Do you want to make a successful travel blog but don’t know where to start? You searched for how to make a travel blog in 2021 or How to write a travel blog, which means you are really serious about travel blogging.

Before moving forward, let me tell you something, blogging is a very easy thing to do (thanks to WordPress), but you have to have some patience as blogs don’t work overnight. And Forget about making money from blogs and focus on making quality content. Quality content always brings money.

BTW, you can check these Top 10 places to visit after this lockdown in India that I’ve curated specially for the travelers. So, if you’re ready to learn how to make a travel blog, then follow these steps:-

1. Answer yourself – Figure out how travel blogs can work for you.
2. Pick a name for your travel blog – which is going to be your brand.
3. Choose a host for your travel blog
4. Set up your travel blog | Install WordPress
5. Make your travel blog look good(theme and logo)
6. Some Essential Plugins for Travel Bloggers
7. It’s time to write a travel blog

1. Answer yourself – Figure out how travel blogs can work for you.

Before actually learning how to start a travel blog, you need to ask some questions yourself.

• What is your motive?
• What is your passion?
• Who are you writing for?
• What makes you different from others?
• Which kind of blogs do you like?
• How would you like to be known?
• How you are going to manage the time for travel blogs?
• Last but not the least, what is stopping you from doing what you want to do?

After answering all these questions to yourself, now you have a clear picture in your mind about your travel blog.

Now as you have a clear picture in mind of your travel blog we can move forward towards picking a name.

2. Pick a name for your travel blog –which is going to be your brand.

Picking a name for your travel blog can be a very challenging task, you should always keep some things in mind such as:-

• Make it Relevant – Try to make it more relevant to your niche.
• Keep it short – Short texts are easy to remember. So, try to keep it under 15 characters.
• Keep it simple – If your travel blog name is exceeding 15 characters then please try to make it as simple as you can, so that people can easily remember it.
• Come up with a new idea – Try to scrumble some words related to your niche to get something new.
• Make sure your travel blog’s name is available on all the social media platforms, otherwise have some alternate ready.

When you are ready with your travel blog’s name, get it registered online, which is known as Domain Name. You have several options to choose from such as GoDaddy, BigRock, Namecheap, etc for your travel blog domain in India.

You don’t have to worry much about the extension of your domain, i.e, .com or .in. Just register the name with .com if possible otherwise choose any extension. Because .com is widely used over the globe, so it is easy to be remembered.

3. Choose a host for your travel blog

After setting up the domain for your travel blog, now you need web hosting. So hosting is a space where your travel blog will stay, where you are going to publish your content.
Now there are several options for your travel blog hosting in India, like Bluehost, Siteground, Hostgator, Hostinger. You need to figure out which hosting will best work for you, as every other company has its own pros and cons.

For example – As you can see the price difference between all of them. The Bluehost host has the best services, the Siteground has the best reputation, the HostGator’s overall performance is good, while Hostinger has the cheapest plans to go with. Hostinger can be the best option for your travel blog in India.

Now you can see there are some plans which offer domain name as well. So you need to do some calculations before purchasing the domain and hosting for your travel blog. If you see a plan which offers domain + hosting in a single plan and that plan is in your budget, you can go for that option as well. And also you can purchase the domain and hosting separately from different websites if you want. For example – you can buy the domain name from GoDaddy and hosting from Hostinger.

After comparing all the different plans of different platforms, you might have a clear option to go with. Like I chose the Hostinger for my travel blog, as it has the cheapest plans in India, so further I will tell you all the things that should be followed to make an awesome blog site.

4. Set up your travel blog | Install WordPress

Once you’ve signed up for hosting, you need to install WordPress. WordPress is a platform where you will be writing posts and sharing content.

Installing WordPress for your travel blog is not a very hard task. After purchasing your hosting, you must have got your hpanel or cpanel where you can manage all your web files and everything related to your hosting.

In your cpanel dashboard, you will find an option to install WordPress. In hostinger’s hpanel it’s under the Auto Installer.

5. Make your travel blog look good

Now is the time to make your site look good. Your website design (theme) is the first impression to your readers, so you have to make sure it looks good enough to stay on that page for some time. Here are a couple of options for finding a theme:-

• WordPress Inbuilt Themes: Head over to the themes section in your WordPress dashboard under appearance and you can see several themes to choose from.

  

• Envato Elements: Just check their site you will also find a couple of options for free and premium themes. Choose whatever you like for your travel blog.

  

• Elegant Themes: Elegant themes will provide you the visual editing for your theme. So it won’t be that hard to further make changes in the theme as you like.

  

After choosing the free theme or paid theme you will be guided by the theme provide with instructions to install your theme in your travel blog.

After setting up the theme for your travel blog, I recommend you get yourself a logo that represents your brand.

As you might have seen, in this era there is no brand without a logo. Because the logo represents the brand itself. So, you may have to get yourself a logo for your travel blog that is going to define your brand.

You can make a logo yourself by using some of the online tools that will help you to make a logo or you can hire a freelancer to make a logo. Here are some options you can go with:-

• Canva – Here you can make free designs and logos. You can find some templates to edit them and make them yours as you want.

  

• OnlineLogoMaker – Some other tools like OnlineLogoMaker can help you out to make a logo.
• Freelancer – If you don’t want to spend time making a logo, simply hire a freelancer from any freelancing website like freelancer.com, fiverr.com, etc. They will make your logo for your travel blog without any hassle.

6. Some Essential Plugins for Travel Bloggers

At this point, you have a clean-looking travel blog site. So, it’s time to install the WordPress plugins. Plugins make life easier to do most of the stuff. I’ve curated some of the essential plugins that you’ll need to ease up handle your travel blog.

Head over to the Plugins section in the WordPress dashboard and click on “add new”. Here you can search for the following plugins:

• Akismet: Have you ever seen a spam comment? It doesn’t look good! right? So this plugin will automatically detect and deletes spam comments.
• Comments Not Replied To This plugin will help you filter the unanswered comments on your post.
• Contact Form 7: This plugin will add a form to your contact page so that people can contact you by your email.
• Yoast SEO: You want to be a blogger! Right? So you want people to read your blogs! Right? So you need to get familiar with SEO. SEO is a technique that will help you rank on the search engine’s result page. This plugin is loaded with such features that will help you rank on the search engine’s result page. This is a must-install plugin.

7. It’s time to write a travel blog

When you have everything ready with you. Now you just have to explore the places and write your travel blog about your experience, and whatever you have thought you are going to write.

Just a friendly reminder that I believe in you. Go get ‘em!