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Make money from travel websites by Mike Henry

Travel and making money – the two activities may seem mutually exclusive, but
I would like to show you how you can make money from tourism and travel
using the internet.

This guide is not a ‘get rich scheme’. At worst, you could make some money to help fund your travel or provide an additional stream of income, at best it could lead to becoming a full-time business where you can work and travel at your leisure.

More people are turning to the internet to both research travel destinations and
make online bookings. You can profit from both. Guidebooks are often written
by one person as they travel around a city or country. By the time the text is
written up, edited and published, it can be more than a year before it is
published. Places can change very quickly in a year.

When people think normally of careers which allow them to travel full-time, most
people think of travel writing or travel photography. Travel writers will be the
first to admit, that their profession does not pay much. I am going to guide you
through how you can make money with travel by using the internet. Not just
one time payments like what you would get if you submitted an article to a travel
magazine, but ongoing passive income, even when you have stopped
traveling.

I am going to show you how I was able to build a city travel and tourist guide,
which now generates me enough money to live off full-time.

If you are interested in travel and making money, this ebook is for you.

Table of Contents
Travel the world making money from the Internet............................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................4
My story............................................................................................................6
Why create a travel based site.........................................................................7
Instant price comparison................................................................................10
Targeted traffic...............................................................................................10
Evergreen Content.........................................................................................12
Getting Started...............................................................................................13
Computer .......................................................................................................13
Digital camera.................................................................................................13
Basic setup costs............................................................................................14
Sound recording.............................................................................................14
Basic computing skills.....................................................................................15
Writing ability..................................................................................................15
Eye for detail...................................................................................................16
Organizational skills........................................................................................16
Defining your target market............................................................................16
Registering a domain......................................................................................17
Hosting...........................................................................................................19
Reliability........................................................................................................19
Support...........................................................................................................19
Location..........................................................................................................20
Price................................................................................................................20
Services..........................................................................................................20
Windows/Unix based......................................................................................20
Structuring your site.......................................................................................22
Content Management Systems......................................................................22

Blogs...............................................................................................................23
Writing an ebook.............................................................................................23
Creating Content.............................................................................................25
Hiring Writers...................................................................................................25
User generated content..................................................................................25
Public Domain..................................................................................................27
Interviews.......................................................................................................27
Free articles....................................................................................................28
Promoting your website..................................................................................29
Traffic – getting visitors to your website.........................................................29
Getting your site indexed................................................................................30
It’s all about links............................................................................................30
Get to top of the search engines with anchor text..........................................32
Getting initial visitors to your website.............................................................32
Forums............................................................................................................33
Social networking sites...................................................................................33
Blog Carnvials.................................................................................................34
Traffic from Search Engines.............................................................................34
Monetizing your website.................................................................................37
Pay per click advertising..................................................................................37
Affiliate programs............................................................................................39
Affiliate Networks............................................................................................41
Selling links.....................................................................................................41
Directly selling advertising..............................................................................42
Selling to Sell..................................................................................................42
Interviews......................................................................................................45
Interview with owner of Durant Imboden Europe for Visitors.........................45
Resources and Further Reading......................................................................50
Webmaster forums.........................................................................................50
Press Releases...............................................................................................50
Professional blogging.....................................................................................50
Photography...................................................................................................50