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How About “Real” Travel Guides?

By on 2. October 2014 in Inspiration

The travel guides we use are, surprise, surprise, the Lonely Planet and the very reliable Bradt Guides. For African countries and the Middle East we definitely prefer the latter, since it is much more detailed.

Trip Advisor has become a source as well, even though it revealed quite unreliable. Some evaluations are completely misleading. A few times we ended up in real dumps recommended eloquently by supposed visitors. We are more and more cautious using this platform.

Forums are another important source of information, often more accurate and closer to reality than any travel guide can be. The Lonely Planet ThornTree Forum is probably the most active & reliable exchange of travel experiences.

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For A Start: www.OneYearOff.net

By on 2. October 2014 in Traffic & PR

When I first thought of creating a website for our Trip Around The World in 2007, OneYearOff.net, I never imagined that it would become so successful and popular! 8 years later, we crossed the threshold of 110.000 Visitors with approx. 350.000 Pages Impressions, who spent altogether over 6.300 hours on my website (Source: Google Analytics).

I regularly contributed on the biggest Travel Forum, the Lonely Planet Thorntree and am proud to have produced some of the most popular posts there:

  • „Round The World Budget“ was read more than 5.500 (!!!) times,
  • „2 weeks in Oman – Our Experience“ over 4.300 times,
  • „2 weeks in Bulgaria – Our Experience“ altogether over 4.000 times,
  • “Kashmir & Ladakh – Many Highlights Without Trekking” over 2.000 times

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Further Down The Road… www.GrandEscapades.net

By on 2. October 2014 in Traffic & PR

I currently do not intend to be a professional Travel Blogger. I created this website to share my passion for Travel and for Travel Photography. This is why I do not publish with a precise schedule, I do not spend nights on Social Medias or writing guest posts to create backlinks for Google, … Nevertheless, this new website starts finding some regular audience after only 9 months of existence… Continue Reading →

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