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Are you wondering how to start a personal travel blog? You’ve been traveling for some time, or maybe you’re just about to leave on your first trip. Perhaps your friends or family want to follow your journey, or you want to know how to start a travel blog and make money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, a travel blogger salary can be six figures a year! Getting to this level is challenging, but it\u2019s a form of <\/span>remote work writing<\/span><\/a> – a way how to make money while traveling.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of whether you want to make money from a travel website, or you want to share your experiences – it’s not too late in 2019 to start a travel blog. Travel blogging is a crowded space, but here are more opportunities for travel blog success and income now than ever before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You don’t need to take a course to get started, although it can help save time. Keep reading for a quick guide on how to start a travel blog with WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Start a Travel Blog Step 1: Choose Your Blog Name’s and Niche<\/span><\/h2>\n

The first step in this tutorial on how to start a travel blog isn’t writing, setting up the website, or even thinking of names. It’s deciding on your target audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Where do they live? What do they do for work? How old are they? Why would they be reading your blog? Create a few personas of different people you expect to be reading your blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the travel blogging industry is so crowded, it helps to pick a niche or find some way to differentiate yourself. Will you write about budget travel? Maybe you travel with only a carry-on bag. Do your trips center around a theme? Pick something that helps you stand out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Be careful. You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself, or else your travel blog success ends as your life changes. Imagine you called your blog, “Twenty-somethings Travel.” What happens when you turn thirty?<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that you have an idea of your blog’s theme and target audience write down a few names that stand out. Keep it as professional (or unprofessional) as you like, but don’t forget that you might want to sell this blog someday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Use a website like Namecheap to make sure the domain is available. Check that the name is available on all social media platforms you plan to use (Pinterest and Instagram are the most popular for the travel niche).<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Start a Travel Blog Step 2: Find a Website Host and Buy Your Domain<\/span><\/h2>\n

You need a website host, which stores your website’s files and makes them available on the Internet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you wondering how to start a travel blog for free? You can get hosting for free from WordPress.com – but your options for customizing your site are limited. To make your travel blog more professional, you’ll eventually need to pay for a more powerful web host when your blog gets more traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bluehost, HostGator, and DreamHost are all popular low-budget web hosts. Their lowest-tier starter plans are adequate for most blogs. If you have the money to spend and expect lots of traffic quickly, you might want to consider better hosts such as SiteGround.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have any technical skills? You can even self-host your site for cheap with a VPS on Digital Ocean or Vultr. You’ll need to be able to use an SSH command line, but a single lowest-tier server can run several websites (and you get full control).<\/span><\/p>\n

Some hosts offer deals on your website’s domain name, but it’s often better to buy them through a third-party like NameCheap or Google Domains. Use a .com domain, since it’s the only one people will remember. Keep it under four or five words, and don’t use dashes.<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Start a Travel Blog Step 3: Install WordPress<\/span><\/h2>\n

WordPress is a blogging platform (built on PHP) that powers around 30% of websites on the Internet. Since its release in 2003, it’s been a favorite among bloggers for years for its customizability, ease of use, and plugins – and it’s free!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Installing WordPress on most web hosts is a simple one-click process. Some hosts may charge you more to host a WordPress web, so keep this in mind when you’re looking at pricing plans. If you opt to self-host a website on your server (like Digital Ocean), you can run a command from the command line to create your website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you’ve installed WordPress, it’s time to install some essential plugins. Plugins provide useful features not available in the default WordPress platform. You’ll probably want the following plugins:<\/span><\/p>\n