How to Build a Travel Web Site

If you love to travel or love the idea of traveling, you can expound on your passion by building a travel website in which you share your knowledge about travel destinations with visitors from all over the world.

Instructions

1

Decide what your website will be about. You already know it will be about travel, but you need to decide on what kind of travel---European travel, safaris, travels to a particular country, travel within the United States or travel within a particular state.

2

Decide who will do the writing. If you are well-traveled and like to write, chances are you have all the knowledge you need to create your travel website. If, however, your travel experience is limited, you can hire writers to write about their adventures. Although you won't pay for their travel expenses, you should pay them for their work and let them know they should write off part of their travel expenses as business expenses (and should see a tax specialist about this).

3

Purchasing a domain name and hosting plan in which to create your site. If you have no knowledge of HTML or other website-building languages, you can purchase templates that will help you build your site with a few clicks of your mouse. Go Daddy has a program called "Website Tonight" for beginners, and---as the name implies---most users can get a website up and running within a few hours (see Resources).

4

Include photos on your website. Readers of travel articles like to see photographs in order to determine if it's the type of destination they would like to visit.

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Monetize your site by registering with affiliate networks. These are free to register for, and by placing text links or banner ads on your site, you can earn a commission if a reader clicks on your links and purchases something on the merchant's site. Examples are links for rental cars, flight deals, hotels, luggage and travel pillows---anything related to travel (see Resources).