Another exciting book has been released on Amazon by Indian travel blogger Shalu Sharma. This book as it says on the cover “How To Start A Travel Blog And Make Money” details the important technical aspects of how to start a travel blog and make money from it.
It details those technical aspects that many bloggers fail to understand which is setting up a blog on WordPress. WordPress has a steep learning curve and the book covers all the essential elements of how to set up a blog from within cPanel using Fantastico De Luxe in a few clicks. She starts of the book by saying, why everyone should have a travel blog despite if one is travelling on a regular basis or not. She then starts off the technical aspects of setting the travel blog from getting a domain name to all the necessary technical issues such as hosting and others aspects that a potential blogger might want to learn. It then details how to change WordPress themes, install plugins and highlights the most important plugins to install, how to write a blog post and many others aspects of blogging using WordPress.
Shalu has also explained how to set up Domain Name Servers (DNS) if one wants to use Blogger as a content management system. Blogger which is owned by Google, is an attractive blogging system and used widely, however many are still using the extension blogspot.com provided by Blogger. All it costs is about $10 to own a domain which can be set up to Blogger to host on custom domain for free. This intimidating step puts many bloggers off which is explained beautifully by Shalu Sharma with excellent screen shots.
She then goes on to explain; how to use write blog posts, what type of travel blog posts to write, and when to write. She then goes in detail on, how to make money from the travel blog which is the most important part of travel blogging.
Starting a travel blog might be an easy task but promoting each and every blog post that makes money is a completely different issue all together. Shalu explains all the important ways the travel blogger can make money from their travel blog. There are many ways how to make money from a travel blog other than the usual traditional method of using Adsense or other contextual ads. She explains on the most popular to methods that still require tapping revene generation when it comes to travel blogging.
Here are the table of contents of the book
Chapter 1: Introduction to travel blogging and how to start it
Chapter 2: Why everyone should have a travel blog
Chapter 3: Things needed to start a travel blog
Chapter 4: Registering a domain name
Chapter 5: Setting up custom domain with Blogger
Chapter 6: How to set up hosting
Chapter 7: How to set up WordPress using cpanel
Chapter 8: Changing WordPress theme
Chapter 9: Installing WordPress plugins
Chapter 10: Creating travel content
Chapter 11: How to create posts
Chapter 12: Search Engine Optimisation for your travel site
Chapter 13: Off page SEO
Chapter 14: Track your website traffic
Chapter 15: Things to do after publishing your post
Chapter 16: How to promote your travel blog using social media
Chapter 17: Commenting for traffic
Chapter 18: Travel sites to join
Chapter 19: How to make money from your travel blog
Chapter 20: Hot tips
Message from the author
The book is available on across all Amazon stores: http://www.amazon.com/Start-Travel-Blog-Money-ebook/dp/B0...
About the author of the book
Shalu Sharma is a travel blogger from India. She blogs about travelling to India and provides travel guide and tips on India. Her author page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/shalusharma
