizations (SEO) and networking sounded like something I wanted no part of. I wasn’t making travel my life focus so that I could grind through a Google Analytics menu all friggin’ day.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to preview the Travel Blog Success (TBS) site. I can readily say that I learned quite a bit about travel blogging there. It’s made starting this blog much easier and quite a bit more rewarding. TBS is a good deal for a certain type of travel blogger. And possibly not as much for others. Instead of just generally recommending the site to everyone I would like to try and clarify who will really get the most benefit.

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Week Sauce: Adios Montréal

Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: week sauce | 4 Comments »

Well kids, after 13 months in Montréal, I fly out on Tuesday. The apartment is almost completely empty, and everything I own (now) is crammed into my backpack. In a day and a half I’ll be officially, and intentionally, homeless. I enjoy how my achievements sound quite a bit like failures; It keeps my naysayers on their toes.

I summed up what I know of my plan previously, and I think that’s still accurate so far. From here I’m off for a night in Vancouver, then over to Victoria for the rest of February. I can hardly wait! I’m also going to make a point of getting down to good old Seattle while I’m in the area. The big unknown is what group I’ll be able to sign up with in order to volunteer in Haiti. I guess we’ll see how it all plays out.

As usual this week’s summary is a compilation of good articles from around the web, plus whatever other random crap I have on hand.

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