Welcome to Part 2 of our Republishing Content blog series!
In the first post of this series, we talked about the why –– why is updating and republishing old content a solid strategy for online creators?
That’s a great place to start when you’re thinking about your republishing strategy, so be sure to check out that blog post first!
But today I’m excited to talk about the process of identifying the right posts to update and republish.
Hello, hello, and welcome to Part 1 of our Republishing Content Series!
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be focusing on why you should be republishing posts on your blog to get the most out of your existing content.
We’ll be covering:
Without further ado, let’s kick things off by going over a few reasons why you should consider republishing content as a food blogger:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
What are you giving away for free on your blog? It’s an important question, because giving things away for free is one of the best strategies for increasing the income you’re earning from your blog.
Giving things away for free in order to increase your income? Seems a bit backwards, doesn’t it? Let me explain.
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.
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!