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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.
How long does it take for a post to rank?
We've said it repeatedly: the only important thing for a recipe start is to put out as much high quality content as possible. Your first 6-12 months should be entirely dedicated to perfecting the ...
How to do email marketing right for food blogs
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 ...
Food Blog Site Structure
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
SEO for Food Bloggers
Wordpress + Genesis settings The default Wordpress setup isn't optimal for search engine crawling and indexing. This leaves a lot of bloggers - especially new ones - unable to compete with sites ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. You can't just glaze ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How To Take Action When You're Paralyzed With Blogging Advice Overload
"Content is king." We've all heard it. At this point, the necessity of content marketing is well-known, and there are millions (if not billions) of articles offering advice on how to make your ...
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 ...
