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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!

How to Use the Yoast FAQ Block

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by Alexa @ FBP on Jun 10, 2021 in
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Yoast SEO is one of the most powerful SEO plugins in the wonderful world of WordPress sites, and an incredibly powerful (and likely underutilized!) feature of the plugin is their FAQ block.

This WordPress block allows you to easily add FAQs (or questions and answers) to your blog posts and pages.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions about the FAQ block on the Food Blogger Pro forums over these past few months, so this blog post will serve as a handy-dandy deep-dive into the ins and outs of using this helpful feature.

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7 Mindsets to Combat Blogger Burnout

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by Leslie Jeon on Jun 3, 2021 in
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If you’ve been blogging for a while, chances are you’ve experienced burnout.

Because when you’re living that solopreneur life, the process of starting and growing your blog can get overwhelming. The countless tasks, to-dos, and responsibilities can really add up over time, leading to a sense of fatigue and overwhelm.

And when those feelings of burnout hit, it can feel really easy to throw in the towel and get discouraged.

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Running Your Food Blog Like a Business

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by Alexa @ FBP on May 6, 2021 in
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If you’ve started your blog from scratch, you’re a CEO. Did you know that?

It’s one of those things that’s kind of obvious, but we don’t think about it much because it’s… intimidating? Scary? Official? All of the above?

But it’s true. And you’ve probably spent countless hours, days, weekends, and years DIYing it all, creating content, photographing recipes, searching for keywords, responding to comments, and sharing your recipes on social media.

And if you’re making money, working with sponsors, running ads, selling products, and/or joining affiliate programs, your blog is a business.

So let me ask you this: are you treating it that way?

To achieve serious blog growth (both in traffic and in income), you should be.

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3 Resources That Can Help You Get More Traffic to Your Blog Posts

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by Alexa @ FBP on Apr 15, 2021 in ,
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Since you’re reading this article, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you probably love some of the elements of producing content for your blog. You might love the recipe development process, the photography, or the cooking. Or maybe all of it!

And I’m going to go out on another limb and say you probably have a lot of content on your blog (and are generating more and more every month). Maybe you have over 50 posts on your blog. Or over 500. Or over 1000 like we have on our sister site and food blog, Pinch of Yum.

And all of that content (both your new blog posts and the ones that already exist on your blog) takes a lot of time and effort to create. You put in the work; now it’s time to make that content work for you for the long run.

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7 Ways to Write Better Recipes as a Food Blogger

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by Leslie Jeon on Apr 8, 2021 in ,
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As food bloggers, we’ve honestly got one of the coolest jobs in the world. Because how rewarding is it to create a delicious recipe from scratch and then see others recreate it and enjoy it?

That being said, I know writing recipes can be difficult. While you can have an amazing idea in your head, it’s tricky to get all those thoughts onto paper and communicate them in an effective way to your readers.

Luckily, there are a few easy ways that you can write better recipes as a food blogger. Let’s get into them!

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