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Open food blog build
Follow along with me as I build, grow and monetize a food blog from scratch! I've been working with food bloggers for years, and finally decided it was time for me to start one too. I'll be sending emails once a week sharing in-depth details, my exact numbers, and...
Year-Long Holiday Planning Guide
Any holiday can be huge for food bloggers, so here is your guide on how to "hack the holidays" and make the most out of your content. If done well, your reader will fall in love with you for providing them relevant content when they need it most. For holiday...
Web Accessibility for Food Bloggers
Web accessibility is a critical component of any blog. This concept has been around for quite a while, but the internet as a whole has only in recent years moved towards viewing accessibility as a standard for all digital content. I created a guide and planner just...
Survey: How & why people use recipes online
The internet has overtaken and changed many parts of our lives, and how we use recipes is no exception. Food bloggers strive to be at the forefront of this change, but there's not always the knowledge and research available to fully understand what users want. In this...
Create a Blog Readers Love by Using the UX Honeycomb
The User Experience Honeycomb by Peter Moreville is a great tool that can (and should) be applied to food blogs. The honeycomb consists of seven topics: useful, desirable, accessible, credible, findable, useable, and valuable. When all of these focus areas are applied...
How to Make Your Recipe Card User-Friendly
What do readers ultimately want when they visit your blog? Nearly every time, it's to find and make a recipe. So, how easy are you making it for readers to accomplish that task? Many factors go into how you decide to structure your blog post. And often, those...
Use Google’s HEART framework to create a user-friendly blog
You spend tons of time on SEO and social media to get people to your site, but how much time do you spend making sure they stay, love it, and convert into long-term followers? Making your blog user-friendly is an area that often gets overlooked, but it's actually just...
Do ads help or hurt your blog? (And alternative ways to make money!)
Ads are a typical way to monetize a blog. After all, you aren't doing all this work for free, right? In the early times of blogging and digital content creation, ads were one of the first and easiest ways to monetize your site. It still remains a popular way to create...
Tips for Making Your Blog Mobile-Friendly
For many blogs, especially food blogs, mobile viewership rates average 75% or better. So, making sure your blog is mobile-friendly is critical. If your website doesn't work well on all sized screens, you won't do well in search...
