Happy New Year from Christchurch, New Zealand! I hope everyone had a great celebration! My friends and I went into town, saw some fireworks, and had a few drinks. It was a low key and relaxing new year’s celebration, but one I definitely wanted after 3 years of Full Moon Parties. But, to me, New [...]
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How to Build a Travel Blog
After I released my ebook on how to make money with your travel blog, I was deluged with many questions about how to actually make a blog. How do I do this with Wordpress? Where can I find information on coding? What are some good plugins? How do I self host? Should I self host? [...]
Balancing Work and Play in Bruges
Colin Farrell said that to like Bruges, you must either be a farmer or a retard. To him, Bruges was hell. But I disagree. For me, Bruges was very beautiful and very boring. I’ve wanted to see Bruges for awhile, and that movie only increased that desire. But Bruges, as beautiful as it is, [...]
Is Travel Blogging Real Journalism?
One of the most interesting discussions at TBEX was about whether travel blogging was journalism. Was this online art just as good as print media? Were bloggers just as thoughtful, meticulous, and well researched as traditional writers? The infamous Chris Elliott said he saw no difference between print and online content. Blogging was just digital [...]
How to Make Money With Your Travel Blog
I get a lot of questions about search engine optimization and how to make money with a travel blog. I guess I’ve developed a little bit of a reputation as being a travel blogger who is also an internet marketer. Daily e-mails enter my in box about how to do this or how to do [...]
Nomadic Matt Turns One Year Old
Today is my birthday. One of them at least. I like to think my blog has two birthdays. The first birthday is the day I posted my first blog post. The second is the day I got rid of my crappy blogger page, the bad html and moved into wordpress. Today is birthday number [...]
How the Internet Will Change Travel
Blogs. Message Boards. Online Maps. Couchsurfing. Online Booking. It seems you can do everything on the web nowadays. With all the travel plans you can make online, it’s no wonder that many people say the future of travel is on the Internet. While these services and tool have not completely changed how people travel, as [...]
When My Website Was Down…