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Copytrack Review – Copyright Infringement Tracking Good in Theory

Published by Jeremy. Last Updated on July 29, 2022.

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Copytrack is an image monitoring service that allows you to track your images online and file copyright violations on commercial entities that are using them without a license.

We've been members of Copytrack's service for quite some time, and now that we've had a few claims paid out, we wanted to walk you through what the experience is like.

So is Copytrack worth your time? We share our thoughts below!

MailerLite vs MailChimp – Which Newsletter Service is Best?

Published by Jeremy. Last Updated on October 30, 2020.

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In the many years of running our travel blog's newsletter, we never had an issue. We'd send out our weekly RSS email via MailChimp, get a nominal amount of clicks, and move on.

But as time ticked by and our subscriber count went up, so did our fees. Our local Pittsburgh blog contributed the most of this gain, and we realized we were days away from hitting the 10,000 subscriber limit that bumped our fees to $100/month- holy crap!

As our spending for the newsletters amounted to about $0.10 to $0.30 per click, we knew there had to be a better way. Do we delete inactive subscribers? Do we try and get better engagement? Do we switch services?

Enter MailerLite– the answer to all our questions. And in this MailerLite review I'm going to share how we became converts from MailChimp on Day 1.

BigScoots Review – Managed WordPress Hosting for Cheap

Published by Jeremy. Last Updated on October 23, 2020.

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We've been fans of Managed WordPress hosting for many years now and finally decided to change our host to BigScoots as a cost-saving measure. We had heard about this one for quite some time (all good things, naturally), and finally took the leap in early 2020 in order to see what they were all about.

As it turned out, it ended up being a great decision, and we're going to share more as to why that is in this BigScoots review!

GeneratePress Review – The Only WordPress Theme You Need

Published by Jeremy. Last Updated on October 23, 2020.

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I've worked on a half-dozen or so themes in my decade-plus blogging career, and I've finally settled on the one I'll be sticking with for the long run. This theme, the one you're seeing, is GeneratePress– one of the most customizable and fastest WordPress themes on the market today.

As I'm always seeking speed improvements for SEO goals, and I am just generally a nerd when it comes to optimization, it didn't take much more beyond hearing a few thumbs up from colleagues that GeneratePress is the way to go.

I bought access to the premium features, started a site design, and was blown away by both the functionality and the speed (and to be honest, I'm probably not even taking advantage of all the features, either!).

As such, I have a feeling I'll be sticking to this one for quite some time.

What Travel Affiliates Pay the Best? Data of Top Performers

Published by Jeremy. Last Updated on January 16, 2024.

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Travel affiliate programs are our second highest income stream, just behind CPM advertising with our private ad network Mediavine.

We made roughly $25,000 on travel affiliates in 2023 (or about $8 RPM on page views all-in). This includes on our global travel blog, Living the Dream, our local Pittsburgh blog, Discover the Burgh, and our wine blog with limited wine tourism content, The Grape Pursuit.

In this one, we wanted to share our highest-paying affiliate programs for our travel blogs and take a look into how we use them to make money, how much we make on each network, and what we do to promote them the best. As with everything, odds are good we are not the most optimized even though we have spent months, if not years testing out the placements for these programs.

It is likely you could have a travel blog that is virtually identical to ours and not have the same results (for better or for worse). All this post is meant to be is a collection of best affiliate programs that work for us, and our attempt to highlight why that is.