I’m a few months off from the inevitable author navel-gazing that accompanies a blog’s birthday — my first post was February 2006, so there’s some time left before Family Travel’s one-year anniversary.
But I want to take this opportunity to note a few blogs that have really helped me along the way, and one very special one in particular.
Here are the authors and blogs that I look to for inspiration and guidance:
** Darren Rowse over at (or actually Down Under at) Problogger, for his professionalism and straightforward posts, especially advice for beginners. As long as we’re Down Under, I also like Yaro Starak’s thoughts on increasing your blog traffic.
** The Free Money Finance guy, who is a prolific poster and wrote this multi-part series on building and growing a blog.
** For blogosphere news, I check RSS feeds from The Blog Herald, the Bloggers Blog and Easton Ellsworth’s Business BlogWire. Hey, there’s a lot of news breaking out there; gotta keep up.
** Pam at BlogHer’s Travel section always has something well-written and cogent to say about both travel and the art of blogging.
But when I’m ready to really kick back, grab a cuppa joe and hang out with a blogging master (mistress?) there’s only one URL to visit….
ME “Liz” Strauss and her Successful Blog.