Successful Travel Blog
Starting a travel blog is the best decision I’ve ever made.
Through this site, I’ve funded 13 years of full-time travel and gained a book deal for my travel memoir, along with a big New York City agent. I’ve been featured in large publications, like the Wall Street Journal, the Independent, and the BBC. I’ve been interviewed on the radio in front of an audience of 1.6 million listeners. I’ve been to over 100 countries. And I make a comfortable six figures each year in entirely passive income, meaning the money comes in whether I’m working or not. (In 2024, I’ve averaged about four hours of work a day).
And yet, before starting Never Ending Footsteps, I had zero writing experience, had no idea how to run a website, didn’t really know what a blog was, and had never heard of WordPress.
I hadn’t even travelled before.
I’d just graduated from college with a physics degree and was fully intending to throw myself into a career in particle physics — that is, after I took a year-long round-the-world trip.
Guys, I’ve now been travelling full-time for thirteen. freaking. years. That’s 13 years of travel paid for entirely through this travel blog. I want to cry when I think about it.
But you know what? Success to me isn’t just about the money, the book deal, and the media mentions.
Running Never Ending Footsteps has led to life-changing friendships with some of the most fascinating and inspirational people I’ve ever met. It’s taught me dozens of new skills and taken me to over a hundred countries. I even found my partner of 10+ years through this travel blog!
So yeah, I’d say starting a travel blog was the best decision I’ve made.
There are approximately seventeen bajillion articles describing how to start a travel blog in 2024, so I hesitated throwing my take into the mix for many years because of it. After reading several of these articles and cringing my way through them, though, I couldn’t hold back. So much of the information was outdated and wrong! And so, I want to write an article about how you can actually start a travel blog.
I want to show that you can build a six figure business — quickly and without selling out. And that being creative doesn’t have to mean being broke.
You don’t need to do what everyone else is doing — in fact, I recommend actively avoiding it. In a space as crowded as the travel blogging world, you need to stand out and that’s why my guide is the one you should follow. It’s one that’s based around what will give you the best chances of success in the present day.
And how do I know it works?
Because I’ve been mentoring a dozen brand new travel bloggers over the past two years, helping them get set up and find financial success in lighting-fast time. I even secretly started a second travel blog in March 2023 (anonymously, so that I couldn’t use my existing audience to jump-start its success) and it’s already making $2,000 a month in passive income, just over a year after starting it.
So many of the biggest travel bloggers who write these guides have no idea how to gain success in 2024 because they all did it back in 2010! The tactics that worked back then (back when Instagram didn’t even exist!) are the opposite of what works now.
I know what works in 2024 because I’ve been successful within the past year.
So with that out of the way, let’s jump into the article!
Here’s how to start a travel blog in 2024: