Good Travel Blogging: Seven Ways To Spice Up Your Writing

by Abigail King RSS 20 Comments
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Boring, bland writing hurts your blog; really bad writing kills it.

People are busy and, at the last count, there are four point three billion trillion squillion blogs out there. You can use slick design and fancy photos to make yours stand out, but don’t forget the writing. Never forget the writing.

Words have moved people to start revolutions and to fight in wars. They’ve even convinced people to buy tedious things like travel insurance.

Words are powerful – or Continue Reading

Straying off topic – Should Travel Bloggers do it?

by Alastair McKenzie RSS 17 Comments
Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London

We all recognise that bloggers are their own brands. Very often it is a blogger’s personality that sets their blog apart from the rest. So to what extent should they display that personality in all its diversity? In short, if you are a travel blogger, should you always and only write about travel?

If you haven’t run across him before, Todd Defren (@TDefren) is one of the ‘big beasts’ in social media marketing. This week on his blog, Continue Reading