The one thing you truly own in food blogging is your email list. Social media? That can disappear over night. Algorithms change. These are the people who you’ve received permission from to enter their most sacred inbox. And most of you (well, us too) have been doing it wrong. Hands up if you’ve been sending…
Food Blogging and Promotion
Now that you have your food blog up and running with a couple recipe posts, how do you promote it to drive traffic? Dive into our posts about how to market your blog so that you can increase traffic and pageviews, and get started on the path to higher ad rates and sponsored content, just like the top food blogs.
Food Blog Site Structure
Site structure is complicated, and we haven’t done enough to simplify it at Feast Design Co. Not only does it help search engines understand and crawl content, it helps visitors find related recipes, and it helps the blogger focus on what’s important. As of 2019, we’ll be recommending a simpler website structure that will save…
How to Write a Recipe Post
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…
Category 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 most thorough. The problem? These pages usually have no unique content on them. Web pages with little-or-no unique…
SEO for Food Bloggers
Want to grow your blog? Well, it goes way beyond stringing together a few words and images. Be a better blogger by using these 9 tips!
Food Blog Sitelinks
Probably one of the least capitalized-on opportunities for food bloggers is sitelinks. What are sitelinks? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en The Feast Plugin Sitelinks inserts navigation code into your page’s content, adding links to your headings, and turning your headings into hyperlink anchors. This gives you the possibility of generating MULTIPLE hyperlinks in search results, with different anchor text,…
All About Food Blog Pagespeed Load Times
While our Cravings Pro and Seasoned Pro have some default settings that make it marginally faster than Foodie Pro, Brunch Pro, or Cook’d Pro, the real pagespeed factors come into play with some specialized hosting configurations (WPEngine, Flywheel) or plugins (WP Rocket) Your goal here is simply to speed up how fast your pages load,…
Best Food Blogs of 2019
What makes a food blog great? Loads fast Great design that highlights content Recipes that are focused around a theme or topic Pictures of the food for reference (and to drool over) Our themes get the design out of the way and highlights your content and images, so that you can focus on cooking and…
Why Should I have an Editorial Calendar? Food Blogging Tips You Need
In the early stages of food blogging, many people are recipe-dependent. You add flair here and there but rely on recipes to learn new techniques and explore flavors. But as you hone your skill, you find recipes limiting. They staunch your creativity and become a total time-suck. Instead of spending hours pouring over cookbooks, you…
How often should I post?
As much as you can. If you can put out 1000 high quality recipes by tomorrow, do it. Just post the content when it’s ready, and make sure it’s good quality content. The day of the week myth The myth that you should post on a given day of the week stems from email marketing, with…
The Secret Ingredient: How to Grow into a Top Food Blog
The secret ingredient that makes your recipe pop, like pickle juice or fish sauce, can sometimes get weird. So, we’re getting weird in this blog post too. Or, at least, different. Because the secret ingredient to growing a top food blog isn’t your innate talent, knowledge of spices, or the online course you took last…
Food Blog Recipe Videos
A growing trend in food blogging is recipe videos, which can help increase time-on-site, get you featured positions in search engines and makes your content more easily shareable. In fact, schema requirements for recipes have recently been updated to include video, and the top recipe plugins have already implemented in. While you won’ be penalized…
How to make email marketing an easy part of your content production process
You already know that social media is vital to promoting your food blog, but did you know that email marketing is just as important to the top food blogs? According to OptinMonster and MailMunch, email marketing has actually proven to be more effective and have a wider reach than social media. But why? MailMunch claims…
8 Ways to Promote Your Food Blog
One of the key aspects of creating an actionable promotion strategy is breaking to-dos down into bite-sized pieces. While many promotional techniques require strategy and time, there are plenty of ways to integrate small tasks into your daily schedule. We want to help you make the most of your time, which includes small, but extremely…
How to Price Sponsored Content For Your Blog in 2019
You’ve put time, energy, and creativity into making your blog wildly successful, checking off items from our how to start a food blog tutorial. You’ve made it beautiful with a premium wordpress theme and you’ve got the right tools. You’ve also figured out your action plan and you’re creating content like a champ. You’ve built up…
How to get an audience in your first year of blogging (Spoiler: there’s no magic bullet)
by Cathy Tibbles, WP Barista Once upon a time I was married to a man who was diagnosed with celiac disease. So I started converting our family-friendly recipes into gluten-free ones. I posted them on a cute little blog, “Strawberries Are Gluten Free”. And I waited. I waited for the accolades, the questions (so I could…
How To Take Action When You’re Paralyzed With Blogging Advice Overload
You’re already doing incredible work, and any content marketing tactic you use should elevate the brilliant things you have to share with your audience–without bringing you down. #loveyourblogagain
Food Blog Recipe Submission Sites
We’ve compiled a list of recipe submission sites that you can submit yours to: Foodyub Foodgawker Fridgg Recipe Lion My Magic Recipe KitchenThyme Tastespotting HealthyAperture FindingVegan Tasty Kitchen Yum Goggle The Feedfeed Big Oven Brit + Co Buzzfeed PureWow Greatist DIYs Do you have any favorite recipe submission sites that you submit to for traffic…
Should Food Blogs Pay to Advertise for Email List Signups
The short answer: No. The effort and expertise required for conversion rate and landing page optimization to convert paid traffic into an email list, and then generate a return-on-investment, is out of reach for 99% of food bloggers. Acquiring Email Signups If you pay $1 CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) for Facebook traffic and convert…
5 Things Getting In The Way Of Your Blog’s Success
Even the most energetic, passionate, and motivated people have an uphill battle ahead of them when it comes to building a successful blog. Many people get into blogging thinking it’s a shortcut around the hardest aspects of running a “real” business. They fall into the trap of believing that since publishing a blog post is…
