Travel Blog Starter Kit — Launch & Monetize

A practical starter kit for launching a travel blog, written for a genuine beginner. Inside: choosing a niche narrow enough to stand out, setting up a domain, hosting and WordPress without vendor endorsements, building essential site pages including privacy, cookie and affiliate disclosure pages, writing posts using Google’s own published SEO guidance, keeping the site fast with practical photo and Core Web Vitals advice, building an email list correctly, and a full monetisation chapter covering affiliate links, display advertising, digital products and services alongside the ASA, CAP and FTC disclosure rules that apply to each. A dedicated chapter covers GDPR, cookies and tax registration basics using official EU, UK and US sources. Closes with a realistic ninety-day launch plan and a sources chapter linking every official reference used. Delivered as a clickable PDF with a full contents list, last updated September 2026, for personal use. No income, traffic or ranking promises are made anywhere in the guide.