Food blogger

The first important question is: do you know what blog is?
If you don’t know it, a blog is a website where you can handle a topic in a personal way (music, art, cinema, travel, food, geography, etc.).
Lately, it’s quite common to open a blog to talk about personal hobbies, to share personal experiences on a particular theme, or to work with it.
In this article I will explain you how a food blogger working with a blog.
Now, a food blogger is someone who talks about food, recipes, wealth lifestyle in a blog, using photos and videos.
It’s not necessary to have specific studies in the field of nutrition, but it is important to know the argument you want to talk about, being updated on the latest trends and news, being creative, reading kitchen magazines and other food blogs.

What do you have to do to become a food blogger?

First of all, creating a blog! The most used software for creating blogs is WordPress, however, there is also bloggers.
WordPress is quite easy to use, it’s free and lets you choose the theme that best suits your blog lookup needs without prior knowledge and without the help of anyone.
If you don’t want to create a blog by yourself, you can search for a WordPress specialist, or a web developer or a web designer and you can pay them for doing it.
A food blogger posts articles, photos and videos, so I suggest you to have a good camera or a decent video camera, even if you have a cell phone.
A good blogger:

  • Interacts with users by answering comments to posts;
  • Shares his knowledge;
  • Posts articles regularly, every week at least.

For the first year you will not see great results, because of many factors: how many times per week you will update your blog; the position on the Internet, and so on, but don’t give up! If you want to become a food blogger, you will be able to overcome job difficulties, and reaching your goals!
If you look for the most popular food bloggers on Internet, you may be able to deepen their stories to find out how they have become successful food bloggers.

Do you know SEO? Why is it so important to know?

If you want to learn more about SEO, click on SEO Consultant, a person specialized in web position at the first search results on Google and other browsers.
Now you have to know that SEO is important for your website because it helps you to scale rankings on the Internet. In other words, once you have opened your blog and started writing content, it will be among the latest Google search pages, and nobody will read your posts!
You can learn SEO through online courses, books, tutorials, or if you don’t want to study it you can pay a SEO consultant for doing this job for you.
Another aspect to consider is using social networks, because they allow you to reach users who don’t know about your blog yet. For a food blogger the most useful social networks are: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, but also Twitter, Pinterest. There are several social networks today, you can choose what you want, but consider to publish posts frequently and establish a relationship with your fans to grow your community with followers.
If you want to learn more about social networks strategies to grow your community, and earning money with it, you can read these two articles about Social media manager and Community manager.

How can you earn money with your blog?

First of all, you have to use Google Analytics, a tool that let you know how many daily and monthly visits your website receives. This helps you to improve your content strategies and offers something better if your content doesn’t work.
Your first goal should be 1000 visits per day to your blog. If you manage it you can use sponsored ads by Google Adsense, and affiliate marketing to start earning money. Then you can find more opportunities to earn money with your blog: collaborating with food & beverage companies, reviewing their products on Youtube, writing kitchen books, and other forms of earnings that you find out working hard with your blog.

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