There are days when writing is a breeze, and others where the words just don’t flow. In both cases, having a structure to work off and knowing what’s important to answer helps the flow so that you can get more done in less time. Just like in baking, having a formula (or recipe) to follow…
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Foodie Rates for Recipe Development, Sponsored Posts
A common question we get is: How do I set rates for my freelance work? The all-encompassing answer is: whatever the market will pay. We’ll address the issue of creating sponsored posts for a brand, and posting them on your food blog. This is different than doing freelance recipe development for magazine or publishers, where other…
Why You Shouldn’t Waste Time with Recipe Indexes
Recipe indexes are a core part of food blogging. Your food blog is the best thing ever invented visitors are going to spend minutes and hours going over every inch of your website and looking at each recipe that you made Well, that’s the theory anyways. The days of typing in “yahoo.com” and browsing their…
Recipe Index Pages Need Content
An often overlooked part of creating a food blog is the category pages, which double as recipe indexes, grouping recipes that share certain characteristics. Actually, this is a mistake that almost every food blogger makes, aside from the top ones who’ve been tweaking and refining the longest. The problem? These pages usually have no content on…
