There are currently over 59,000 plugins available that bloggers can use to enhance their WordPress sites… and that’s only counting the free ones!
Whoa. That’s a lot of plugins, right? So how do you know which ones you should actually install to run your site?
That’s what we’re going to chat about in this post! We’ll break down six different types of plugins that we recommend using for your food blog, then we’ll share a few of the best plugins on the market for each category.
Filming recipe videos is a great way to visually show your readers and followers how to make a recipe. Videos are also incredibly popular on almost every social media platform.
Maybe you’re already filming recipe videos and just want to up your game, or maybe you’re a recipe video newbie looking for the best camera for cooking videos. Either way, we’re here to help!
We are going to take a deep dive into the gear that our sister site and food blog, Pinch of Yum, uses for recipe videos – from cameras and tripods to editing software.
So you’ve decided to delve into email marketing – high five! You picked an email provider, and developed an opt-in strategy to get your readers and followers to subscribe to your newsletter. Now what?!
It is time to brainstorm your email welcome sequence to kick-off your email marketing strategy. This is where you can have some fun!
If you write a food blog, chances are you’ve developed countless recipes over the years. Whether an idea for a recipe has come to you in the middle of the night, during a dinner at your favorite restaurant, or from another recipe, you know that this is just the beginning of developing the recipe to be uniquely yours.
With this process can come many different questions. When is a recipe completely your own? What if you run-out of recipe inspiration? What is considered plagiarism? How do you come up with a brand new recipe? Can recipes be copyrighted? Where do you even begin?!
Let’s start with the basics.
Since Pinterest is typically one of a food blogger’s top traffic sources, it’s no surprise that we’re excited about their new Pinterest Predicts 2022 report.
Pinterest Predicts is a “not-yet-trending report” where Pinterest tries to identify the searches and topics that will be trending in the new year. And the reason they produce this report each year is to help content creators take advantage of their predictions via the posts, videos, and photos they share on Pinterest!
If you go to the Pinterest Predicts page, you can filter by category (“Food and beverage” being one of them), so we thought it would be fun to unpack four of their most interesting food and beverage predictions for 2022. Let’s dive in!
Welcome to Part 3 of our Republishing Content blog series!
So far in this series, we’ve covered why you should republish content, as well as how to identify the right posts to update and republish.
And last but not least, we’re going to discuss what to update when republishing content! We’ll explore how to actually republish a post, some key areas you might want to consider updating, and more.
Welcome to Part 2 of our Republishing Content blog series!
In the first post of this series, we talked about the why –– why is updating and republishing old content a solid strategy for online creators?
That’s a great place to start when you’re thinking about your republishing strategy, so be sure to check out that blog post first!
But today I’m excited to talk about the process of identifying the right posts to update and republish.
Hello, hello, and welcome to Part 1 of our Republishing Content Series!
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be focusing on why you should be republishing posts on your blog to get the most out of your existing content.
We’ll be covering:
Without further ado, let’s kick things off by going over a few reasons why you should consider republishing content as a food blogger:
Analytics: The discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
Google Analytics is a funny thing. On one hand, it’s a powerful (free!) tool that offers you seemingly limitless data about your blog. On the other hand, it has the potential to be a huge distraction and an emotional roller coaster, as your mood directly reflects the ups and downs of your blog’s traffic.
If you’re new to blogging I recommend that one of the first things you do is install Google Analytics so it can start collecting data right away. After that, however, I’d do whatever you can to check it as little as possible for the first year of blogging.
One of the most common questions we get from food bloggers is something along the lines of, “How big should the images on my site be?”
It’s not too surprising –– you know that phrase, “You eat with your eyes”? Great photos are an essential part of any successful food blog, so it makes sense that bloggers are concerned with making sure that the photos on their sites are on their sites are the right size for their posts, Google, and site speed.
Image size may seem like a simple enough topic, but it’s actually a bit more nuanced than you may think!
So let’s dive into the beautiful world of food photo sizing.