Comments on: How to be a Travel Blogger

By: Josie Kelsh

Josie Kelsh — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 06:57:52 +0000

In reply to Jonno. Thanks Jonno. I wrote that almost three years ago now. I'm a little better at knowing what to do now, although somedays I still have all those smae thoughts :-)

By: Jonno

Jonno — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:45:07 +0000

It’s a steep learning curve Josie and your blog looks great so far. As long as you enjoy writing and enjoy investigating all of the technical stuff then you’ll be fine. We’ve been doing our blog for over 4 years now and so much of it still mystifies us (especially SEO). Try not to get too bogged down with the stats though, just enjoy it.

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:55:32 +0000

In reply to Brooke of Passport Couture. Oh, it's still not easy lol. Thanks Brooke for your comment.

By: Brooke of Passport Couture

Brooke of Passport Couture — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:26:44 +0000

It’s interesting to read what you thought about blogging starting up a couple of years ago. I’d be intrigued to hear what you think of blogging now. I also admire you for being honest about your trials and tribulations starting a website and promoting your blog. It’s not as easy as it sounds!

By: Josie

Josie — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:47:40 +0000

In reply to Constance.

Thanks Constance 🙂 One year later I feel the same – but in a different way. I have learnt so much over my first year, it’s crazy to think about it all really. But have you heard that saying something like “the more you know the more you realise you have so much more to learn”? That’s how I feel now. I am still enjoying blogging, and I am working hard to learn as much as I can. It’s still a challenge every day to get readers, but mostly now it’s not because I don’t know how, it’s because I choose to write in a way that I enjoy rather than in a way that I know will get me more readers from Google. That will probably change a little in the future when I am not travelling long term.

By: Constance

Constance — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 15:23:43 +0000

Loved your post! I am a little over 2 months in with my blog and this is exactly how I feel, still. I’d love some updates on how things are going with your blog, do you still feel the same way 1yr later about all these things? Thank you for sharing!

By: Josie

Josie — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:48:25 +0000

In reply to Sara Essop. Thanks Sara. It's more than six month down the track down, and sometimes I am just as clueless!

By: Sara Essop

Sara Essop — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:26:38 +0000

Haha. I love your post and sense of humour. And I agree, these things are not as easy as Google would have us believe.

By: Josie

Josie — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:29:07 +0000

In reply to Alison.

When I first started thinking about ways to support my travel lifestyle Caz was one of the first people I came across online doing this. Her stuff is inspirational! I definitely need to go back and watch that again!

It’s a bit of a long story, but I got the Paradise Pack to help out my hubby with his site, but wasn’t sure I was going to do a blog at that point. At the time I was just looking at it all with his site in mind and just for interest. Now I have this, I need to go back and revisit. I finish up at my 9-5 job Friday, then I will have a lot more time to figure this out.
In between tearing my hair out, I’m having fun. Can’t wait to get on the road in April and have some new exciting things to write about!

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 00:19:41 +0000

In reply to Josie.

Oh, I laughed so hard. It gets hard remembering what you have going where; like, I started with mailchimp, for example, then went to sumome, and then instagram widgets are a pain to get a good one and now I feel like my whole plugin page is just a mess and I avoid looking at it.

But jetpack; I think I have that. I’ll have to have a look into it.

The Paradise Pack was great. If you haven’t already, look into the thing by Caz from ytravel. Her webinar was really helpful. And the EBA bloggers course is an absolute heaven sent. That answered a lot of questions that I had and really helped me get into the idea of editorial calendars and the like.