For SEO-Minded Travel Bloggers

I enjoy reading Adirondack Base Camp. It’s got to be one of my favorite travel blogs! Since I get a lot of Entrecards travel bloggers passing through New York Traveler.net, I thought you all might be interested in checking out a great post by TourPro, about SEO Juice for travel bloggers. I’ve been seeing a lot of traffic through Google searches. I wish I knew what I was doing right, lol! I think I may have this subconscious ability to offer “linkbait,” which may attribute all the funky search words that lead here. I’ll have to post on that sometime.

Anyway, check out the post of you are interested in a few quick pointers on improving your presence in the online travel community.

New York Traveler Blog Migration

I have two travel blogs. One is a blogspot blog, called New York Traveler. I started it up almost two years ago, to use a personal journal and as an entertaining travelogue for readers who love to read about travel experiences as much as I. I have been surprised at its success, for something that started out as a little personal journal. Perhaps this is the very reason why it has become successful, because people hunger for that personal touch, whether it be about travel or cooking or family life.

I was unprepared for the success of New York Traveler. I didn’t know much about web design or website-building then. Honestly, I am still puzzled about SEO and A-Lists and other marketing. I guess my ignorance is self-inflicted; I’ve stated before that I’m just a writer, and I love to visit new places and learn history. Marketing, sales, promotion, etc just aren’t my cup of tea. I’d love to make a living doing what I love to do (who wouldn’t?), so I’ve been very open to promotion and advertising on my blog. It would be wonderful if I could fund my own travels (and car expenses) from my own blog. Perhaps this is where I’m going!

In hopes of such advancement, I started up this blog, New York Traveler.net, on my own domain. It’s been another learning experience for me, hosting my own blog! But as I add more content, the visitors flock in to read it.

I’m not happy sharing travel content between two travel blogs. I keep up the blogspot blog because it’s very well-established, has been bringing in some income from advertisers, and a lot of people link to me there. I’d hate to pull out that blog and leave all these empty links. I’d never do it.

However, I desire to build up this blog– which is my very own– more. If you have been a reader of the New York Traveler blogs, you’ve noticed that I post all my new travel content here. I do continue to build the blogspot blog, but my focus is changing. I think I am going to develop my own blog more.

I am going to be slowly migrating my main travel content from the old blogspot blog over to this one. This will centralize the New York Traveler and bring organization to content here. I will never delete the New York Traveler blogspot blog, have no fear. I will continue to update it with family and travel issues about New York State. But I am changing my focus– I will use the New York Traveler blogspot blog to supplement my travel posts that I will be posting here on this blog.

I am also pleased to announce that I will be soon building some new features to this new blog that will serve to enrich travelers who desire to know more about New York. I can’t divulge all my secrets, but I am working very hard to make New York Traveler.net THE place to be when you want to know everything about traveling in New York.

I ask my regular readers to please consider changing their bookmarks from newyorktraveler.blogspot.com to newyorktraveler.net. I also ask you to continue to support me in my new ventures! I’ll be developing areas where people can submit their advice, opinions, memories, and comments. Travel is a community effort. I’m excited about these developments and ask you to please be patient while I undergo some construction!

Thanks for reading and thanks for making New York Traveler so much fun to create!