In these blog posts about niches, I’ll be exposing or revealing the inputs needed for a niche website. Inputs that will make the blog work well and be successful. Like all niches, you have to look at the larger subject with the sub niches, and choose a sub niche that you can easily handle.
10 things to consider for a niche website:
- A domain name
- A hosting service – bluehost.com
- A wordpress.ORG or wordpress.com theme [you can search for one based on the niche you’ve chosen]
- Set up categories/menus for your site
- Set up the first five pages of your site
- Instal an SEO plugin – Yoast SEO recommended
- Keyword research
- Home and/or About Page
- Pillar page/s
- Your audience
You can refresh your memory with some of my posts on the above subjects that are also on my YouTube channel.
Travel Niche Ideas – Can you brainstorm by Yourself?
Yes. That is thinking through what you’ll want to write about that aspect of the travel niche you’ve chosen and making notes of the same. For example,
- Your passion;
- Knowledge;
- Things you’re good at;
- Hobbies;
- Things you’ve experience in;
- Preparedness to research;
- Taking notes.
We all have several interests and can write or talk about them at length. This is what makes people set up several websites. There’s no harm in using free sites like blogger.com to start several websites of interest. It will help you know and decide on the ones you’ll want to focus on in the long term.
The Way Forward – First Steps for Establishing a Website
- Use blogger.com or to set up your sites (as many as you want to try your hands on) and put content in them. This has several benefits: Will
- Prevent you from paying for hosting for several domains that are not being used immediately;
- Give you time to see which sites you’ll really like to spend your time on;
- Save time and money in the long run.
You gain an added benefit of learning how to add the following to a blog, to name a few:
- Blog post Images
- Header image
- Footer text
- Add menu/categories
- Upload from Google drive
- Add table of contents
- Use WordPress blocks
Blog Posts Blocks
During this trial period, you’ll learn about WordPress blocks in addition so you can compare it with Blogspot blocks. With this knowledge, you’ll be conversant with some of the elements before getting a wordpress.com or wordpress.org theme. Remember this is something you are doing in your own time at your own pace; of course you can seek the help of experts when you get stuck. Additionally, you must have a source of livelihood or be engaged in your regular job till your site has the potential to earn. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, some have gone into this without the intention of making earnings, only for their niche to turn out to be profitable.
Alternatively you can
- Invest in wealthyaffiliate.com to enjoy the benefits of learning from the community – i.e gain knowledge that you may struggle to find on your own; or
- Benefit from using their subdomain siterubix for your free sites;
- Invest in both free and paid forum/s where you can benefit from discussions;
- Join groups in your interest on social media.
Further steps
Research both online and offline;- Plan how to structure and write your posts
- Plan on content
Such research should help you farm out how you’ll go about the niche and what areas to cover. You can always add more or update the existing information on your niche, whilst having insights into angles to take. There are more micro niches related to most of the travel niche ideas listed below.
The Perfect Travel Niche
You’ll need to narrow down in this niche too as there are various aspects of travel. Let’s look at just a few of the many sub niches of travel to specialise on.
- Arts and culture
- Photography
- Cruise
- Group cruises
- Entertainment
- Festivals
- Adventure
- Volunteerism
- Interest
- Ethnic travel
- Corporate
- Meetings
- Lodging and transportation
- Vacation rentals
- Family
- Family vacations
- Groups
- Workshops
- Faith based
- Pilgrimage
- Digital nomad travel
- Work friendly destinations
Travel Vlog Ideas
If you’re thinking of vlogging (making videos) rather, you’ll still need the ff:
- A niche or subject that the video will be about,
- Tools for making your videos – there are several videos on youtube to learn this from.
- Free tools and ways of making videos
- Help of an expert
- Instal and use a video making app on your phone
- Strategies for making various types of videos
- A script (storyline) for recording
| Research Ideas from other websites in the travel Niche | |
| 1 | Domain name used |
| 2 | About page info |
| 3 | Purpose for starting the blog (if revealed) |
| 4 | How SEO is conducted. See if the SEO method used is the one youd like to use, as there are various approaches to SEO that can be used. |
| 5 | How links are built |
| 6 | Any marketing efforts (affiliate links)/adverts/ |
| 7 | Content creation process/blog |
| 8 | Tools/Resources |
| 9 | Efforts at creating an Email list/contact page |
| 10 | Knowledge of niche subject chosen plus effort at research |
Competitor Website Analysis
Yours may differ from others in the same niche – but by now you should know what a menu or category of a website is. Some have a few main categories with more sub categories. The list of categories below gives an idea of the possible ones to have, to name a few:
- Destination
- Flights and other means of transport
- Hotels
- Guides/tips
- Tour info
- Necessary items needed for a trip
- Best things to do
- Safety measures
This post has outlined some of the possibilities for a travel niche blog. If you’ve enjoyed it, do leave me a comment and please share.