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Tell me if this sounds familiar:
You make this really awesome recipe – I’m talking really yummy, and you can’t wait to share it with your readers. It’s full of fresh ingredients, the pictures are great, and it got rave reviews from your family.
You open your post editor to get started on the blog post, and…your mind goes blank. Words have lost their meaning. Your fingers freeze. Your mind starts filling with random SEO advice and desires to do keyword research.
“What in the world do I write?”
Have you ever Googled one of your recipes and been disappointed with how the result is displayed in Google (if it even displays at all)? This happens for one of two reasons:
You can’t do much about #1. Even if your blog is perfectly formatted Google might still decide that they’re going to leave out certain information from a search result. Google does as Google pleases. There’s not much you can do about it except make sure that you’re not falling victim to #2.
There is something that you can do about #2, as there are multiple components that factor into the ideal, rich search result for food bloggers. None of them are complicated, but they do require some time to set them up properly.
One of the most important plugins for a food blogger is a recipe plugin. Recipes are at the core of most food blogs, so as a food blogger, you’ll want to make sure you’re publishing your recipes in a way that’s helpful for your readers and for search engines to understand.
And a good recipe plugin will do both!
We’re going to cover a few different things in this article to help you choose the best recipe plugin for your blog:
Oh, Instagram. Love it or hate it, it’s an important and effective way of building your brand.
But how can food bloggers successfully use Instagram as a part of their traffic and brand strategy? Let’s discuss:
Oh hayyy. 👋 Alexa here from Team FBP. Bringing you an exciting course update!
We have a ✨ brand new course ✨ for you today, as well as a few updated videos to help you navigate some updates from a popular social media platform.
Let’s dive in!
When you want to start a food blog, one of the most important first decisions you need to make is which platform you’re going to use to build your blog.
If you think of your food blog like your cell phone, your blogging platform acts like an operating system (iOS, Android, etc.). You need a place for your content – your posts, your images, your pages – to live. And that place is your blogging platform (also called a Content Management System or CMS).
There are a bunch of different options available to bloggers these days, but we prefer WordPress. It’s what we use for our food blog, Pinch of Yum, and it’s actually the platform we use to run this membership site.
Hello! Team FBP! Back with another brand new food blogging course we know you’re going to love.
One of the biggest trends in food blogging these past few months is republishing old content, i.e. taking previously published posts and making them stronger and more optimized so that they rank higher in search results and are more helpful for your readers.
That’s why we’re excited to announce the release of our new course, Republishing Content!
Oh hi! Guess what?
We have a brand new mini course that will help you manage your inbox like a pro. 💪
That’s right, friends. We refreshed our Inbox Zero for Gmail course with new strategies and tips that will help you keep your email under control.
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We’re breaking out all the stops today because it’s not only new course day here at FBP HQ…we’re also launching a new tool! Think of them as a holiday gift from us to you. 🎁
They both will help you work with brands, which is a topic we get loads of questions about on the Food Blogger Pro forum.
And it makes sense: working with brands as a small business owner can be confusing. There are contracts to review, pitch emails to send, guidelines to follow, and money to track.
So today’s new course-new tool combo is designed to make sponsored content a little easier and straightforward. Let’s dig in:
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Just kidding. 😊Hi! And welcome to Part 2 of our blog series on Food Blogger Pro’s migration to WordPress.
If you want to get caught up, be sure to check out Part 1 here to learn more about our decision to move from ExpressionEngine to WordPress.
Today we’re talking about Discovery. Aka. The first step in our five-part migration process!