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User Controlled Analytics: The 3 Most Important Types of Analytics in Your First Year of Blogging

by Alexa @ FBP on Aug 20, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

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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.

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Best Photo Size for a Food Blog

by Alexa @ FBP on Jul 1, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Food Photography Resources, Organization and Productivity

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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.

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How to Use the Yoast FAQ Block

by Alexa @ FBP on Jun 10, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience

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

by Alexa @ FBP on Apr 15, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Food Blog SEO

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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

by Leslie Jeon on Apr 8, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Quick Tips

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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5 Places to Find Popular and Trending Recipes

by Bjork on Feb 4, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Quick Tips

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Sometimes inspiration hits. Other times the creative tank is running on E.

Either way the show must go on. A recipe needs to be made and a post needs to be published to your blog.

So where you do go when you’re fresh out of ideas?

Here are five places you can look to find inspiration for popular and trending recipes. Not only will these recipes give you inscription and ideas for creating your own adaptations, but they’ll also give you an idea of recipes that are currently popular or trending.

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The Importance of Measuring Ingredients by Weight for Your Recipes

by Leslie Jeon on Jan 7, 2021 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Quick Tips

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If you walk into a professional kitchen, chances are you’re going to find a chef (or two, or three) measuring ingredients using a digital scale.

Well, there’s a reason for that!

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Top 5 Tips for Food Bloggers on YouTube

by Leslie Jeon on Dec 3, 2020 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Social Media for Food Creators

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Confession: I am definitely not an expert when it comes to YouTube.

So, naturally, here I am writing a post about advice on creating food content on YouTube. 🙂

I know it seems a wee bit cray-zee, but I’m a huge believer in the idea of expert enough. As a matter of fact, I’ll go so far as to say that sometimes not being the ultimate expert can actually make you a better teacher (see the above link for reasons why).

So if this isn’t The Expert’s Guide to YouTube, then what is it?

I think a better way to describe this post would be A Look into My Notebook: My Personal Top 5 Tips for Food Bloggers on YouTube.

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Which Social Media Platform Should You Use to Promote Your Food Blog?

by Alexa @ FBP on Nov 5, 2020 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Social Media for Food Creators

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We all know that social media is an important part of an effective traffic growth strategy for a food blog. It helps you increase your reach to grow your audience, it’s where a lot of people spend time every day online, and it can help catch the attention of brands or other potential partnerships. But […]

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The IMG Tag and How it Can Super Power Your Food Blog

by Bjork on Oct 22, 2020 in Building Traffic and Growing Your Audience, Tech Tips

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Do you have a favorite super hero? I have always been fascinated with Mighty Mouse. I love the idea of a tiny little mouse that has a really big impact.

There are a lot of different “Mighty Mouse” elements that exist when you’re growing a blog. These are seemingly small or unknown things that in actuality have a big impact on the success of your blog. One of these “Mighty Mouse” elements is the img tag. In today’s post we’re going to dissect the img tag and explain how it can super power your food blog.

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