Below is a list of the top 50 travel blogs for the 1st quarter (January — March) of 2016 ranked by visitor traffic.This list is based solely on the number of visitors a travel blog receives.
50 popular travel blogs with high traffic
Here is the full list of the blogs. It is based on a traffic analysis conducted on the website SimilarWeb.com. It’s a great traffic comparative website. There is a limited free access that helps to understand the basic numbers.
Don’t take SimilarWeb data as a bible but just as an indication, unless the website is directly connected to Google Analytics (this is usually stated in bold characters).
I have NO AFFILIATION with SimilarWeb. I like it as a tool and it is currently used by some major companies as Travelocity, Google, PlayBuzz, KPMG, eBay and UBS
Where the travel blog traffic comes from
Please note that travel blogs may be seasonal. For example if a travel blog has most of the posts on Philippines than the website may experience less traffic during the rainy season as the country does not have that many visitors.
I took a sample of 50 blogs with a considerable amount of page views. The list below has not a particular order. The most important thing was to have an understanding of the business model than a comparison between websites.
I have added also a column with the niche of the travelling blog. However this niche does not have a real demarcation; as an example, a blog may start as a Cheap travelling/Backpacking but it may evolve into a a different niche or a more general one. Sometime because we grow up and tend to do different things, other times because there is a limit to the niche you talk about.
Is there a winner niche? No, there is not. Do you need to have a niche to have more traffic? Based on this data, not really, this is a bit of a myth. There are 18 travel blogs out of 50 that can actually be categorised as general ones. I personally think that a niche may help in the beginning of the travel blogging life.
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