A good site structure helps search engines understand and crawl content, and it helps visitors find related recipes. As of 2019, we'll be recommending a simpler website structure that will save bloggers time by removing unnecessarily complex pages, such as recipe indexes and blog pages. This new website structure consists of: The home page The...
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Feast Plugin: Edit Body Font Size
All modern themes from Feast (version 4.0.0+) come with 16px as the standard body font size, for reasons outlined in the font size for food blogs article. This was done to bring the themes more in-line with modern web standards, and to resolve "text too small" errors in Google Search Console. Even just one year...
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This is an updated set of recommendations as of late 2019, for recent versions of the theme (4.2.0+): These are our recommendations and if you have no idea what you're doing, you should follow them. See: why am I making this change? If you're a professional web designer and are happy spending hundreds of hours...
Top Posts Widget
The current recommended way to set up "Top Posts" for your sidebar is: Open up Google Webmaster Tools and view pages, sort by pageviews descending over the last 30 days Create a "Featured" category on your website, using Yoast to noindex it Assign the top pages from Google Webmaster Tools to the "Featured" category, making...
How to use Categories
Note: this is a work in progress Categories allow you to organize your recipes in a way that's good for your site visitors, as well as search engines. This is an opinionated post, based on what we see happen to the majority of inexperienced food bloggers. Your most important pages are your posts, and every...
