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SEO on a Travel Blog/Site

by redstanford
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How the heck would I do off-site seo for my travel site/blog I just began?


My site is generally about California travel. To me the seo aspect of it seems tough. With Amazon sites, I would have a central theme, a central keyword(s).

For example best bbq pit, bet bbq pits, bbq pit reviews

but my site has posts like:
A day in Joshua Tree National Park on Mount Ryan
5 photographs from our walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
3 things to see in San Luis Obispo

how do I build backlinks for stuff like that? would I be better off building links to the inner pages instead of the homepage?

IE: kw: Things to see San Luis Obispo pointing to "3 things to see in San Luis Obispo"
#blog or site #seo #travel
  • Profile picture of the author seoace
    Same as how you would backlink to an amazon site.

    For your case, the post "A day in Joshua Tree National Park on Mount Ryan", you can backlink with anchor texts like Mount Ryan Trips, Best places to go in California, Highlights of Mount Ryan, etc.

    Next post "5 photographs from our walk across the Golden Gate Bridge", you can backlink with anchor text like Golden Gate Bridge photos, Trips to Golden Gate Bridge, etc.

    Backlinking to the homepage and the inner pages is usually personal preference. For me I always build 80-90% to the page and 10% to the homepage.

    Basically, everything is the same as how you would seo for an amazon site. Well, the only difference is how you would monetize them
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  • Profile picture of the author traveltext
    Since you don't have an article with the potential to SEO on your home page, most of your optimisation would be better delivering visitors to the page that the full article is delivered on.

    I would be inclined to get material on your site that suits popular search terms. This way you'll build up your traffic at a quicker rate.
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    • Profile picture of the author redstanford
      Originally Posted by traveltext View Post

      Since you don't have an article with the potential to SEO on your home page, most of your optimisation would be better delivering visitors to the page that the full article is delivered on.

      I would be inclined to get material on your site that suits popular search terms. This way you'll build up your traffic at a quicker rate.

      i know what you're talking about. That's why I plan on packing my site full of travel guides for various cities in CA. plus best restaurants, best tours, highlights etc.

      here is an example of what I'm starting to do for san francisco
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  • Profile picture of the author Fraggler
    That's you doing the walk in the Joshua Tree National Park? I wouldn't be directly backlinking pages like that to rank in Google. I doubt the search numbers will be overly massive and I bet a lot of them are unique. You should get a lot of long tail traffic however as the site grows.

    With posts like the Joshua Tree National Park you could attract visitors by sharing your story on bushwalking and photography forums and blogs. That type of content is a prime candidate for guest blogging and community interaction. The more of those posts you create the more visitors will stick around too.

    So yeah, I'd be interacting with the bushwalking community, build up a list of contacts, guest post for backlinks and take the long tails.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vivers
    Writing articles and blogs with long tail anchor keywords maybe as well.
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