How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog: Review
I just had an opportunity to read Nomadic Matt’s (Mathew Kepnes) ebook, “How to Make Money With Your Travel Blog.” I think most readers of JetSetCitizen are looking for ways to earn an income to fund their travels, and this book has the answers. Nomadic Matt currently makes more than $3000 per month from his travel websites and he earns this income while roaming the world.
Matt is not promising some get rich quick scheme, he acknowledges that “making money online takes time.” If you are willing to put in the effort and have the perseverance to keep working on your sites, this ebook is a good action plan covering everything you need to know.
Matt’s ebook is a step-by-step list of actions you must take to earn money online. What I like best is that it is very concise and gets to the point quickly. The steps you must take are clearly and succinctly stated, with no superfluous verbiage. It explains the exact websites, techniques and SEO that bring the most traffic and income. The ebook is travel focused, but it could really be used for any online niche.
How to Make Money With Your Travel Blog: Sections
1. Setting up a blog – This is a beginners guide to help you decide what to focus on with your websites and gets you thinking about ways to maximize your earning potential.
2. Creating Your Blog - Matt recommends the commonly used WordPress bloggging platform and he gives a quick overview of getting your blog set up and optimized for search engines.
3. Increasing Traffic - This section is about leveraging social media and other community websites to bring you more traffic, thereby helping you earn more money. He covers the essentials of effectively using StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, comments and forums to get more visitors.
4. Search Engine Optimization Tips - Matt covers the key steps in gettting traffic from search engines.
5. Monetization Tips - This section talks about the four main ways to monetize your website: Adsense, text links sales, affiliate advertising, and private ad sales.
6. Putting it All Together – This is a final summary telling you what to focus on for the first couple months of building your websites and what results you can expect.
If you are already making thousands of dollars per month online than you will already know much of this content. Experts probably won’t learn too many new tricks. For the rest of us, this is a great, comprehensive resource to making money from websites. As I said before, it has a travel title but it really can be used for any online business. At only $27, it is a great value.
Buy “How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog” NOW!
Links
Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site
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John – funny, I just reread this book last week. I’m always wary of e-books that teach you how to make money (after all, the market’s pretty saturated), but Matt manages to sneak in some helpful tidbits here and there. If I didn’t own it already I’d buy it right here!
Alan´s last blog ..From Syria to Lebanon (and Back) in $70
Matt has made a nice jump in earnings. $3000 a month from travel websites is pretty impressive, or maybe the ebook sales are doing well.
Mike in Bali´s last blog ..Update on my article writing experiment
I bought Matts book a couple of months ago when I first started blogging in earnest. It helped us a lot especially as new travel bloggers. We followed a lot of Matt’s advice and have made great strides quickly. I think that he chopped off 6 months worth of work and we are that much farther ahead.
Dave and Deb´s last blog ..How to Take care of Your Finances for Travel
I don’t travel a lot so I can’t apply this, but what’s interesting is that it confirms that you can make money doing what you love, and that’s the most important thing.
Oscar – freestyle mind´s last blog ..Habit #4 – Planning
Hey John
It seems to me that travel websites are a good source of income.
Of course you have to be passionate about the topic though, because you need to create many many pages of good content, but of course that can be outsourced.
I’m getting good ideas from your interviews with travellers and internet marketers!
Thanks a mill
Diggy – Upgradereality.com´s last blog ..YES!
Do you know affiliate program for travel blog. I interesting to do the affiliate program like you said
Kirstin@bali accommodation´s last blog ..Villa Senang / 3 Bedroom Deluxe
‘I’ve just had an opportunity…” is how your post starts. To me that suggests you personally didn’t actually pay for Matt’s ebook?
Did you?
Is it possible to prosper by starting your travel blogs while still at home? Many, many people probably don’t have an opportunity to earn any money with travel blogs unless they’re already traveling, but you need money and free time to travel …
Perpetual challenge, that.