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Whether you're brand new to food blogging or a seasoned pro, we're here to help you with proven tips and strategies for growing your blog. Here on the Food Blogger Pro blog, you'll learn about building traffic, food blog SEO, social media tips, and more. Keep an eye out for a new post every week!
New Course: Email Marketing 101
Hip hip, hooray — it’s new course day!
We just hit publish on our brand-new Email Marketing 101 course, and spoiler alert: it’s a great one. 🎉
If you’re looking to start growing your email list or simply want to level up your current email marketing strategy, you won’t want to miss this course!
7 Tools to Help You Plan Out Your Content Calendar
As food bloggers, we do a lot of work.
We test recipes, edit photos, write blog posts, schedule content for social media, republish old posts… and the list goes on and on!
That’s why it’s great to use some kind of content planning tool to map out, outline, and manage all your upcoming content. It’s hard to keep track of all that information in your head, so why not use a tool to make your life easier?
So, without further ado, here are a few of our favorite tools that will make content planning a breeze!
How to Find Inspiration for Recipes as a Food Blogger
Let me paint a picture for you: the new season is approaching, you sit down to fill out your content calendar with some exciting new recipes… and your mind goes blank. Nada. Zilch. 😱
Let’s be real — we’ve all been there!
As food bloggers and content creators, it can sometimes feel really overwhelming to come up with new recipe ideas time and time again. So what do you do when you need to hit publish on a new post but can’t think of anything?
To help you out, let’s explore some of the unique ways you can find inspiration for recipes and get those creative juices flowing again.
User Controlled Analytics: The 3 Most Important Types of Analytics in Your First Year of Blogging
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.
New Course: Getting Creative with Your Blog Posts
Say it with me now: new course day! new course day! 🙌🏻
That’s right — we’ve got a brand new course for you today, and it’s all about Getting Creative with Your Blog Posts.
So, if you’re looking for some new and unique ways to jazz up the content on your site, this is the course for you!
New Course: Yoast SEO
Guess what? One of our most popular courses just got a makeover! And it’s a must-watch course if you’re focusing on increasing your blog’s traffic.
That’s right — I’m talking about our Yoast SEO course.
As I’m sure you know, things change rapidly in the online world, and WordPress plugins are no exception. The Yoast SEO plugin has changed quite a bit since we last recorded this course, so we wanted to share a brand-new version for all of our Food Blogger Pro members.
New Course: Google Search Console
Hey hey, party people! Do I have an announcement for you…
We just updated our course all about Google Search Console! 🎉
Bjork originally created this course to give you a fundamental understanding of this essential tool, and he covers how to navigate the reports, understand errors, and make changes to strengthen your site’s presence on Google.
And today, we just added a brand-new lesson all about Page Experience and Core Web Vitals.
Most Popular Ad Networks for Food Bloggers (2023)
As a food blogger, ads can be a great way to diversify your blogging income. Your site will earn revenue simply when readers visit a page on your site that has an ad — hello, passive income! 👋
However, you don’t necessarily want to be the person working directly with advertisers to get ads enabled on your site, and that’s where ad networks come in. Ad networks make it incredibly simple for website owners to add, track, monitor, and tweak website ads.
In this post, we’re going to dive deep into the wonderful world of ads, as well as some of the most popular ad networks for food bloggers. Let’s get into it!
Best Photo Size for a Food Blog
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.