Making Money with Your Travel Website
Learn how two travel writers transformed their travel websites into
their primary income.
You’ve built a website to sell your travel product. Maybe you’re
a travel writer selling your guidebooks or a B&B owner introducing
your inn and booking rooms. Or maybe you’re operating a destination
website with information on what to do, where to go, and upcoming
events. Perhaps you’re a travel agent showing your clients both your
expertise and current promotions.
But many of those readers won't buy that guidebook, book that room,
or buy that trip. They'll leave your website without spending a dime.
What if you could make some money from your visitors—whether a few
cents for an advertisement or several dollars from selling some
merchandise—before they leave?
That’s where this book comes in. Making Money With Your Travel
Website offers you various options for making extra money with your
travel website, just as we’ve done.
This ebook is a PDF and can be read on any computer. When you
purchase this ebook, you'll be directed to a pickup page and can
download the book file right away and get started.
We’re not web gurus, we’re not computer techies. We’re
professional travel writers so we’ve been drawn to easy-to-implement
monetization methods that we set up and operate ourselves. This book
covers techniques we’ve used successfully—and a few we’ve tried
and dropped—on our websites, the sites that now make up the majority
of our annual income.
Who Should Read This Book?
This book is aimed at travel professionals who have their own travel
website or who administer a travel website including:
* travel writers
* travel agents
* B&B owners and operators
* hoteliers
* tour operators
* travel attraction websites
* travel destination websites
* festival and special event websites
* other travel professionals
What Will I Learn?
Learn what to expect from Google AdSense and other advertising
programs.
Learn how to select affiliate programs that will work for your
site.
Learn how to boost traffic to your website to increase your
earnings potential.
Learn the one thing you should NEVER do on your site!
Learn how creating your own information products can be more
profitable than writing guidebooks.
Learn how to use Twitter to increase your site's traffic in the
free bonus book!
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Chapter One: Building Traffic 11
Take a look at your site 11
Brand Yourself 12
Blogging for Traffic 13
Buying Traffic 15
Where to Buy Ads 17
E-Newsletters 19
Press Releases 22
RSS Feeds 23
Widgets 24
Marketing on Forums 27
Web 2.0 28
Chapter Two: Making Money with Advertising 32
How You’re Paid 32
contextual ads and Google Adsense 32
Other ad Networks 35
CPM Ads 35
Inline Ads 36
Other Advertising Options 37
Direct Advertising 38
Advertorials 41
Chapter Three: Affiliate Marketing 43
How to Pick Affiliate Programs 43
How to Promote Affiliates 44
Top Affiliate Networks 44
Cloaking affiliate links 48
Big mistakes to Avoid in Affiliate Marketing 49
Chapter Four: Selling Your Own Products 51
Ebooks 51
How to Sell Your Ebook 53
Print on Demand books 54
Self-Published Books 55
More Revenue Streams 57
Appendix: Resources 59
Advertising 59
Affiliate Marketing 59
Blogging 59
Books 60
Webmaster Issues 60
What We Do
Throughout Making Money with Your Travel Website, you'll find
special boxes highlighting just what we've done on our sites. You'll
learn:
* how we create multiple blogs on our sites
* which article marketing sites we have found to produce the best
results
* which social marketing site we've been most successful with
* how we've optimized our Google AdSense ads on our sites
* what color links are most successful for ads on your site
* how we sell our ebooks on our site
* which print on demand publisher we use
* and more!
Who Are Paris Permenter over 2,500 of our travel articles have
appeared in major magazines and newspapers. We've hosted online travel
forums, served as expert travel sources for top name magazines, and
appeared on dozens of radio and TV shows discussing travel.
And We Run A Network of Niche Websites
Since 2000, we've operated a growing network of niche travel
websites including:
Lovetripper.com Romantic Travel Guide
TexasTripper.com Texas Travel Guide
DogTipper.com
Order Now for $17
Yes, I'm ready to make my travel website make money!
We offer a 60-day, no questions asked, 100% satisfaction guarantee
with every purchase. There's nothing to lose!
_Download_ Making Money with Your Travel Website _with your free
bonus _Twitter for Webmasters _for $17_
Your purchase will be completed immediately using Clickbank's secure
server, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Your payment
information will never be shared with us.
Bonus Book:
Twitter for Webmasters
Twitter is one of the hottest social marketing tools out there right
now--but how can you use it to market your website?
_Twitter for Webmasters_ discusses how you can set up a Twitter
account, optimize your profile and background, and learn to "tweet" to
drive traffic to your website...all for free and in just minutes a
day!
Order Now for $17
Yes, I'm ready to make my travel website make money!
We offer a 60-day, no questions asked, 100% satisfaction guarantee
with every purchase. There's nothing to lose!
_Download_ Making Money with Your Travel Website _with_ _your free
bonus _Twitter for Webmasters _for $17_
Your purchase will be completed immediately using Clickbank's secure
server, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Your payment
information will never be shared with us.
Questions? just email Paris and John at
