Adding content for the sake of adding content has long been a bad idea. When someone comes to your website looking for a recipe, don't go on a 5-paragraph rant about your weekend and mother in law visiting. But adding topically relevant content that is unique to that page is a great way to provide value to...
Monetizing Content
Food Blogger Income: Personal Chefs
Running a food blog is in simple terms, just another small business. Like all businesses, food blogs should have multiple income streams. Not only does this earn you more money each month, it safeguards you against changes in the industry and broader market. It's unfortunate that most food blogs rely solely on ad revenue. While...
Disclosures for Food Bloggers (2019)
Food bloggers that take compensation (in any form) for promoting content are legally obligated to disclose it. This can include: money free products free trials or subscriptions quid pro quo arrangements having trips or expenses paid for publicity, backlinks, exposure There is no exhaustive list of what "compensation" counts as, and if there was, someone...
Paywalled Recipe Posts
A popular avenue for large, long-established editorial sites is to create a paywall for their content. A paywall is a feature that blocks visitors from accessing content on your site (like a wall), unless the visitor pays. There's a compelling reason to do this if you believe the benefits - revenue - will exceed the...
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...
When should I start using ads?
Broadly speaking, we don't recommend adding ads until you qualify for Mediavine or AdThrive. Why? The pay out just isn't worth it. While it can be enticing to think you can start to "cover costs", there's always a trade-off. In this case, the trade-off is a worse user experience and pagespeed performance. Mediavine themselves admit...
Protected: Food Blogging for Fun and Profit
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Here’s a Holiday Gift Idea: Why Not Publish a Food Blog Cookbook?
Have you made your Christmas shopping list yet? Let me guess. Golf balls for Dad? A new pair of kicks for hubby? Maybe a Sephora gift card for your best friend? Yeah. Okay. Maybe that's our garden-variety list. But, I think we can all agree that it's easy to run out of creative gift ideas....
How to get started selling online with WooCommerce
This is a guest post from Michelle Martello from Minima Designs. She's your gal when it comes to digital strategy for modern entrepreneurs! Running a blog or other type of online business? At some point you'll probably want to sell something from your website. One of my favorite WordPress plugins is WooCommerce. This well-supported tool...
Six Ethical Ways to Earn Money With Someone Else’s WordPress Themes
Building a WordPress theme takes a lot of work. It's not just the designing and the coding – it's setting up a shop where you can sell your themes, promoting them, managing an affiliate program, dealing with support emails, updating your theme to fix bugs and add new features… The list goes on, and on,...
Monetize This: 3 Things To Know Before Selling Sponsored Content
With the recent news about Facebook allowing verified pages to publish sponsored content, you're probably wondering if it's something you can offer for yourself. If you're thinking about how you can publish sponsored content on your own social profiles, or maybe even on your blog, there are a few things you absolutely need to know...
How to Craft a Sponsored Post Without Seeming Inauthentic
Writing sponsored posts is a great way to make money blogging, but you want to keep your readers’ trust. Here’s how to write them in a genuine way.
The Kick-Butt Blogger’s Guide to Boosting Earnings Through Brand Collaborations
You absolutely love working on your blog, and take pride in the content that you produce. But if you could still feel that way and pull in some extra cash while you're at it? Well, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody who would turn that opportunity down. You hear a lot these days...
