Bryan Cassidy is an avid adventure traveler who enjoys hiking, mountain biking and heli-skiing.  His travels have taken him to summits of snowy peaks within the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia, Canada, to the ancient remnants of Pompeii near the foot of Mount Vesuvius.

He's always felt that the more you travel, the more you realize how little you’ve seen.

Bryan is also the founder and author of Tourfolio, and an occasional guest blogger on several travel related websites.

You can follow Bryan on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/tourfolio

I’m assuming that a majority of travel writers are relying on their blogging platform and its built-in plugins to optimize articles for the best search engine results.
The problem with this method is that you are relying on automated code to guess the best target market.
For example, my article “5 Extreme Winter [...]

So why should we focus heavily on Google?
The answer is crystal clear considering that Google commands a 78% market share while its other major competitors (Yahoo! and Bing) only make up a combined 19% market share.
This is why all bloggers (including travel writers) should make it a priority to target the search engine [...]

Do you want your travel writings read by others with the hopes of having your articles published by a well-known travel media outlet?
What would happen if I told you that just writing content without strategically thinking of keywords could be hurting your opportunity for those dreams to come true?
The goal of this article [...]