Hey everyone I am going to Vietnam in February, so I'm blogging about it (naturally). How can I bring traffic to a travel site? I'm out of free adwords credit, and tomorrow I will receive pretty close to 0 visitors (its new). Other than link exchange, commenting, and directories, what else can you suggest? Free things will definitely be preferred. All cash is going to flights Jack
do people looking for information about travel really come from social bookmarking sites? I'm assuming you mean delicious, stumbleupon, etc..
I would try and aim for free social bookmarking sites maby set up a group on myspace "vietnam holiday" have a few links to your site...add randoms... just an idea.......
Take plenty of very good photos and than place some of them on flickr + tip other bloggers that write about travelling. If the photos are good enough you will probably receive some link love. Also review the hotel you are going to stay in and any other services that you might use + tip other bloggers about this too, everyone likes to read good reviews if they are useful.
Well I recently wrote an article on the subject of building traffic and links for free. let paraphrase a piece of that article that applies here: 'I would probably start by signing up with a free blog service like blogger and start blogging about your main site. This will give you some backlinks for free since every time that you blog a new page is created which will link to your principal dot com site. But there are many more free blog services besides blogger that you can do this with, such as blogeasy, blogtiger and http://www.blogurple.com , just to name a few. And the best part is, all these free blog hosts are on different servers, which seems to be important to the engines.............. Likewise, you can also sign up with a free website hosting service such as webspawner and create similiar content pages that point to your site in much the same way as the blogging method. Again, you just sign up for a free account, logging and upload your pages that have your articles, and embed your links within the content. It is best if you can upload several pages so as to create a sort of a themed 'mini-site'. If you run out of your own articles you can obtain fresh ones based on your sites subject matter from the free article directories.'
Write interesting blog posts, is an easy way. Submit to social bookmakring sites. Submit your site to this rss directories: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
Those sound like really good ideas, thanks to everyone who helped me out. It is hard to attract a readership before I've left, if you know what I mean? People aren't too interested in my planning for the trip.. I got a lot of people from adwords who were perfectly targeted, and looked at every page on the blog. They cost about $0.40 each though