5 Ways To Make Money From Travel Blogging

What are the ways to make money from travel blogging?

If you've been pondering, ‘what are the ways to make money from travel blogging?', then this article may just shed some light. To you, blogging may have always been a way to chronicle your travels for friends and family. But make money? That’s a nut you’ve never been able to crack. Having one’s site pay one’s way around the world is the dream for amateur travel bloggers.

Want to go pro and go from amateur travel blogger to digital nomad? In today’s article, we’ll share several ways you can monetize your travel blog.

So load up your digital nomad backpack and let’s get started.

1. Sponsored posts

Has your site been up on the net for a year or longer? If so, it may be attractive to those who offer sponsored posts. Years ago, SEO software company Moz came up with two statistics – domain authority (DA) and page authority (PA). The first measures the likelihood a website is to rank high on a SERP (search engine results page). The second measures the likelihood a specific page will rank in the SERPs.

Over time, your website will have garnered external links from other sites, as well as internal links. Because of this, you’ll have a DA/PA score that will allow marketers to rank strongly for keywords using your site.

By selling space for articles with targeted links, you can easily make your first dollars online in-between travel trips. Once you can make this passive, you will have figured out how to make money hiking.

2. Become an Instagram Influencer

Do you have a respectable following on your blog? If so, most will follow you over to social media channels like Instagram. With engaged followers, photo composition skills, and compelling content, you too can become an Instagram influencer.

Once travel brands recognize you as someone with clout, they may ask you to represent their product. By leveraging your ability to tell a story, their brand will enjoy increased sales, and you’ll get paid for your social media influencing.

3. Go on press trips

Not into Instagram, but have a site with decent monthly traffic? Tourism boards, resorts, and other travel brands might invite you to attend a press trip. Some entities (like hotels) may only comp you free use of their product. Increasingly, however, more press trips are becoming paid affairs.

According to travel blog Goats On The Road, brands offer stipends ranging between $500-$7,000 – and beyond. However, if you have less than 30,000 impressions per month, be happy to have your travel expenses covered.

4. Do affiliate marketing

Tour agencies are continually looking for new customers. Every day, new travel gadgets or digital nomad tools debut that desperately need exposure. Affiliate marketing (a form of digital marketing) can solve these problems while making you bundles of money in the process.

Reach out to these providers and set up an affiliate account. By promoting their product or service on your site, you’ll get a coded link that will credit you for any sales.

Let’s say you’re promoting Lifestraws. If you get a 50% commission on a $20 sale and you sell 50 per month, that’s $500/month revenue. Add more affiliate links, and you can earn a respectable income over time.

Check out affiliate marketing methods in this guide on how to create a niche website.

5. Sell products

As the years go by and you gain followers, your status as an expert will grow. Use this clout to create and sell a product. E-guides are common in the travel blogosphere – Nomadic Matt sold How To Travel The World On $50 Per Day online before he signed his first book deal.

E-books aren’t the only thing you can sell. T-shirts, digital art selling, blogger-led tours, courses and even low content books created using the BookBolt software are just a few of the paid offerings travel bloggers offer their followers.

Not sure how to get started? Check out these tips on how to become a travel blogger.

In this modern age, it is getting easier to create products with the help of AI Tools, that automate a lot of the creation process for your potential products.

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