Want to keep blogging without giving up after a few months? Here are 15 practical rules from a travel blogger on consistency, content, SEO, updating old posts, and staying motivated. No hype — just real experience.
(If you’ve already started — it’s too late to escape)
Starting a blog is easy. Keeping a blog alive? That’s where most people quietly disappear after 3 months and pretend it never happened.
I run several travel blogs, and I’ve gone through all stages of evolution:
🟣 “This is exciting!” → 🟡 “Why isn’t anyone reading?” → 🔴 “Isn’t it easier to quit?”
After years of trial and error, I finally know what keeps a blogger going — when motivation, time and confidence keep trying to exit the chat.
These rules come from my own scars, upgrades, failures and wins. They don’t guarantee success — but they absolutely reduce the chances of giving up halfway.
🔥 Rules That Keep You in the Blogging Game
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A blog is not passive income.
Write once and get rich forever? Cute idea. Not reality. -
Make time for your blog.
Preferably daily. A couple of focused hours beat “when I feel like it.” -
It’s hard to sit on two chairs forever.
Balancing a full-time job and a blog works only short-term. A decision point will come. -
Pick a niche, a platform, and a goal from day one.
Niche-hopping drains a year or two of growth. Easily. -
Write what you genuinely know.
Readers smell fakes faster than Google does. -
Always verify information.
Especially in travel blogging — rules change faster than cheap flight prices. -
Update your old posts.
Sometimes a facelift brings more traffic than a brand-new article. -
Read other blogs in your niche.
It’s your radar. No radar — wrong direction. -
Learn the tech basics.
Something will break. It’s not “if”. It’s “when”. -
Use social media as your first gear.
Search engines need time to trust you. Instagram/Facebook give the initial push. -
There’s no perfect post format.
Long read or short tip — both can win if they’re valuable. -
Write it yourself.
Hired content looks like hired content. Readers feel the voice mismatch immediately. -
SEO matters — but balance it.
Google loves helpful content, not robotic keyword stuffing. -
Be consistent.
Best rhythm: 2–3 posts a week.
Too rare = forgotten. Too often = burned out. -
Be useful above all.
People read what helps them. Entertainment is a bonus — value is the base.
🚫 What NOT to Do
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Expect income in the first months
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Copy others and hope nobody notices
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Disappear for half a year and come back like nothing happened
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Spend weeks redesigning the website instead of writing
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Compare yourself to bloggers with 10 years of experience
A blog grows like a plant:
if you don’t water it, it’s not a plant problem — it’s a gardener problem.
Tell me in the comments:
👉 Which mistake did you make first? 😄
Join the journey — slow and steady wins in blogging more often than “overnight success”.
Useful links:
- Hotel Booking — Booking.com
- Flight tickets — Aviasales
- Car rental — Local Rent
- Travel insurance — Hotline Finance
