Heres Seth Godin’s 56 tips on promoting your blog 56 ways to get traffic to your blog. Have any of these tips worked for you or do you have any more tips for promotion? Let us know, we’d love to hear about it.
Casey
Blogging is not only a fun thing to do, but can also be a financially benificial way to share your experiences with the world. People all around the world are wanting more information on things you are doing and places you have been, they are hungry for more knowledge. So help them out give them details, share moments of your journey and make your blog fun to read and easy to relate to. Aimless websurfers who stumble upon your page will become enchanted by your posts and become avid readers. Avid readers tell their friends and their friends tell their friends, next thing you know your blog has 4000 hits a week and you are making a splash in the blogging community.
OK sure if I pour my soul into this blog I’ll get readers? Readers yes, and with readers you have an audience. You can monetize this audience by placing small advertisements on blogs or selling space or links to advertisers. The best way to cash in on a large reader base is google adsense which displays relevent text or image ads based on what is written on the page they are placed. For more info on these ads check out google adsense here. For every click from your site you get a small amount of money. This is a great way to turn traffic in to cash.
But how do I get readers, there are so many blogs out there already?
Blogging takes time and effort to grow just like anything in life. One way to increase the popularity of your blog is to get other related sites to link to you. This is often as easy as emailing the site admin and asking nicely, most sites will want a link from your blog pointing back to them.
Blog directories are another way to build traffic and popularity. Blogging Abroad has a free directory for travel bloggers that you can submit your blog to here .
These are the first steps to building a blog and cashing in on its popularity. And everyone loves seeing photography so don’t forget to get a flickr account and embed photos in your posts!
Casey
Blogging is a great way to share your travel experiencs with friends, family and other travel enthusiasts. Your blog can act as a homebase for your trip. Your friends can come stop by and read where you have been and what you’ve been up to, and your friends can even interact by leaving comments on your blog posts.
You can even embed photos on to your posts just like an email. There are some sites out there such as Flickr that will host your photos for you for free. This is a great way to store your photos on your journey and not worry about losing your precious memories.
Heres an example of an embedded image:
I’ll be bringing you more info on blogging your travels all the time, keep checking back!
Casey
Hi everyone,
My name is Casey Bolton and I just started up bloggingabroad.com for a few reasons:
1. I absolutely love travelling
2. I love reading travel blogs
3. I love looking at travel photos
4. To give travel bloggers a place to showcase their blogs
We will bring you the best travel blogs out there, as well as information on how to start, create and promote your own outstanding travel blog.
Again welcome to bloggingabroad.com 
Casey