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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!
Top 10 FBP Podcast Episodes about Food Blogging SEO
The Food Blogger Pro Podcast has been going strong for almost 9 years (!) and we have 430+ episodes in our archive. Bjork (the Co-Founder of Food Blogger Pro and podcast host extraordinaire) has interviewed countless successful food bloggers and industry experts over the years, covering everything from monetization to food photography, and plugins to SEO.
In this blog post, we’re rounding up our 10 favorite podcast episodes all about food blogging SEO. If you haven’t already listened to these interviews, bookmark them for future listening โ you won’t want to miss them!
Trending Recipe Ideas this Winter
Oh, the weather outside is frightful… but the food is so delightful! โ๏ธ
It’s almost wintertime here in the Northern hemisphere, and that means it’s time to snuggle up by the fire with a warm, comforting meal. Or a steaming mug of hot chocolate and a cookie or two. Honestly, both scenarios sound pretty wonderful to me!
And if youโre trying to brainstorm some fresh new recipes to share on your blog or social media this upcoming season, weโve got you covered. In this post, weโre sharing a roundup of foods that will be trending this winter to help give you some inspo for your content calendar!
Looking for more specific ideas for each month? You can check out our monthly food content trends posts here:
New Course: Content Batching
Happy Thursday Food Blogger Pro members! We have exciting news today โ our new course all about Content Batching is officially live (woo!). ๐
Best Artificial Lights for Food Photography
Lighting is one of the most important aspects of food photography. While natural light is often considered the ‘holy grail’ when it comes to food photography, it is unpredictable. You can’t control the weather, the clouds, or the sunlight, so while natural light produces some beautiful photos, reliable natural light for the length of your shoot can be hard to come by.
Artificial lighting gives you flexibility, control, and consistency that you just can’t get when you’re working with and relying on… the sun! Particularly if you are photographing in the winter, on nights and weekends, live in a cloudy or rainy climate, or live someplace without many windows, artificial lighting is a necessity when it comes to food photography.
One of the biggest barriers to getting started with artificial lighting is the equipment. Which artificial lights are the best? Are there any affordable options? What other materials do you need? Curious to answer these questions and learn more about choosing the best artificial lights for food photography? We’re breaking it all down below!
E-E-A-T for Food Blog SEO
If you’re a food blogger, you’ve probably heard SEO Experts emphasize the importance of creating ‘high-quality content.’ But what, exactly, does high-quality content mean? Well… lots of things! But one of the best ways to ensure that you’re consistently creating high-quality content as a food blogger is by aiming for content that exemplifies E-E-A-T, or Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.
E-E-A-T is a brainchild of Google (which should get your SEO senses tingling!) and is part of Googleโs Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines.
At the end of 2022, Google made a change to how it rates and ranks the quality of content (as part of its Search Quality Rater Guidelines), which influences where that content appears in the Search Engine Results Pages, or SERPS. This change expanded the initial concept of E-A-T, to include another E โ Experience.
Creating content that exemplifies E-E-A-T ensures that youโre creating content first and foremost for your readers, that is high-quality (yes, there I said it again!), thorough, and future-proofed.
3 Advantages of Using the Feast Plugin for Food Bloggers
One of the most popular plugins that our members use is the Feast Plugin.
The Feast Plugin is a powerhouse of a plugin that gives all users access to six popular food blogging themes and helps food blogs run more efficiently and effectively in terms of optimizing for search traffic and usability.
New Course: Canva
Good morning Food Blogger Pro members! We have exciting news today – our new course all about Canva is officially live. ๐
New Course: Selling Your eBook
Good morning, Food Blogger Pro fam! It’s time for a new and improved course today! ๐
The wonderful Alexa recently updated our Selling Your eBook Course and it’s filled with everything you need to know about how to sell an eBook or other digital product. ๐
7 Strategic Ways Food Creators Can Use ChatGPT
AI is the hot topic in the tech world these days, and ChatGPT is at the forefront of many food blogger’s minds. ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, is an artificial intelligence natural language processing model that was first released in November of 2022. Even though it’s relatively new, AI technology is changing rapidly, and it can feel like a challenge to keep up!
Many content creators have concerns about ChatGPT (and other generative AI models) using their content to generate responses without credit, and about the future of food blogging in an AI world. But there are also many opportunities for using ChatGPT as a tool in your food blogging toolbox to help you create high-quality content for your readers.