Do you read travel or expat blogs?
- phuketrichard
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
".....my blog will be unique and as a consequence hugely successful["/b]
Learn SE optimization to get close to the top and even than, as a New blogger covering the same ground, you will be on page XXX out of 10,000
Best of luck
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Learn SE optimization to get close to the top and even than, as a New blogger covering the same ground, you will be on page XXX out of 10,000
Best of luck
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
If you're an Aussie, and a retiree, you could target that market with blogs/anecdotes about SE Asia. Tell them to get off their arses and live a little. Make it sound like retirement doesn't need to be boring.
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
I don’t read blogs, they’re a pain in the ass as far as I’m concerned.
There’s nothing unique about someone declaring to the world that, having visited Cambodia once or twice. Or having sat in a garage and got well lubricated, that they’re now a walking encyclopedia on the subject. Comparing the length of each other’s stay, while at the same time trying make some sort of an impression on the trough lollies as well, gets to be little tiresome after a while.
What you are looking for is a now market, and that market is at home. More and more Australians are staying at home for their holidays.
So! go the other way. Tell them of your experiences, and the comparisons that you’ve, only recently, become more aware of.
Let them know of the amusing things that they can expect to see over there, as opposed to at home.
I can walk in to any supermarket and get a BBQed chicken for $5.70 (US) and know that there are stringent guidelines in place that are there to protect the consumer. To reverse a similar purchase in the KOW would be an interesting read. But not me eh,
You need to appeal to the less experienced reader, there are too many experts out there already.
Not your trough, not your lollies, anymore.![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/dirol.gif)
There’s nothing unique about someone declaring to the world that, having visited Cambodia once or twice. Or having sat in a garage and got well lubricated, that they’re now a walking encyclopedia on the subject. Comparing the length of each other’s stay, while at the same time trying make some sort of an impression on the trough lollies as well, gets to be little tiresome after a while.
![Chase :dragonchase:](./images/smilies/dragonrouge.gif)
What you are looking for is a now market, and that market is at home. More and more Australians are staying at home for their holidays.
![Pardon :pardon:](./images/smilies/pardon.gif)
So! go the other way. Tell them of your experiences, and the comparisons that you’ve, only recently, become more aware of.
Let them know of the amusing things that they can expect to see over there, as opposed to at home.
![BangHead :BangHead:](./images/smilies/BangHead.gif)
I can walk in to any supermarket and get a BBQed chicken for $5.70 (US) and know that there are stringent guidelines in place that are there to protect the consumer. To reverse a similar purchase in the KOW would be an interesting read. But not me eh,
You need to appeal to the less experienced reader, there are too many experts out there already.
Not your trough, not your lollies, anymore.
![Cool 8)](./images/smilies/dirol.gif)
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
I am with UT on this. I would read it and if the content is compelling so would many others. Virality is a real phenomenon.
Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
Buy a low quality camera and a krama. Then go to some exotic place like Wat Botum or Riverside with your shirt off and loudly call those passing by motherfuckers.
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
I understand there's rarely anything new under the sun, and users on a forum such as this aren't likely to be interested in reading travel blogs that offer information they already know. It's really only the newbie traveler who might have an inclination to read such a blog, I agree. I just thought I'd ask here in case I assumed wrongly.
UT''s suggestion was a good one.
UT''s suggestion was a good one.
Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
please just avoid reviews of guest houses and restaurants. I have been in hotels when people from certain famous guide books phone up and ask the ownere how much he will pay to be in the i years lonely travelers guide, and eaten in places which i would not send my worst enemy to. In all likelihood by the time its on your blog the chinese will have taken it over of the chef will have moved on. What i do look at it places of interest, hidden treasures like clean swimming pools, shops and markets barang don't go to and which banks dont charge for atm, and where the freaking bust station / boat rides go from. That sort of stuff ages better and will be relevant for longer
Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
I like a good travel blog if it has quality photos and insight about places I may want to visit.
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Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
What! Are you suggesting he steal TripAdvisor's readership?Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:12 pm If you're an Aussie, and a retiree, you could target that market with blogs/anecdotes about SE Asia. Tell them to get off their arses and live a little. Make it sound like retirement doesn't need to be boring.
As my old Cajun bait seller used to say, "I opes you luck.
Re: Do you read travel or expat blogs?
If you let people respond to your posts then all the trolls from existing blogs/expat groups will find something to criticize in everything you say and will follow you like a hawk. That is good, becasue it generates traffic and traffic bumps you up the list and before you know where you are you will be earning .000000000000001 of a cent a month from googlezonbooksoft for targeted adverts. Alternativeley you could open a porn site or a golf site and make a shedload of money, or move to snooky and invest in some voip equipoment
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