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Best Props for Food Photography and How to Use Them

We all know that food photography is an essential component of food blogging. Capturing mouthwatering, beautiful photos of your food is one of the best ways to promote your recipes and get readers to your website.

Plates, forks, bowls, napkins, mugs… the list of potential props in your food photographs goes on and on! These props help to create a story and set the mood in your photographs.

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3 Tips to Improve Your Blog’s Web Accessibility

Did you know that more than 96% of all websites are not accessible to users with disabilities? As food bloggers, it’s so important that we make our websites and recipes accessible and that we share content that everyone, including those with disabilities, can enjoy.

Who benefits from website accessibility? LOTS of your readers! One in four U.S. adults in the U.S. live with a disability, and making your site more user-friendly benefits everyone, including:

  • People with visual impairments who may require a screen reader
  • People with limited hand motor skills, arthritis, or other mobility issues that make using a keyboard or mouse difficult
  • People with color blindness
  • Non-English speakers who use translation services
  • People with epilepsy who might be triggered by a bright screen, motion, or flashing images
  • Older readers (did you know that the average person’s ability to use a website declines by about 1% every year after the age of 25?)

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What is a Meta Description and How Can It Help Increase Traffic to Your Website?

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The meta description is an often-overlooked SEO element.

In this post we’ll answer the age-old question: what is a meta description?

We’ll also share why it’s important, where to find the meta description, how to change your meta description, and some basic advice for optimizing the meta description for your food blog.

Let’s jump in!

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How to Develop Original Recipes

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.

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6 Strategies for Negotiating Sponsored Content Contracts

If you’ve ever had a paid partnership with a brand, you know that contracts come with the territory. And if you haven’t done any sponsored content yet, now is the time to brush up on your negotiating skills and contract terminology. 

We’ve reviewed the MAGIC Framework for negotiating with brands in the past, but we wanted to dive deeper into the most common areas for negotiation within contracts.

I know, I know, I can almost hear the snores through the computer screen. But learning the language of contracts can empower you to be a much stronger negotiator and can mean a difference of thousands of dollars in payment.

We’ve broken down six clauses of a sponsored content contract that often lead to negotiations between a brand and a content creator. Within each section, we’ll chat about the most important things to look out for and prioritize. Let’s dig in!

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