The Travel Bloggers Guide to Dealing with Travel Blogging Groupies

Come on! We’re just waiting for you to throw your knickers at us…

Hangers on. Gold diggers. Bedpost notch carvers. Whatever you want to call them.  Groupies are the sure-fire sign of having made a mark in the travel blogging world.

They send us personal emails, harass us on Facebook and Twitter, even turn up at our doors late at night shimmering resplendently with metal chains in one hand and a whip in the other (OK, perhaps that was just mine).

But what is a man to do when a heavy-duty SEO task calls or a particularly odious keyword needs fitting in a contextual post for yet another measly amount? How do you tell said groupie to tone down the dirty talk, to lower their expectations of a rimming and instead get busy Stumbling and sharing your content? I mean you don’t want to disappoint the poor girls (or chaps, in my case) now do you?

Well, my friend, fear not. Just as dear old Man Vs Clock told me before, this truly is a “first world problem” after all. Groupies, just like their mothers before them, are a malleable old lot. Throw any of these techniques their way and you can sculpt them into the fine content-sharing harem of your dreams. Whether you accept their naughty advances of a boning in Beijing is completely up to you. I’m not advocating it (much). Read More »