Why contribute a travel blog guest post on 2backpackers.com?
A travel blog guest post offers an opportunity to reach a new audience or build a portfolio of work as a freelance writer. Our around the world travel blog is your platform for travel related writing, travel photos or even some travel videos to draw attention to your YouTube or Vimeo channel.
- We only link to independent travel blogger websites. If you are representing a company or desire a link to a company, please see our paid options.
What type of posts are we looking for?
Single Travel Photo of the Day, Photo Essays, Tavel Videos and of course travel writing. Our blog is extremely visual, therefore we look for articles that focus heavily on pictures. High quality photo essays work best. Articles with a lot of text and few or low quality photographs won’t do well on our site. These types of submissions will probably be turned down. Write about a destination, a how-to article or a discussion piece. It is important that you submit your best work, considering it’s an opportunity to expose your name to a new audience for the first time. If the article does well on our site you have the potential of a backlink from a page with a good Google PageRank. This is why we try to assist you in providing content that works well on our travel blog website.
Do I Get Credit?
Yes, you get credit for your work. Your name will appear as the author of the post in the top and bottom of the post body. We will include a snippet at the beginning of the article which will include a link to your website. At the bottom of the post appears an author bio box where we highlight you by including your name, Gravatar and a short bio. Please do not provide any backlinks within the content of the article. We will include the link ourselves.
Guest Post Policies
- Material must be new, no previously published content. Photos previously used can be submitted within a collection or as a Travel Photo of the Day.
- At no point can this content be used on your own website or any other website, unless first agreed upon (this policy exists because Google doesn’t appreciate duplicate content, nor do we want to compete directly with you on identical articles.)
- You are the copyright owner of the content, but give us publication rights
- Avoid articles that are heavy on text and short on photos. A long read can sometimes be a difficult sell
- A minimum of 3 photos (at least 550px width not stretched) must be provided with the content for an article, but we prefer more
- If you are providing a Travel Photo of the Day, the minimum width is 1024px
- You must host all you photos and provide us the links only
- For all posts, please provide a 300px wide thumbnail photo
- Keep images to a small file size so they load quickly, less than 400kb
- If you source images from Flickr, provide the creative commons link detailing the creator
- You are responsible for the promotion of your content through StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc.
- Provide your Gravatar email, the name as you would like it to appear and a short bio with your preferred name to appear on the post
- Write your best stuff, not the stuff you don’t want on your blog
- Use a collection of your best photos to really have the article take off – Photo Essays do best
Changes to the Post
We do reserve the right to make editing changes to your post, however they will usually remain minor. These include changing the title of the post, moving pictures around, adding links, adding keywords and adding or moving headings. This is all intended to assist in the promotion of your post.
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Submitting Guest Post
Send your best guest post ideas to jason(at)castellanimedia.com and I will try to reply within a week.
We will consider ongoing travel blog guest posts from authors that we approve and are willing to take ownership of their posting process on 2backpackers.com.
