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Member for 9 Years
Joined July 2016 - Verified Member
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Tampa FL and Guanajuato Mexico
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Explore 17 000+ Verified Members and find travel professionals, creators, and startups from all around the world.About me
I run four travel websites, including the Cheapest Destinations Blog established in 2003 and Perceptive Travel launched in 2006. I have sold two other sites I launched. I'm also the author of multiple travel and living abroad books including A Better Life for Half the Price and Travel Writing 2.0. See it all at TimLeffel.com
Why did you join the community?
Q&ATBEX Europe party and Tampa Bay
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AMexico
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&ANew Zealand and Patagonia
What was your first travel job?
Q&ATravel writer
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&APlaces I haven't been yet
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&AOpens your mind
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The fact that you mentioned conversions shows you're looking through an e-commerce lens, not a content site lens. Both my search traffic and my overall traffic across 4 travel websites is higher than it was before AI came along. The LLMs are sending few... show more
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Nothing. If you do SEO right, you should be covered with LLMs as well, especially if you get mentioned a lot outside of your own site(s). Second, we content creators get so little traffic from LLMs that optimizing for them has very little upside and a h... show more
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It's a whole lot easier if your site is (or better, sites are) supporting you through revenue from display ads, affiliate ads, sponsored posts, direct products/services, etc. Then you don't have to make your article subject the customer as well and get ... show more
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Just added our house in Mexico. Let's do this! We are/were on Noad but I think they're kaput, unfortunately. My travel blogger agency worked with them in the beginning to help them scale, but then they raised prices when they only had about 100 homes in... show more
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See this travel blogger agency site I co-founded more than a decade ago and contact the person listed there. https://www.360travelnetwork.com/ You'd probably have good success attending TBEX or the Bansko Nomad Fest too.
Best channel to get brand ambassadors? 1 year ago