How to get links

Some examples of getting links from high-quality travel sites:

* Write an honest review of a great product
* Offer free useful advice via Twitter
* Write interesting high quality articles like this
* Interview people and write it up nicely
* Keep putting stuff on your blog. Sooner or later someone will find it sufficiently interesting and relevant to link to it.
* Feature experts' recommendations on your blog then watch them link back to your post.

And there are so many more...

Experiment

I'm doing an experiment on a Flickr page. It's an image of the Maldives I took a couple of years back. A very nice place for beach holidays in April when the weather at home is likely to be pretty dire.

Telegraph

As an old Sunday Times hand, this hurts a bit to say but I saw the Telegraph's Saturday travel section a couple of times recently and I have to say it's pretty good. Nice and visual, lots of good quality writing and some neat incorporation of reader comments and recommendations. Which reminds me, must get a nice link in the Telegraph for 101.

Joining up

One of the best travel inspiration websites - leaving aside 101 Holidays for second - is World Reviewer. The concept is excellent and it has managed to get together a good team of experts to provide some solid content. So I've decided to become an expert on the site and see how it goes. I'll have a think about what to review and start uploading some stuff.

Google Profile

One of the things that does my head in is the number of pages about me that I am supposed to maintain. I was reminded that I have a Google Profile page which hadn't been updated for years and looked incredibly naff - like I was trying to big myself up. So I updated it a bit, hopefully now it's a bit less w*nky. Oh, and also I pulled my finger out and wrote a page about where is hot in November for a holiday. Next one December. Ho hum.

June honeymoon?

If you're planning to get married in the summer, you can get some great information from Jane Anderson about the best honeymoon destinations in June. Also today 101 Holidays has joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Know Before You Go campaign.

We all want cheap

Tour operators may not like it, but a lot of people search for "cheap", even if they end up paying more than they originally plan. In fact, it seems that many people put in the word cheap when searching even if they're not *actively* looking for bargains. Maybe just a habit. Any, I guess that's part of the explanation for this cheap holidays page. And partly because some people really *are* looking for cheap. Got that?

Airline adventure site

This is a nice initiative by an airline. I love adventure is a social sharing site set up by Air Greenland. Nice format, could do with a bit more content, but great idea that matches with the destination it's promoting.