I run five travel websites, including the Cheapest Destinations Blog established in 2003 and Perceptive Travel launched in 2006. I'm also the author of multiple travel and living abroad books including A Better Life for Half the Price. See it all at TimLeffel.com
TBEX Europe party and Tampa Bay
Mexico
New Zealand and Patagonia
Travel writer
Places I haven't been yet
Opens your mind
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
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
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
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
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.
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