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Which Travel Writing Conference Is Right for Me?

With so many travel writing conferences, it’s difficult to know where to start. Isabel Eva Bohrer helps determine which is right for you.

Win 250 Die-Cut Business Cards for Your Travel Blog!

This giveaway is now closed. Thanks to everyone who entered! Looking to promote your travel blog in the “real world”? Online printing services pro UPrinting.com has been so kind as to offer a free pack of 250 die-cut business cards for one lucky travel blogger! To enter to win, simply: Follow @vagabondish on Twitter Tweet: [...]

Twitter for Travelers: Tweeting Your Way To A Terrific Trip

Amanda Kendle reveals a few great ways for travelers to get the most out of Twitter.

Travel Blogging 101: What Makes A Great Travel Blog?

Isabel Eva Bohrer takes us back to Travel Blogging 101 to explore the essential elements of a great travel blog.

Introducing: The ‘Reswizzle My Travel Blog!’ Twitter Contest

We’ve launched our most ambitious Twitter giveaway ever. Introducing the Reswizzle My Travel Blog! contest. The contest is open now and crazy simple to enter: Follow @Vagabondish on Twitter Retweet: “Just entered to win an amazing redesign of my #travel blog! Follow @Vagabondish and RT to win http://bit.ly/reswizzle“ That’s it! If you’re tired of blog [...]

10 of The More or Less Sexiest Airline Commercials Ever

© rick On Monday our friends at Gadling indulged in a little of what we in the biz like to call “link baiting,” posting videos under the SEO-friendly title “Ten of the sexiest commercials in airline history.” The list isn’t exactly filled with gems, and to get up to 10 they had to include some [...]

You Can Write for ‘Travel + Leisure’ Southeast Asia

We just received an e-mail from a kind soul at Travel Blog Exchange that we thought worth passing along. Travel + Leisure are launching a new online venture targeting Southeast Asia and are looking for expert writers/bloggers with local knowledge: Hi, Got informed by Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia magazine (inc Hong Kong and Macau) [...]

China to Permit Athlete Blogging at Beijing Olympics

China’s backing of inaction against Sudan hasn’t left the Olympics untouched – Steven Spielberg, a former artistic consultant for the Beijing Olympics, decided to sever his ties with the Games in protest against China’s backing of the regime. To add to this, athletes from several countries have set up a Team Darfur to protest against [...]

Brave New Traveler Makes Good on Their Promise: Booze, Nudity and More Booze

Congrats to BraveNewTraveler.com for reaching 1,000 RSS subscribers (what’s RSS?) and for making good on their promise of celebrating in the best way they know how: booze and nudity. Without a doubt, the best video the BNT crew has ever posted. Here’s to another 9,000 subscribers! (And if you haven’t already, I highly recommend subscribing [...]

Won’t You Be Our Neighbor?

Hi neighbor! Just a quick repost of the info below to let you know where you can find Vagabondish on several of the web’s most popular social content/networking sites … If you’re a member of any of these communities, feel free to add us as a friend. Digg: vagablogger de.licio.us: Vagablogger Technorati: Add to Technorati [...]

Ahoy, Bloggers! Carnival’s Blogger’s Cruise to Set Sail

Carnival has announced the first blogger’s cruise. A group of 700 readers who regularly follow Carnival Freedom Cruise Director John Heald’s blog, set sail for the Caribbean this week. Heald’s humorous blog is full of self deprecating humor and snippets of cruise life (including difficult guests who insist their booking included a plate of caviar [...]

Your Vote Counts: What’s the Best Travel Blog of 2007?

What was your favorite travel blog of 2007? No less than a dozen or so great blogs emerged in the travelsphere over the past year. Performancing.com is letting readers have their say and pick their favorites. Unfortunately today’s the last day to vote. Sorry for the short notice. You’ll still vote for us though as [...]

Keeping a Travel Blog Your Friends Will Love to Read

Amanda discusses her golden rules for writing an online travel diary that your friends will be glad to follow.

Lookin’ for Love in All the Web’s Places

A few e-mails have been rolling in asking where Vagabondish can be found on social bookmarking sites. So I’d like to extend the invitation to anyone interested in “friending” or otherwise “favoriting” us (and vice-versa) on the site’s below: Digg: vagablogger de.licio.us: Vagablogger Technorati: Add to Technorati Favorites If you have a blog and would [...]

A Dashing New (and Free) WordPress Theme for Your Travel Blog

Chris Pearson over at Pearsonified just released a snazzy new WordPress theme, available free for download via his website. The Neoclassical theme is simple, yet elegant, and features a huge rotating header image that you can easily customize with your favorite travel photos. Check out the blog demo in action here.

On the Strange Ways People Find Us (October 2007)

We finally cracked the 2000 mark for comment spam. Another life-long goal checked off! In other news, October was another interesting month in the land of search and the means people use to find this blog. The top five few keyword highlights from the last 31 days: naked pumpkin: I’m going to be charitable and [...]

A Bit of Fall Housekeeping

Autumn’s in the air and the leaves they are a-fallin’ here in New England. I tried to fashion a metaphor that vividly compares the maturing of Vagabondish to the turning of the fall foliage. Alas, I came up empty. (I’ll blame it on my slow recovery from an all-weekend victory celebration of the Red Sox [...]

Maya Angelou on Blogging

Via WhyGo: You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. – Maya Angelou If there’s one golden rule of successful blogging, this is it. And of [...]

Vagabondish Is Evolving

Lately I’ve been hashing out a few ways to evolve this blog with specific issues and goals in mind …

$125 Travel Writing Contest

Just a quick note that Michael over at Traveling-Stories-Magazine.com sent me an e-mail to announce a $125 travel writing contest he’s hosting. What does it take to enter and win? Simply put, it takes a great, well written story. Some of your own promotion about your story always helps such as telling your friends, linking [...]

On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog (August 2007)

It’s been a while since I last did this little recap and it appears my blog continues to draw the freaky freaks out of the search engine woodwork. By far the most popular search term was some variation on “man vs. wild fraud”. That little flap evidently set the blogosphere all atwitter. But that’s not [...]

Must-Have WordPress Plugin: Better Comments Manager

On John Chow’s recommendation, I installed the WordPress Better Comments Manager plug-in. It’s fantastic! It allows you to reply to comments via WP’s admin panel, among other things. Very easy to use and a must-have for any of my fellow WP bloggers!

Thankfully, Most Travelers Are Not “Passive-Aggressive, Self-Loathing, Loser Fucktards”

If you happen to be reading this at work, my apologies for the PG-13 headline. Seriously though, you shouldn’t be reading this. Get back to work. The ever humorous gapingvoid.com blog had a post entitled “Why We’re All Blogging Less”. Reason number 4: Believe it or not, some of us have better things to do [...]

Ever Wonder Who’s Really Linking to Your Blog?

I thought I’d throw this little blogging tip out there … If you’re a rather vain chap like myself, you might be interested in finding all the folks that are linking back to your blog (and probably talking about you too!). The “Incoming Links” section in the WordPress admin console isn’t always 100% accurate. Check [...]

Odd Traffic Patterns: On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog, Part 2

As a follow-up to last month’s On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog, I decided to round up the top 5 search phrases folks are using to find my site over the past week. Things just keep getting stranger: “things to try before you die”: Fair enough, but Google’s just barely missing the mark [...]

Question for Bloggers: Who Gives A Bleep About Comments?

Since burning my feeds a couple months ago, I’ve noticed a real disproportionate number of folks signing up for my regular blog feed versus those signing up for my comments RSS feed. It’s like a 100-to-1 ratio. I’m wondering if I’m not promoting the comments feed well enough or do people just not really care [...]

How To Pimp Your WordPress Admin Panel

This was a bit of a surprise to me: apparently you can trick out, not only your blog’s front-end, but your WordPress admin panel as well. Check out WP Tiger Administration. From their blog: The current default WordPress administration area is functional, but I felt it could be improved. For several reasons, I didn’t want [...]

12 Reasons to Ditch Internet Explorer Forever and Make the Switch to Firefox

Still using Internet Explorer to browse the web? You’re missing out! If you have your own blog, you read other blogs, you’re a traveler, or any combination of the three, you should be using Firefox. Here are twelve great reasons why: The Resizable Textarea plugin makes blogger’s and blog reader’s lives a hell of a [...]

Life As A Travel Blogger (A Web Comic)

The Tranquilo Traveler points us to this spot-on web comic about life as a travel blogger/photographer/etc. I think it’s a funny, but true reminder of how not to travel. Don’t experience your travels from behind your camera’s viewfinder. And don’t think of every experience in terms of how you’ll write about it later. As someone [...]

WP Plugin: The Solution to Commenters Who F’ Up Your Blog’s Layout

OK, to be fair, most commenters don’t intentionally f**k up your blog’s layout. But if you allow folks to post URLs in their comments, you might have noticed that super long URLs can really jack up your site’s layout. I just found a nifty WordPress plugin that curbs this little annoyance. Check out WPChunk. See [...]

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