I’ve finally made some decisions about my old, neglected friend Travoholic. The site has been rotting away for years exisiting only as a billboard for link sales. The site is loved by Google and I’ve decided to start giving it a little love of my own once again.
I’m a bit wary of changing the site around too much because I don’t want to lose any of my rankings in the SERPs. But I have decided to add a new section for articles, country guides and hostel reviews for Asia. I might set the new section up with a new design that I prefer and see how things go. If I see that Google likes it and start to see the pages ranking well, I might convert the entire site to the new design and restructure the navigation and hope for the best. I have a lot of content to add and really think I’m capable of doubling the site’s traffic with some new articles and an Asia section.
My other major project has been my travel blog, Wanderstruck. I had originally wanted to make this site a huge guide, review, video, photo and blog type site because I really love the domain name. I’ve instead decided that I can do all the extra stuff over at Travoholic and will instead keep Wanderstruck as a travel blog only. I’m looking for some feedback on it. I’m not sure about the colours (mainly the brown) and am in search of plugins that work well for travel blogs. I really don’t know much about the world of plugins so don’t even really know what I’m missing. If anyone can point me to travel blogs you like, maybe I can get some inspiration. There are still lots of little things I need to do to the site including uploading photos to Flickr. am I the only person who thinks Flickr completely sucks? I will never understand why it’s so popular.
I’m not planning on monetising the site. It’s just going to be a way to keep in touch with family and friends and hopefully attract a few readers who I don’t know. I guess it’s more for fun and maybe getting my name out there into the travel blogosphere. I can’t believe I just used the word ‘blogosphere’.
Any feedback is appreciated! I’m looking forward to getting the travel blog up to scratch and am looking even more forward to seeing what kind of an impact adding new content to Travoholic.com has on that site. Once I get back to Beijing I’ll be hard at work on Stuck in Beijing so I’ve got a couple of days worth of hard work ahead of me here in Hong Kong.
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