What to do with travel articles?

As I sit in my house in Central Illinois, I cant help but reflect back on 16 months of travelling and studying I just completed in Europe. My travels took me to Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Greece, Netherlands, and all over the UK including Manchester (where I lived for 10 months), London, Edinburg and the Fife coast in Scotland, Dublin in Ireland, Snowden and the coast of Wales and all sorts of hiking/walking trips to nearby cities and hills outside of Manchester.

I'm thinking about writing a series of articles about these travels, 500 words or so each on all sorts of topics because I see alot of travel article interest on this forum. I am a good writer (I just completed my Masters Degree) and articles will have an interesting spin to them, I'm a musician and music brought me to most of those places.

So...what should I do with these articles? Submit them to article sites and try to get some backlinks? I've heard all about how these articles sites can get your link all over the net. Also to be honest, I've flipped through the "travel" categories in some of the article sites and I can do way better. Or, should I publish them as a blog and try to get some traffic to it?

All of the above? Any more ideas I haven't thought of?

 

The article sites are good but you also might want to google for destination sites about each place and check them out. Those that look established and have good ranking and PR are worth contacting directly - especially if you have a sample of your writing. Many site owners would love unique well written content and many pay for the same. Even if you are not offered payment the resulting credits and links back are worth gold from respected sites.

Blog content tends to be different anyway so there is no reason why you cannot use your experiences on a blog too.

 

You could do a combo of things.

1. You could set up your blog and fill it with your articles.
2. Take some of your articles (perhaps altered slightly) and submit them to article distribution websites.
3. Write for other websites you respect in exchange for whatever.

First, you should decide what your main goal is. Is it to just entertain yourself and others? Are you selling some travel oriented product or service? Are you trying to make a little money with adsense while exploring your creative horizons?

 

Also look at the different aspects of your travel. If you can write about restaurants, recipes or traditional food of one country, write about that and offer it to foodie sites (like mine ). If you have something to say about the social aspect of each country, offer it to lifestyle type sites. Don't restrict yourself to only travel.

 

Hey that's a great idea about other niche areas. I'd love to write about the unique foods I encountered in Greece and Austria and Budapest and even England, haha. No offense, Brits.

My primary goal is to write them down for fun, but if the chance to distribute them can bring me some potential backlinks and other internet good-things, why not? I think I've decided not to make them into a site of their own, they'd be better off out of my hands actually.

Maybe I'll write a few as samples and post in the Services area of Buy, Sell or Trade to see if I can't get some potential publishers out of them, we all known content is king! If I decide to go the article site route, do you think I should alter them for each different site?

 

Sell them to me.

 

Open a blogger put in some photos and Adsense and make some small money why not

 

or... sell them to me.

 

I would consider that also, PM me your site!

 

You could try to get them published, as a weekly/monthly column for a newspaper or magazine - the way you have paid for these trips (music) can be a nice angle for some I guess


or, as you can see from Roze's and zmans response: enough travel sites will be wanting your articles! (that includes me too ). If you are interested in backlinks: submitting your article to the know article dbases will help, but will not get you money directly.

 

Well to be honest, Frank, I'm most interested in the back links, especially if I can choose my anchor text (like I said, it would be perfectly reasonable and not spammy). I'll start writing a few and see what I can come up with. The more I think about it, I could probably write 30 or more articles about my travels.

 

Post here when you finnish some, sounds very interresting!

 

We'll for sure give you good solid backlinks.

 

I'm always looking for travel related articles, visit the site in my signature if your interested in submitting.