If you love to travel or love the idea of
traveling, you can expound on your passion by building a travel website in
which you share your knowledge about travel destinations with visitors from all
over the world.
1 Decide what your website will be about.
You already know it will be about travel, but you need to decide on what kind
of travel---European travel, safaris, travels to a particular country, travel
within the United States or travel within a particular state.
2 Decide who will do the writing. If you
are well-traveled and like to write, chances are you have all the knowledge you
need to create your travel website. If, however, your travel experience is
limited, you can hire writers to write about their adventures. Although you
won't pay for their travel expenses, you should pay them for their work and let
them know they should write off part of their travel expenses as business
expenses (and should see a tax specialist about this).
3 Purchasing a domain name and hosting plan
in which to create your site. If you have no knowledge of HTML or other
website-building languages, you can purchase templates that will help you build
your site with a few clicks of your mouse. Go Daddy has a program called
"Website Tonight" for beginners, and---as the name implies---most
users can get a website up and running within a few hours (see Resources).
4 Include photos on your website. Readers
of travel articles like to see photographs in order to determine if it's the
type of destination they would like to visit.
5 Monetize your site by registering with
affiliate networks. These are free to register for, and by placing text links
or banner ads on your site, you can earn a commission if a reader clicks on
your links and purchases something on the merchant's site. Examples are links
for rental cars, flight deals, hotels, luggage and travel pillows---anything
related to travel (see Resources).
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