Adventures on four edges - this is how you report on your travels.

As an online store for luggage racks, roof rails and more, we know the travel preferences of many of our customers. Often, it's a case of setting off on an adventure with lots of luggage and sports equipment and enjoying the freedom of the open road for days and weeks on end. Whether alone or as a travel group - you can share your exciting tours with the whole world. We'll show you what to consider when planning your trip and how to report digitally on your travel event from the road.

Car tours - personal and global at the same time

For many people, their own car is more than just a means of getting to and from work. Equipping it with brand quality from our store is especially suitable for great travel adventures and special experiences. Whether gentle seat covers or roof racks for sufficient support, with our articles you can easily be a few weeks "on the road".

Such a travel adventure around the globe is always a personal experience full of unforgettable experiences. More than with a package tour, you will literally experience what makes the country and its people tick. In this age of smartphones and almost ubiquitous Internet access, it's all the more appealing to share these experiences with other people.

Formats such as travel blogs or your own website matching the tour also offer you attractive opportunities to report on your travels. And not just in the aftermath. Within seconds, photos of your tour are uploaded to social networks. And a compact travel report of the day can be written in a few minutes when you switch off in the evening.

The ideal equipment for your travel adventure

If you want to share your event with other people, plan your tour in detail and in a well thought-out way, and not just in terms of the vehicle. In addition to popular items such as roof racks, running boards or storage solutions for the interior, the technical equipment should fit your plans. Perhaps you will take a laptop instead of a cell phone, which will make it easier for you to write your little travel reports in the evening.

Also clarify how good the coverage with Internet is in the respective travel region. There does not necessarily have to be a WLAN connection everywhere. If a reasonably strong signal is available in a mobile network, the smartphone can be used as a hotspot. This replaces a WLAN router if you want to share your travel texts with the world. For uploading photos to Instagram & Co. the mobile network is sufficient anyway.

Your own travel blog? Or a website after all?

In addition to the technical equipment, plan early on the format in which you want to put your travel reports on the web. Depending on your commitment and time during your road trip, there are three options:

1. uploading your content to social networks such as Instagram or TikTok. Here, the main focus is on the impact of your pictures or small videos. Textual content in which you Sharing your thoughts while driving or information about places of interest tends to take a back seat.

2. you create a blog where you regularly add new articles with text and pictures. The format is ideal for a single trip and can function as a digital diary. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress were originally created with the blog idea in mind and can be used for your purposes without much programming knowledge.

3. you call your own website into being before your adventure tour. This is comparable to a blog and can also be realized with WordPress and similar CMS, for example. With a full-fledged homepage, the focus is on additional information, for example, if you want to report from the destination or your vehicle before your trip. In addition, the format is well suited to present multiple trips over time on a central, digital platform.

Don't just present the trip itself in an exciting way

Young travelers in particular are keen to share their experiences offroad or in foreign countries in a diary online. However, this kind of presentation does not have to be limited to the pure travel experience. Already in the run-up you have a variety of possibilities to develop the reader's desire for the trip. In this way, you ensure that the readership "stays on the ball" throughout the entire undertaking.

For example, show how you are preparing for the start of the trip. Maybe you show how you mount one of our roof racks or other equipment and get your vehicle ready for the journey. Or you can introduce your fellow travelers and show how you share all the tasks on tour.

It's also exciting to find out about the country and its people in advance. This applies all the more if you are heading for rather exotic destinations by vehicle. A safari through North Africa in your own vehicle offers significantly more exciting content in advance than your trip to the North Sea.

Attract new readers to your website

Of course, with all the engagement before and during your travels, you want to make sure you're not writing your articles just for yourself. If you have the security of knowing that people are visiting your blog or website every day, it's easier to motivate yourself to keep coming up with new content and topics. Especially for the first travel adventure, it's important to drum up a small readership in time.

Social media once again offer an entry point. Here you can tell friends and acquaintances about your plans and link your website or the blog that you have created explicitly for the travel experience. Automobile fans or travel friends who are in your contacts' circle of friends will become aware of this and are likely to be additionally won over as readers.

Also make sure that there is a newsletter function on your website or blog. Those who sign up as readers here will receive an email about your latest article if they wish. So no one misses your content and you have the good feeling that your Travel reports are perceived immediately after publication. A brief familiarization with the creation of newsletters should take place before the trip.

Gain additional attention through backlinks

To be found even better with your travel blog or website in the long run, good Google rankings are essential. In addition to a professional website design, backlinks pointing to your website will help. Relevance and size of the linking website to your own website play an important role here.

If you are ambitious and maybe even want to earn some money with your travel adventures, you should consider buying backlinks. This is possible through online agencies that have a large network of partners and websites where links to your website can be included. More information about this concept can be found here, supplemented by the possibility of contacting an experienced agency directly.

Even for private travel enthusiasts with a small budget, buying backlinks can increase traffic and readership noticeably. The investment is even more worthwhile if you have commercial plans for the website. Perhaps you don't want your travel experience to be a one-off, so you're thinking about sponsorship for future adventures. Here, your advertising partners will be happy to see a commitment in targeted backlink building.

Is it possible to earn money with a travel blog?

Basically, every web presence is suitable for generating income. Here, too, an online agency can advise you on how best to approach the topic and ensure more visitors through clever marketing. Revenues from your car travel website can be generated in many ways.

1. sponsoring

Whether it's cars, accessories or luggage, you'll be traveling with a variety of products from well-known brands and manufacturers on your tours. Provided your travel blog has a certain popularity, you will be lucky to get these manufacturers to partner with you in sponsoring your next tour.

2. online advertising

As part of Google's advertising network, you have the opportunity to earn money through ads placed on your site. Here, an agency helps set up and design the page so that relevant ads are displayed for your readership. The earnings come from a pre-determined interaction, such as when one of your readers clicks on an embedded ad.

3. revenue in social networks

If you upload images or videos to networks such as YouTube or Instagram in parallel with your blog, this could also bring you advertising revenue. For this, it is important that you have gained a certain number of subscribers. By doing this, the social media operators ensure that the ads they display have a reach minimum number of users. A source of revenue that becomes particularly interesting for established travelers.

Without digital media for travel pleasure

For all the opportunities that the digital world gives us when traveling and communicating with other people, you can consciously go the other way. Perhaps you would like to consciously use your travel experience with your own car for a time-out from everyday life with all its media. Leaving your laptop or smartphone at home here, or using them only rarely in your everyday life, can serve the recovery significantly.

So consider early on the reasons for which you are planning your travel adventure. Is it a classic vacation that you spend with your partner or family? Or do you love to share life's impressions with others and share them in the digital world as your second home? The important thing is: your trip should always focus on the experience itself, not the picture or text for your community.

Thrive frugally and consciously into your next outdoor adventure.

However you approach your road trip, the store at Germansell wishes you a great time and would like to make the start of your journey as easy as possible. Of course, this includes our high-quality equipment at attractive online prices. Our tip: Take a special look at products in our sale section to save extra before you start your trip.