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Published on February 22nd, 2013 | by hoteldepot

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The 30 Top Travel Blogs in India in 2013

Being in the travel blogging business, I wanted to know how many travel blogs are thriving currently, who they were, how they host it, when they started blogging, how much they blog etc. So sat down today and by googling, reading various blogs, forums and manually checking comments of fellow bloggers, I came up with this list of the 30 top travel blogs in India in 2013.

This is not exhaustive, certainly not scientific, nor have I declared any one a winner. The tables headings are sortable and so click on them to sort any way you like.

Some findings and inferences:

To Be A Top Blogger (based on top 5 bloggers as per Alexa ranking)

  • Use WordPress
  • Blog at least 5.26 times a week
  • Be a woman!

General Observations:

  • 60 percent of bloggers are women. Cmon guys!
  • 66 percent of bloggers use Blogger/Blogspot. Understandably so as wordpress.com doesn’t allow Adsense on their hosted account.
  • Blogs with high PR all started between 2003 and 2005 except one. Lesson – start early.
  • Only one blog below the important 100,000  Alexa (Global) ranking!
  • The city with the highest number of bloggers? Bangalore of course!

 

The 30 Top Travel Blogs List 2013
Blog Blogger Name Platform PR Alexa Alexa India Post /Week First Post
India Travel & Photography Blog Arun Bhat Wordpress 5 287272 48400 1.2 2003
Travel Tales from India Mridula Wordpress 4 80175 16688 7 2005
Anuradha Goyal Travels Anuradha Goyal Blogspot 4 442779 33065 1.4 2004
A wandering mind Anu Shankar Blogspot 4 528116 55724 7 2007
Just a little Something Anita Bora Wordpress 4 944584 112360 0.2 2003
Windy Skies Anil P Blogspot 4 1635443 154540 0.7 2004
My Yatra Diary Arti Blogspot 3 267543 28433 1.2 2009
Enidhi India Shrinidhi Hande Blogger 3 247719 32301 4.2 2006
The Shootng Star Shivya Nath Wordpress 3 244944 37821 1.4 2008
A travel blog of an Indian Backpacker Lakshmi Blogspot 3 353455 40367 1.9 2005
Be On The Road Sankar CS Wordpress 3 153620 51681 10.7 2009
My India Rajesh Blogspot 3 515804 60035 -1 2007
My Travelogue Bhushavali Blogger 3 617752 63222 1.2 2009
The wandering soul’s wander tales Neelima Vallangi Blogger 3 679265 86286 0.9 2009
Travel Magic Magic Eye Blogspot 3 1078022 100079 -1 2007
i Share Indrani Ghose Blogspot 3 1152312 101521 4.7 2007
My Favourite Things Sudhagee Wordpress 3 610726 112786 -1 2010
Indian Bazaars Kiran Keswani Blogspot 3 2421320 226748 1.2 2006
The wanderer Siddhartha Joshi Blogger 3 1762745 999999 -1 2010
Shadows Galore Puru and Ekta Wordpress 2 159558 18637 3 2011
Itchy Feet Charukesi Wordpress 2 907753 82705 2.3 2003
Tales of a Nomad R Niranjan Das Blogspot 2 907753 85091 0.7 2009
India Backpack motorbike Venkat Ganesh Wordpress 2 676267 98393 -1 2011
Aalayam Kanden Priya Baskaran Blogspot 2 1249481 130881 0.5 2010
Huchchara Santhe Santosh BS Blogspot 2 1283828 151839 1.2 2008
Payana Arun Blogspot 2 1607740 191205 0.7 2011
Treks And travels Aravind GJ Blogspot 2 2001393 221929 -1 2006
A Journey to discover exotic and mystic places Kiran Blogspot 2 2608960 999999 0.5 2007
The Gal Next Door GalNextDoor Wordpress 2 2915283 999999 -1 2011
Climber & Explorer Anil Yadav Blogspot 2 3514951 999999 -1 2008

 

Notes:

  • The posts per week data was taken with the help of Google Reader, so I can’t vouch for the correctness.
  • Due to some issue on the timestamp for some of the feeds, the post per week data could not be calculated and hence I have put a negative value (-1)  for easy sorting.
  • Some of the blogs do not have a country specific Alexa ranking and hence I had to put it as 999999 for easy sorting.
  • I have excluded a lot of commercial travel blogs as I wanted this to be a purely a list of the independent personal bloggers.
  • I have included blogs which are written by Indians and about travel in India predominantly.
  • PR = Page Rank ( just something which Google conjured up. A high PR site doesnt necessarily mean the site is popular).
  • Alexa Ranking was noted on 21st Feb 2013. Note that Alexa takes into account only a minuscule percentage of the web junta.  Nonetheless, a good way to estimate the popularity of a site.
  • I did not put any page view stats as it is hard to get a proper estimate and I guess it would be too intrusive as well.
  • Most of the blogs using feedburner had subscribers count switched off, so it was useless to publish them.
  • Update: As one reader rightly pointed out – there are no blogs which are in Hindi. Would surely create a new post on Hindi travel blogs shortly.

Two important points at the end:

  1. I apologize to anyone who feels that I have linked or mentioned his/her post without due permission. Please feel free to contact me here if you want to remove your blog from this list.
  2. If anyone feels that his/her blog needs to be amongst this list or any data is wrong, contact me or just comment!

Ciao! And do what you do best – blog away!

 

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  • ओम आर्य

    where is the Hindi blog list?

    इसमें एक भी हिन्दी का ब्लॉग नहीं है क्या हिन्दी की अलग सूची है?

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Sorry about that. I did not include blogs in Hindi. My mistake. I will do another one on Hindi blogs exclusively. Thanks for this important point.

  • Murukesh

    “Lesson – start early.” Really, I hope I can time travel to do that :D :D

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      LOL. I just meant that if people wanted to start a blog, start right now and need not procrastinate!

  • http://www.shadowsgalore.com/ Puru

    First of all, a thousand thanks for your kind gesture. I am truly surprised, humbled and grateful for finding a mention here and this means a lot :) Other than that, thanks a lot for introducing some Travel bloggers about whom I was not aware out of my ignorance. It gives a great opportunity to me to explore the world through them … Once again, I am grateful to you :)

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Same here. That’s why I researched initially about Indian bloggers – to know how many were there and how much they blogged, etc. Happy blogging!

  • silent monk

    Good compilation.. However , according to me, a few good travel
    blogs have been left out. Of course, I don’t know your ranking criteria. I am
    talking about TWAC, travel with a couple, Lemonicks, devil on wheels , musafir
    hun yaaron. and a few more etc ….

    Also one has to be careful using Alexa ranking
    because a lot of people use blogging platform provided by third party (other
    than word press or blogger or blogspot) which has a very high Alexa rank
    and the same rank is reflected on individual blogs as well .

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Thank you silent monk for your suggestions. I would definitely check out these blogs. I would suggest others to also chip in with their recommendations as well.

      As for Alexa, I guess everyone knows that it can be easily be manipulated, but since this is probably the most common and easiest way to check a site’s popularity, I decided to mention the Alexa rankings. And obviously, data from compete or quantcast wont be available!

  • Indrani

    Quite an effort by you! Thanks! :)

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      You are most welcome Indrani!

  • Manish Kumar

    Nice effort. It was pleasant to see lot of my friends in the list. As for the point about Hindi blogs I feel that they should be clubbed along in the same list. After all the travel bloggers are bound by same passion i.e. their quest for travel & not by the language. I think many Hindi blogger’s will also find their way in this list by virtue of their Alexa rank.

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Thanks Manish for the suggestions. I will think about it (clubbing both together). But I believe a majority of blog readers would either read hindi blogs or english ones. Just my personal opinion and may not be the truth. What say?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=662442172 Manish Kumar

        A person who is enthusiastic about travel will read good content in any language he/she is comfortable with. Travel sites like Ghumakkar have gone bilingual many years ago & that has helped Hindi/ English travel blogging community to know and appreciate each other efforts much more. After all the aim of displaying such ranking is three fold : 1. To encourage the bloggers who are doing good & 2. To give readers a collection of best links related to travel spaces in one place. 3 To make aware bloggers about their co writers. That’s why I have given that suggestion.

  • http://twitter.com/Breathedreamgo Mariellen Ward

    It’s good to know about all these bloggers, and see some of my friends on the list!

    ps I blog about India, I’m a woman, but I don’t live in India.

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Yes Mariellen, I had seen your blog. You are quite active in the blogosphere. But I just did not list yours as not all criterias were met! :) But I could start one more list of non Indians blogging on India. There are a lot! Thanks for stopping by!

      • http://twitter.com/Breathedreamgo Mariellen Ward

        Thanks, I think it’s a good idea to do another list — or expand this one. There are a lot of “India lovers” who were not born Indian (but who perhaps wish they were :) — and we do a LOT to promote travel in India.

  • http://twitter.com/artisdiary Arti

    Thank you very much for including my blog in this travel list. It’s a huge honor to see my name amongst quality bloggers whom I have looked up to right from the very beginning. One blog which I can suggest to be in this list is Team G Square – http://teamgsquare.blogspot.com.

    You have done a great job in compiling this list, kudos to you! Much appreciated, thank you :)

    • http://www.hoteldepot.in/ hoteldepot.in

      Thanks for the suggestions Arti!

  • http://jidhujose.blogspot.in/ Jidhu Jose

    great

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  • Poorna

    Hi,

    While I don’t believe in lists, i wanted let you know that the data captured in not correct and the list seems to be false. You have left many blogs from the list which are higher than the ones listed by you. Maureen has already mentioned about hers. Please also take a look at our blog which ranks higher than many in this list though we do not have a personal domain name.

    For example our blog (http://journeys2remember.blogspot.com/) ranks higher at 3797491 in Alexa compared to PAYANA @ 19287541 and ALAYAM Kanden @ 24117125.

    Please take a relook at your analysis.

    • kartikey

      thanks poorna

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  • Nitin Malviya

    Kudos to you for this compilation! It captures the best of India’s travel bloggers. But I would like to point out two names who should have made it to this list very easily
    ~ Arnab Maity (arnabmaity.com) and Ankita Sinha (ankionthemove.com).

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  • http://www.shadowsgalore.com/ Puru

    I agree. Ankionthemove is a great travel blog and should be looked into

  • kiranpande

    Thanks for ranking my blog- A Journey to discover exotic and mystic places. I hope to do better. This post of your’s is Great!

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  • Shrinidhi Hande

    Appreciate the initiative and thanks for the mention

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  • Indi

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  • Sonali

    What about Travel Blog which has good original content, which guides, has pure effort and good rankings Travel India (www.aboutomkaar.com). It is not even in top 30 ????

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    you have done good research for getting all the blogger in India who write on travel

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  • http://thehikehouse.com/ TheHikeHouse

    Great article,very informative,never been in India but I read mostly good and excellent travel experience from my friends.

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