In 2018, Mike and I decided to start traveling full-time. At that point, I had already spent a few years bouncing around: teaching English in Thailand, backpacking through Europe on a budget, and living out of a campervan in New Zealand. So going full-time wasn’t a huge stretch. What made it possible was teaching English online with VIPKID (they’re hiring again, by the way). I was pulling in around $2,500–$3,000/month, which was enough to fund our life in places like Southeast Asia and...
14 days ago • 4 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Tip of the Week💡 Your Old Blog Posts Could Be Earning $$$(Here’s How) Brought to you by Travelpayouts Back in 2018, before I really knew how to make money from blogging, I wrote a post about our many trips to Moab, Utah. It was one of those super helpful posts, packed with details. I shared our favorite hikes, the hotel we stayed at, the car we rented, where we ate, and even a few things we wished we’d had time to do. The post did great. It started pulling in big traffic and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Success Story 💡 How Tanya Grew Her Blog to $800/Month with Just 4,900 Sessions(After Less Than 1 Year Blogging) One of my favorite things lately has been sharing success stories and behind-the-scenes tips from real bloggers inside Scale Your Travel Blog. And if you’ve been wondering whether it’s still worth starting a blog, or whether you should keep going, use this success story as proof that it absolutely is. Today, I want you to meet Tanya from The T Word on Travel. When...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 Full-Time Blogger: How Samantha Turned Her Itinerary Posts Into List Growth You know I love a good blogging success story. Especially one that doesn’t come from someone with 500K Instagram followers or a perfect Pinterest account (though that's cool, too). This week, I want to introduce you to Samantha Hamilton, a Scale Your Travel Blog student and the full-time blogger behind New England Wanderlust. She’s a perfect example of how leaning into what your audience...
2 months ago • 4 min read
After graduating from college in 2013, I landed my first “real job” in an office with no windows. (By the way... what is it with windowless offices being the unofficial initiation into "adult life"? 😂) Anyway, it didn’t take long for me to realize that spending 9 hours a day under fluorescent lights wasn’t the dream. About eight months in, I cashed in all 12 of my vacation days and booked a trip to Europe with a friend. I’d never traveled internationally before. In college, most of my friends...
2 months ago • 6 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Success Story + Tips 💡 How Jordie Earned £2,200+ From Her Travel Blog Last Month(While Raising a 1-Year-Old) Let’s be honest... ...hitting a full-time income from your blog can feel like chasing a unicorn, especially when you’re not getting 100,000+ pageviews a month. But this week, I want to share a real success story from a Scale Your Travel Blog student who’s proving that it’s very possible to hit those income goals, even before qualifying for an ad network like Mediavine...
3 months ago • 5 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 3 Top Affiliate Marketing Mistakes Travel Bloggers Make (& What to Do Instead) Brought to you by Travelpayouts Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to monetize a travel blog. But most bloggers struggle with it because they’re making a few critical mistakes. I know this because I made these exact mistakes when I started. If you’re adding affiliate links to your blog but not seeing consistent commissions, there’s a good chance you’re doing one (or more) of...
3 months ago • 7 min read
💡 Travel Blogging Success Story 💡 How Robyn Makes $900 Per Month from Just 6,000 Monthly Sessions Most bloggers assume they need tens of thousands of monthly pageviews to make real money from their blogs. Ad income is their only target, and they are laser focused on that end goal. And believe me, ad income as a blogger is really nice. It's the easiest way to monetize traffic in terms of actual effort. ^^ Yesterday alone I made $226.13 in ad income. (So yeah, I love ad income!) But what if a...
3 months ago • 4 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 Does Google Hate Blogs?Here's the truth... If you’ve been in any blogging group lately, you’ve probably heard the same thing over and over: “Google only ranks big brands now.”“SEO is dead for small bloggers.”“Affiliate marketing is impossible because we can’t rank anymore.” But… what if I told you that’s not actually true? While I understand and empathize with the fact that Google can be a huge rollercoaster.. ... the truth is that Google’s recent updates have...
4 months ago • 3 min read
💡 Blogging Tip of the Week 💡 Do You NEED Ads on Your Blog to Make Money? For those who don’t know, I was laughably bad at blogging for the first five years of my so-called “career.”(And I’m currently laughing at the word “career” because… yeah. 😅) But eventually, through a lot of trial, error, and iterations, I figured it out, and turned blogging into a seriously successful business. And it all started when I got my blog into an ad network. When I hit the threshold to apply for Mediavine, I...
4 months ago • 3 min read