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3 Ways to See Long-Term Success as a Food Blogger

by Natalie @ FBP on Apr 10, 2025 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

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If you’ve been blogging for any period of time, you’ve probably realized by now that your to-do list is always growing.

Even right now you may be thinking that you need to…

Figure out how Pinterest works
Learn about shooting recipe videos
Find a theme for your blog
Create a logo
Start sharing content on Instagram and Facebook
Learn about food photography
Understand SEO and email marketing
Establish your brand

… and feel like you should have had ALL of that done rightthisverysecond.

And that’s all on top of creating valuable, helpful, awesome blog content! 🤪

But I have some good news about your to-do list –– you have permission to choose what you do. This is your blog, after all. Just because someone has a podcast, works with brands, and posts 47 times a day on Instagram doesn’t mean that you have to, too.

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Reddit as a Traffic Source for Food Creators

by Emily @ FBP on Oct 10, 2024 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

Many content creators have noticed dips (or even dives) in traffic this year following several Google algorithm updates. One of the best ways to weather the increasingly variable world of SEO is to diversify your traffic (and income) sources via social media, email, memberships, and more. If you’re looking for a potential new source of traffic for your blog, consider Reddit as a traffic source for food creators!

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5 Ways to Make More Money from Your Food Blog

by Ann @ Food Blogger Pro on Aug 8, 2024 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Creating an Income

If you’re making a dollar from your food blog, you could probably be making two. If you’re making $100, you could probably be making $200. If you’re making $1,000, you could probably be making $2,000. I could keep going with that, but you probably get the gist by now: it’s time to maximize your blog’s earning potential! 💰

While it may be easy to increase your blog’s income by adding additional ad units, writing spammy posts with many affiliate links, or pitching unrelated or untested products to your readers, the goal here is to increase your revenue-making capabilities without degrading the quality of your site.

The more value you can provide to your readers, the easier it is for them to return to your blog. Words to live by!

Let’s explore some ways you can amplify your monetization strategies in this post!

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Leveraging Your Email Inbox to Drive Blog Growth

by Ann @ Food Blogger Pro on Jul 11, 2024 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

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As your blog continues to grow, so will your audience. And the bigger your audience gets, the more emails you’ll receive. This is not necessarily a bad thing because it’s a great opportunity for you to connect with your readers!

That’s why it’s important for you to understand how you can leverage emails to grow your blog.

As you continue to develop your blog, you’ll start to see a trend in the types of emails that come into your inbox. You may receive emails from readers who just love your content and want to say hi—try to respond to these emails if you can! Showing someone you heard what they said (and that you genuinely care) can go a long way.

Today’s post will focus on another type of email: support emails! The primary goal for this type of email is to solve a problem, not necessarily to connect or say hi. 👋

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7 Simple Advertising Terms Every Food Blogger Should Understand

by Bjork on Jun 27, 2024 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Creating an Income

Let’s face it — advertising terms can be confusing. But if you’re looking to turn your food blog into your career (or a money-making side hustle) then it’s important that you have a solid understanding of advertising terminology.

The good news is that the most common advertising terms are fairly simple to figure out, especially if you have examples to reference. In this post we’re going to look at seven different advertising terms every food blogger should understand and explain them using simple and easy to understand examples.

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Our Favorite Food Sharing Sites (2024)

by Emily @ FBP on Mar 14, 2024 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

Do you submit your blog recipes to food sharing sites? These recipe aggregator sites help recipe creators by amplifying their content to new audiences and driving traffic back to their blogs.

As a recipe creator, you can submit your recipes to these food sharing sites, and then these sites will display and feature those recipes. These food sharing sites are all a little different, but submitting your content to them can be part of an effective traffic-building strategy, especially when you’re just starting out.

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6 Keyword Research Tips for Food Bloggers

by Alexa @ FBP on May 5, 2023 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Food Blog SEO

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As you probably already know, everyone’s keyword research process is different, and each of those processes have quite a few steps.

So in today’s Part 2 of our Keyword Research for Food Bloggers series, we’re just focusing on 6 keyword research tips that can help you along on your keyword research journey. They’re actionable, related to recipe SEO, and good things to keep in mind whether you’re looking to start or optimize your keyword researching strategy.

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Best Free & Premium Keyword Research Tools for Food Bloggers (2023)

by Alexa @ FBP on May 4, 2023 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Food Blog SEO

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Keyword research is one of those “buzzworthy” terms in the blogging/creator industries right now, and it refers to the process of investigating search term performance and using that information to form a thorough blog post.

There are a bunch of different keyword researching tools that creators can use to optimize their blog posts, and in this post, we’re going to cover some of our (and our community’s) favorites.

Let’s dive in:

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18 Ways to Make Money From Your Food Blog in 2023

by Emily @ FBP on Apr 13, 2023 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Business of Blogging, Creating an Income

For many food bloggers, the ultimate dream is to “go pro” and turn their blog into a business that can generate a full-time income. It’s possible, but it takes a lot of hard work, dedication, luck, and diversification to make that much money from your food blog. That last one, diversification, is a concept that people don’t often think about when they consider creating a full-time income from their blog.

People often use the phrase “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” when referring to diversification, but that phrase doesn’t really work for what we’re trying to communicate in this post. We like this phrase better:

Fill your empty egg carton.

Okay, we’ll be the first to admit that it’s not as catchy, but the visual of the egg carton helps to communicate the point that we’re hoping to make, which is this…

It’s really hard to create a full income from just one income source (i.e. one egg), but when you fill all of the possible income sources (i.e. openings in the egg carton), it becomes much easier to make that much money from your food blog.

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Juicing the Low-Hanging Fruit: Optimizing Old Content for SEO

by Alexa @ FBP on Mar 30, 2023 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Food Blog SEO

When you think about SEO, how do you feel?

A. 😬
B. 😭
C. 😱
D. All of the above

It’s 100% okay and normal to pick any of these options (especially the last one) when you’re optimizing your content for SEO. But it really doesn’t have to be that way.

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