We are looking for guest posts from great travel writers

At Snaptrip, we try hard to be the go-to source of information for anyone looking to make the most of the UK. We’re proud to be the home of hundreds of entertaining and informative articles that have helped thousands of holidaymakers turn their trips from fine to fantastic. 

Now, we’re looking for help from you. We’re searching for talented travel writers who are ready to have their work seen by thousands. All you need is something to say and to say it well. 

What are we looking for?

If you’re writing about travel, we’ll probably be interested. If you’re wondering whether you’re writing has a place on our site, have a look round at the things we’ve published. As a general guide, we’re big fans of travel stories, destination guides (be it for a tiny Yorkshire village, or the whole of Scotland), and activity guides (be it for Kew Gardens or a run-down of your local pub).

If you’re unsure if we’ll be interested in something before you write it, shoot us a message, and we can let you know. One thing to keep in mind is we’d like your writing to be about your own experiences and judgements and be at least 1,000 words long. 

Why choose to write for us?

Why write for us? In short, because you’ll be seen. We get over 40,000 unique visitors a month, more than ten times what the average, established travel blog can expect to see. That’s at least 1,300 chances, every single day, for someone to fall in love with your writing.

What’s more, we’ll give you an author’s bio, and link back to your other work and travel blogs. A permanent link from one of the UK’s most trusted and successful holiday sites will massively increase your chances of finding new readers and, who knows, maybe a few die-hard fans.

Bear in mind, we will quality-check our posts.

As with every outlet that publishes people’s writing, be it a newspaper or a cottage site, we’ll quality check all the content you send before publishing. There’s a chance that we’ll get back to you and ask for a few changes before we put it on our site, but this usually only happens for grammatical errors, and if you’ve written something a little rude.

If you’ve got high-quality pictures, that’d be great.

If you’ve got experience writing online, you’ll know, every post needs images. Ideally, alongside your over-1000 word article, you’ll send us four, high-quality photos that you have the right to publish. They’ll need to be at least 1000 pixels wide, as this is the size we upload them at.

This can be another opportunity for you to get your skills as a creative out into the world. Take the images yourself, and we’ll credit you as a photographer. Remember that images are always a desired commodity, and we might get messages from other travel sites asking if they’re allowed to use your pics.

However, while we’d love it if you could send us some images of your own, we do have a database full of pictures. If it’s a choice between you sending us an article without pics, and not sending us an article at all, we’d rather you did the first one.

Send us a writer’s bio, alongside your article.

Alongside your article, we’ll want a short ‘about the author’ snippet to put at the bottom of the page. Two of three sentences is all we need here, plus a link to your personal website. Not only does this add credibility to the article and make it appear higher on search engines, but can do wonders for increasing your profile as an author.

We want being published on Snaptrip to boost your career, and getting your name out there is part of that. Our readers will know who you are and if you’ve done a good job entertaining them, who to search for, the next time they want quality travel tales. You can also include up to two links to any of your social media profiles, and any other places that your article could be shared.

Keep in mind…

We can’t wait to hear from you, but please keep in mind that submissions from companies or persons looking to guest post for commercial reasons (just to get a back-link to a commercial website not owned by you, the writer) won’t get a response, unless you make your intentions clear from the start.

Now go get writing!

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