Adame
The free giveaway websites might land you some traffic, but I highly suspect it will give you any kind of SEO boost.
When it comes to SEO, there are two main things that really help you rank:
– Quality, original, and relevant content to your niche.
– Relevant and genuine backlinks from relevant websites (in your case, travel-related website and blogs).
There are other factors, like having a fast and responsive website, for example, but the content and the backlinks are the most crucial to the process.
And even if you got these right, the process takes few months before starting to see real measurable results.

Truslow
I think you've approached it wrong. I know that's not the news you want to hear, but… let's look at it a bit and see if we can land on something.
You've got a Traveler's Coffee Kit – something for being able to make (presumably) good coffee when you're not at home. The important thing here is the "Coffee Kit" – but the site you've built is about Traveling.
I get your reasoning here – it makes perfect sense. People who travel are the target audience because those who are on the road are the ones who need a way to get good coffee when on the road. If they are reading and interested in your travel article, you've qualified them as a potential customer for your product and now you can convert them to a sale. Great logic – it makes sense and should work.
The flaw is that "Travel" is one of (if not the absolutely) the most competitive SEO niches on the web. You're competing against juggernauts who spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to compete in this field. I work for a small company/team of web marketers/developers/designers and we'd never even attempt to do a travel site for a client – we just don't have the resources to be able to properly do the job they need. Trying to do so on your own with limited knowledge about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and all that would be even more impossible.
My advice would be to turn it around. Your focus is "coffee kits" (which happen to be useful for travelers) and not "travelers" who might be interested in a coffee kit. I'd probably keep the idea of your stories of travel – but organize them in appropriate niches that people may have… "Coffee kits for… people on the road for work, people on vacation, people camping/in the wilderness, etc. etc.
Play up your "not for profit" and what you are doing with the proceeds too. People love that stuff. It's a great angle to leverage.
What you've got there is the right idea – it's just sort of upside down. Structure the kits first with the "travel" bits as supplemental info. Do that with navigation, structure, what you feature on the home page. It's all there, it's all a good idea – it's just not presented properly, IMO.
Hopefully this stuff will give you some ideas and direction that you can use. Best of luck!

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Ammon Johns 🎓 » Truslow
is absolutely right about the travel niche. Now, personally, I've worked for lots of clients in the travel niche, everything from the largest package holiday supplier to the custom safari experiences, and even out to the peripherals like airport parking, etc. And I've turned away probably 50 prospects who just didn't have the budget (or product differentiation) to stand a chance for EVERY single client I accepted.
It's not that the small sites can't get traffic. Fact is that travel blogs actually dominate the market in terms of what influences the consumers, and the biggest tour operators and brands in the travel business have been dealing with that for over a decade. It's that there are literally millions of those travel blogs, each influencing a few people, but rarely enough to directly monetise for a living.
It's a lot like the classic situation of "The Tragedy of the Commons" where collectively everyone is over-grazing the available pasture, but individually each creature there is malnourished and struggling.
What I can tell you for certain is that every single one of the good and big agencies will have at least one client in that space, and so you will absolutely be competing against entire teams of experienced and well-funded SEO users.
Progress is slow, expensive in resources, and uncertain, any one of which would make it a bad choice for a bootstrap startup.
Now, a friend of mine, Mike, is a bit of a coffee fan, and travels a fair bit, and I happen to know he has a little coffee-making kit that goes to hotels with him. I know that because he's talked about it at various times on social media.
So here's my first question for you to think about: Why don't *you* know about Mike? Why aren't you tracking social media platforms for mentions of the word coffee and the word travel or hotel or camping, in the same tweet or post?
Why aren't you partnering up with some of those MILLIONS of travel bloggers to have them, who collectively out-perform the biggest travel companies on the planet for audience reach and influence, possibly promoting your product, or at least reviewing it?

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Ammon Johns 🎓
That brings me to the next part – demographic. Again, Truslow already touched on the fact you've gotten hung up on the word travel, instead of the money part of coffee kit.
Your market is not everyone who travels. Far from it. Your market is almost certainly mostly business travelers. That's because most simple tourists and holiday makers already struggle to pack enough stuff for their vacation, and the last thing they even want to think about is trying to pack a coffee making kit (especially when for many real-life cases, that vacation is the one time one of them feels they are getting away from having to cook and do housework).
You want the business travelers, who are traveling often enough to miss good coffee, often enough to have seen what those Starbucks bills are adding up to, but for short enough visits that packing some extra kit is easy and not an issue. That's your bread and butter market right there. And they are not doing the tourist-y, vacation-y things your travel site talks about.
Think about how to target professional traveling salesmen, professional conference speakers, and even professional tour-guides. Think about the information THEY would want.

Thomas ✍️
You all gave me so much to think about. My mind is racing. I am in Thailand now, so it it getting a little late, almost time for me to close my eyes and rest my brain. But please feel free to add any additional thoughts or ideas you might have.
I so much appreciate it. 🙂 ☕
Steven
Everyone hit you from one side, I’ll hit you from the other 😆
I don’t know how much effort you want to put into this product, but if you want it to be successful, you will need some good copywriting and much better and more interesting photos. A good video wouldn’t hurt either.
When I look at your product on Amazon, nothing is grabbing me. There has to be a main focus point that someone will understand.
Is it the best, most high quality portable coffee kit ever made? (Show how it is) ➜ Solid billet CNC milled titanium grinder with ceramic gears, and solid gold handle?
Is it the lightest, smallest, and easiest to pack?
(Show how it is) ➜
You can pick it up with a single hair. Or it weighs less than an apple.

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