Write for us travel: 35 sites that accept guest posts
We found 35 travel sites that invite guest posts, all loaded live on October 31, 2026. Domain Rating runs from 20 to 77 with a median of 30, and 69% list an email.
travel sites
35
median DR
30
with public email
24
highest DR
77
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Showing 1-25 of 35 sites
Sites that accept guest posts, with Domain Rating and stated rules
Asks for 1,000+ words. Says links are dofollow. Do not send a completed article before the idea is accepted. Substantially AI-generated articles are not accepted.Checked
Asks for 500+ words. States publishing is free. At least 3 high-quality photos (10 for photo essays). Photos at least 1,000 pixels wide on longest side.Checked
Asks for 800+ words. Says links are dofollow. Also offers paid placements. Photos with clear credits. Promotional links to third party companies are not accepted.Checked
Asks for 500+ words. States publishing is free. Stories and photos must be original and grammatically correct. Send story in Word and JPG photos in one email.Checked
35 sites match your other filters. Select a bar to filter the table to that DR band. Select it again to clear.
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Marketplace totals as of October 30, 2026. Placements are paid for with credits and go in as followed links, without nofollow. Google's policy on paid links, quoted below, applies to every paid followed link. Run a site? Sell placements on it.
Pitch email builder
Write your guest post pitch in one minute
Fill in the fields and the email updates as you type. Press Pitch on any row above to load that site. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
The default. Use it for any site that asks you to pitch before writing.
Your pitch, live
Subject: Guest post idea for [their site]: [article title]
Hi there,
I read your guest post guidelines on [their site] and I have one idea for your readers:
[article title][one line: what the reader gets that their site does not cover yet]
I write about this at [your site]. Here is a recent piece so you can see how I write: [link to a piece you published]
I will follow your word count and link rules. Would you like a full draft?
Thanks,
[your name]
3 guest post pitch examples
These are the three templates in the builder. Replace the brackets, keep it short and send one follow-up. Backlinko's study found one follow-up lifts replies by 65.8%.
Short cold pitch
The default. Use it for any site that asks you to pitch before writing.
Subject: Guest post idea for [their site]: [article title]
Hi there,
I read your guest post guidelines on [their site] and I have one idea for your readers:
[article title]
[one line: what the reader gets that their site does not cover yet]
I write about this at [your site]. Here is a recent piece so you can see how I write: [link to a piece you published]
I will follow your word count and link rules. Would you like a full draft?
Thanks,
[your name]
Data-led pitch
Use it when you have your own numbers. Editors can get opinions anywhere.
Subject: New data for [their site] readers: [article title]
Hi there,
I have data your readers have not seen, and I would like to publish it with you first.
Working title: [article title]
[one line: what the reader gets that their site does not cover yet]
The piece would include the numbers, how we collected them and what a reader should do next. The article is free to publish and written only for [their site].
A sample of my writing: [link to a piece you published]
More about me: [your site]
Is this a fit? I can send the outline today.
[your name]
Follow-up
Send it once, about a week later, as a reply to your first email.
Subject: Re: Guest post idea for [their site]: [article title]
Hi there,
A short follow-up on my idea for [their site]: [article title]
[one line: what the reader gets that their site does not cover yet]
If it is not a fit, a one-word no is fine and I will not write again. If the angle is close, tell me what would work better for your readers and I will rework it.
Thanks,
[your name]
What the data says
135 travel sites passed every check on October 31, 2026. The median Domain Rating is 30, and 9 sites are DR 50 or higher.
224 of them (69%) publish a contact email on the guidelines page. 4 more use a submission form.
325 state a minimum length. The median minimum is 800 words.
44 state a link rule: 3 say dofollow, 1 say nofollow, 0 mark links as sponsored and 0 allow no promotional links. The rest say nothing we could verify.
5The strongest are Intrepid's The Good Times (DR 77), Life in Italy (DR 60), Travel Fashion Girl (DR 60). Median estimated organic traffic is 26,414 visits a month.
60 charge a fee, 3 offer a paid route beside the free one and 6 pay their contributors.
Guest posting guide
How to get your guest post accepted
1Pick sites your readers already visit
Filter by niche first, then DR. High DR with no audience is a warning sign, so we dropped sites with almost no organic traffic: under 100 estimated visits a month, under 300 at DR 30+ and under 1,000 at DR 50+.
2Read the guidelines, then follow them exactly
Word count, link limits and pitch format are on the page. 25 of the sites here state a minimum, with a median of 800 words. Editors use these rules as a quick filter.
3Check what they have already published
Search the site for your topic before you pitch. Offer an angle they have not covered and say so in one line.
4Pitch one idea, in under 150 words
Only 8.5% of 12 million outreach emails got a reply in Backlinko's study, and personalized messages got 32.7% more. Name the site and the idea, and link one sample.
5Follow up once, a week later
One follow-up lifted replies by 65.8% in the same study. Then move on to the next site.
6Earn the link, do not lead with it
Write for the reader first. Link to a source that helps, use plain anchor text and never offer money for a link in a free guest post.
Google does not ban guest posts. Its target is links made to manipulate rankings. Google's spam policy lists this as an example of link spam:
Advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that include links that pass ranking credit, or links with optimized anchor text in articles, guest posts, or press releases distributed on other sites.
The same policy explains when paid links are fine:
Google does understand that buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web for advertising and sponsorship purposes. It's not a violation of our policies to have such links as long as they are qualified with a rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored" attribute value to the <a> tag.
In plain terms: if money, goods or services changed hands for a link, Google wants it marked rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow". Google's guide to qualifying outbound links explains each value. In this database, 0 sites charge a fee and 3 offer a paid route. Those show a note in the table so you can spot them.
Quoted from Google Search Central, page last updated August 28, 2026, checked October 31, 2026. Paid guest posts also have a market price: BuzzStream reports an average of $295 bought direct and $461 through a vendor (study, updated June 15, 2026).
How we checked this (October 31, 2026)
We ran 128 Google searches across 16 niches, such as "write for us" technology and health "guest post guidelines", and collected 1,831 domains.
We looked up Domain Rating for each one. 1,366 reached DR 20 or higher. DR comes from a third-party SEO API that reports an Ahrefs-style 0 to 100 score. Traffic is DataForSEO's worldwide organic estimate. Both are estimates for the whole domain, so a large publisher's section can look bigger than it is.
On October 31, 2026 a crawler loaded each site and its guidelines page. 674 had no open page inviting outside writers: no such page, submissions closed, members only, academic journals or link lists. 197 failed quality checks: parked or expired domains, gambling, adult or hacked content, link sellers, link farms and sites with almost no traffic. 196 blocked our crawler or would not load, so we left them out rather than guess.
An AI model read each page and pulled out the rules, and a script kept a rule only when its source sentence appears word for word on the page. We then opened 40 sites at random in a browser, removed the 5 that did not hold up and tightened the checks. A note means the page says it, not that we tested it by submitting. 278 sites remain.
We are not affiliated with these sites and being listed is not an endorsement. Sites change their rules, so read the guidelines before you pitch. Download everything as a free CSV, no email needed. Looking for something else? Try our directory list, how to build backlinks or what backlinks are.
A guest post site is a website that publishes articles written by outside authors, usually with a byline and a link back to the author. Most list their rules on a "write for us" or contributor page.
How many travel guest post sites are on this list?
35, all at DR 20 or higher and all checked live on October 31, 2026. The median Domain Rating is 30. We did not pad the list, so sites that failed a check are not here.
Are these guest post sites free?
Most do not ask for money. On this list, 0 charge a fee, 3 offer a paid route beside a free one and 6 pay their contributors. The list itself is free, and the CSV needs no email.
How do I contact these sites?
24 of 35 publish an email on the guidelines page, and 4 use a form. Use the Has email filter, or press Pitch on a row to load the site into the pitch builder.
How long should a guest post be?
Follow the site's rule. Across the 25 sites here that state a minimum, the median is 800 words.
Is guest posting against Google’s rules?
Not by itself. Google’s spam policy targets links exchanged for money, goods or services that pass ranking credit, and links with optimized anchor text in guest posts distributed on other sites. Paid links should use rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow".
Do guest posts give dofollow links?
Only some say so. On this list, 3 sites state dofollow, 1 state nofollow and 0 mark links as sponsored. 31 do not state a rule we could verify, so ask before you write.
Should I use a guest posting service instead?
It depends on your time and budget. Doing it yourself is free but slow: cold outreach gets a reply about 8.5% of the time. Services charge per placement, and BuzzStream reports an average of $461 per guest post through a vendor. We make Outrank, whose marketplace places links for credits; those are paid links, so read Google's policy above first.
How often is this list updated?
Every site shows its last checked date, currently October 31, 2026. We rerun the same script to refresh it, which removes sites that stop passing.
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