How to Start a Food Blog ~ Easy Guide for Beginners
Food blogging is not as easy as many people think. It requires a blog to have a good combination of recipes, gourmet cooking, and captivating photographs to attract readers. If you are into culinary arts and want to share your passion {and ‘secret recipes’} with the world; food blogging is a good idea to showcase your masterpiece.
Of course, a willingness to share your knowledge with the world, and hard work are the key ingredients to making your blog the best one there is on the internet. You can also make your food blog a successful business. Here are some tips to catapult your blog to the numero uno status, and make you the top Food Blogger in India:
1. Get your domain. Give your blog-site a catchy name; preferably with a pun on cooking. Let the name be short and descriptive so that it is easy to remember.
2. Decide on your hosting platform. Once both the domain and name are ready, choose the hosting platform which will make your site live for longer. Additionally, choose a theme that is mobile friendly and not too complicated. It should give you the option to make your blog look beautiful, and should have a variety of themes to make the blog colourful as well.
3. Identify what your content is. You should have clarity on what you are planning to share on your blog as the topic of food is vast and extensive. You can make the presentation as if you are narrating a story, or you can take your readers on a journey along with you and make them feel as if they are with you while you are eating that pizza or sipping wine.
4. Be original. There are a lot of food blogs out there, so let your content be unique and authentic. It is important to give something to people that is different from the other food blogs they read so that it will encourage them to come back to your blog again and again. In a nutshell, I would advice quality over quantity.
5. Inspire readers by being passionate about food. It is important that your love for real food, cooking, and sharing recipes are tangible in the blog. With so many food blogs out there on the internet, your obsession with food must stand out otherwise your blog might not be popular with the readers.
6. Your personality should be tangible through your blog. Your voice, individuality, and creativity must shine through the blog posts and the pictures you share on your blog.
7. Post lip-smacking pictures. Readers like to dream. And, blogs always look captivating if they have eye-catching pictures. So, since a blog is a good platform to put your photography skills to work, go ahead and take some colourful shots of your creations to make them look tempting and out-of-this-world!
8. Connect with other food bloggers. Stay connected with other bloggers because interaction is important, and you need to get inspired once in a while. It is a good way to ‘up’ your marketing game while you build good connections that will make blogging fun. You can post thoughtful comments on their posts once in a while. This way you might end up making friends and can form long-lasting online friendships.
Posting comments, sharing the content of other bloggers, and being a blog buddy is also helpful when it comes to directing traffic to your blog.
9. Social Media Platforms. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter are ideal platforms to connect and develop relationships with like-minded people. There are groups that can help you connect with bloggers so that your blog gets noticed. Ask questions in these groups and the responses might be helpful to decide on the next content for your blog post.
10. SEO {Search Engine Optimisation}: SEO helps in finding your blog via search engines, and will give you opportunities to get your blog ranked so that the number of visitors increases. Once you do your research, use proper keywords while posting and optimise your images. That one specific keyword chosen should be included in your title, first sentence, and post permalink. And yes, following your blog should be made easy.
11. Earning an income from the blog. There are many ways to generate an income from your blog. You can easily turn the traffic into a good stream of revenue {it is not as difficult as you think}. Once your blog has become successful, follow the basic tips when it comes to monetisation; deciding and prioritising the content, keeping it original and simple, and tasteful, and getting started with ads and sponsorship. Coaching and being a consultant is also a good way to bring in revenue, and conducting courses and workshops are the other methods you may try out.
12. Be prepared to work hard. Your blog should be built slowly and consistently and with patience. Get all the groundwork done, check out other blogs, consult and discuss. Once you have all this done, you are on the right track to seeing your blog climb slowly and steadily to the top of Google page rankings which will get you to your goal of becoming the top Food Blogger in India!
To conclude: Like all other blogs, food blogs require time and good planning to make them appealing to the readers. Use useful evergreen content {topics that will not change much with time} along with fascinating tales of food to strike a chord with your readers. This will get them sucked into the world of culinary arts through your words and visuals, and will leave them wanting for more!