I had TikTok for about 2 weeks in 2022 then deleted it 😆 Although I didn't put much on there so it wasn't a big deal for me. Twitter becoming 💩 was annoying though as there was a great travel community, but I guess here is a fresh start. Some people seem to be leaving FB and IG too 😯

I will take a look! Thanks 😁

I think it will be a mix of city travel and hiking, with some road trips. It is difficult because I don't have an exact niche, like some people who like cities hate hiking I guess.

It has already been offline for about a year, I think even the domain has expired on bluehost. I was hoping to make a much more optimized site (within what I know). My initial site was basically an evolution of me writing travel stories for myself in 2019, so there was minimal thought into SEO.

2/2 guess it's also about showing my personal impressions as a blogger as compared to the more wide-ranging 'ultimate guides' to a place.

Not sure I find it hard to focus on just one thing, maybe I should spend more time on a specific thing on my trips. I find it hard to cover e.g. food or accommodation, as I feel I need to have experienced the thing, like you said in your guide, and I am limited in what I can see in 1 trip, but I 1/2

Not sure what I would call it, I did have an ask around on Twitter a year or two ago, but couldn't find much better than my current name, although I guess it's not mindblowing. I think I will do the fresh start then if you reckon that would work better. I have the old pages saved as documents 😊

Looks quite cool the tank you went in! I went to one in someone's converted garage (it was very professional, looked great, very clean etc not like I'm making it sound 😆), it's an interesting experience for sure!

Yes I was thinking of doing that, I had always heard the advice that starting afresh was terrible, but I also assumed that was based on people already having a decent performing site with lots of backlinks, DA etc, which I don't think mine had. I guess its not even there now though 🤷‍♂️

2/2 pages, but there is quite a lot of 404 pages and pages I can't seem to index properly, so just wonder if its worth starting afresh

I don't know, they had vaguely SEO titles like 'How to x in x' but not sure they would be keywords which my low DA site could get traction with. After kind page+SEO help from you, and others incl @solotravelstory.bsky.social @rjontouruk.bsky.social I did see some more views & clicks for the 1/2

2/2 in mind but I did start doing more SEO with the kind help of several people in this community (who fled Twitter). Would it be better to just start afresh with a good base of SEO and only helpful pages? Or is that worse than restarting a flawed page?

Woolacombe is amazing, went on a surfing and hiking trip there 🏄‍♂️✨️

Yeah I did wonder if that was why it wasn't banned, as I made it just after he announced his 'allow everything, copy Elon Musk etc BS speech'. Maybe should just can it, just thought it might bring in some extra views but doesn't seem to really.