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?
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Learn what to expect from Google AdSense and other advertising programs. |
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Learn how to select affiliate programs that will work for your site. |
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Learn how to boost traffic to your website to increase your earnings potential. |
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Learn the one thing you should NEVER do on your site! |
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Learn how creating your own information products can be more profitable than writing guidebooks. |
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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
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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 & John Bigley?
We're Paris Permenter and John Bigley, a husband-wife team of award-winning professional travel writers. Together we've authored more than two dozen travel guidebooks for publishers including Fodor's, Michelin, John Muir, Avalon, Open Road, Hunter, and Globe Pequot; 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
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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
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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.
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Bonus Book:
Twitter for Webmasters
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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!
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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
Order now
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.
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Sell this book on your website
Questions? just email Paris and John at parisandjohn@parisandjohn.com
