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Some Geeky Traveller News

As you may know, I also run a site called Geeky Traveller. I launched it 367 days ago. I recently decided to seek membership in Jeremy’s blogging network cum empire. Why? I wanted to:

  • Motivate myself to write more often on the site.
  • Increase the site’s relatively meagre visitor totals.
  • See if there’s more money to be made from the site through advertising.

So I’m pleased to announce that Geeky Traveller is now a member of the b5 Media network. What does that mean to readers? Nothing, really, except that there might be a few more of you.

For the same reasons, a couple of months back I accepted an invitation to add Geeky Traveller to BlogBurst’s syndicated travel blogs. Now Geeky Traveller’s content (along with a bunch of other travel blogs) gets syndicated to a little box on the travel pages of newspaper sites like the San Francisco Gate and the Austin-American Statesman. BlogBurst hasn’t brought me many new visitors or much cash yet, but it’s early days and I don’t see a downside to syndicating the content this way.

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Darren Barefoot is an author, speaker and digital strategist. He’s the co-founder of Capulet Communications, and co-author of “Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook”.

8 comments

  1. Darren – what’s to stop someone from syndicating your content and NOT offering any sort of compensation? Is there a way to determine where a feed is being ported to?

    (Forgive my ignorance on this)

  2. Jeff: Nothing, really. There are some sites which claim to help you identify content thieves (none spring to mind at the moment, but they’re out there). However, even if you identify them, how are you going to stop them?

  3. Hey Darren,
    I stopped someone from stealing my content by filing Google DCMAs.

  4. I suppose one could disable the feed for awhile? But yeah – I see your point. I wonder if there is much of that going on.

  5. Once you identify them, we (b5) get them to remove the content or get them shut down for DMCA violations. We do it just about weekly now.

  6. Jeremy! Aren’t you the guy who used to do Wealthy Blogger? That was a great blog until it was sold. So odd how it just faded away after that.

  7. The last four words of the hyperlinked phrase beginning with “Jeremy’s” need hyphens. Otherwise, I think you’re saying something different than you intended.

  8. Jeff: Yeah I am. It was an awful situation. The buyer bought it and then simply never claimed it. After a year we simply relaunched it and sold it again.

    Sucked to see such a great resource die though 😦

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