Periscope, a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein, has been purchased by Twitter. This new app, lets you share and experience live video from your mobile phone. For broadcasters, Periscope lets you share experience with others, instantly you can notify followers you’re live, and begin broadcasting. For viewers,…
“SEO is as important as the development of a site.” SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is key to creating traffic on your blog! If you’re not executing this easy fix correctly, you may not be getting full gain from your website or blog. Optimizing your website for search engines, can nearly triple your internet traffic!…
By Grant Goggans If you’re like literally thousands of other food bloggers, you had been exchanging reciprocal links with Urbanspoon until the end of May, when Zomato, the new owners of the service, finally closed it down. Zomato purchased Urbanspoon at the beginning of the year, and while some of us were braced for some considerable changes, the breadth…
Do you track your progress? If not you may be a subject of the “Ostrich Problem” – (image above source: linkedin.com). This phenomenon is “the widespread tendency for people to avoid information about progress towards their goals” (source). This phenomenon is a psychological roadblock that causes most of us to fall behind in realizing how…
Have you ever noticed that some sites have a tiny logo beside their URL in your browser window? Does your WordPress blog have one that came with your theme that you’d dearly love to change? For example, Foodie Pro’s default heart icon is cute, but it probably doesn’t perfectly represent you if your blog is…
by Shelby Kinnaird (aka Diabetic Foodie ) Sometimes readers ask for nutrition counts. You want to make your readers happy, but doing all of that math sure sounds like a lot of work. And couldn’t you get into trouble legally if your numbers aren’t 100% accurate? Let’s explore the topic of whether or not to include…
In the latest podcast, I’m talking to Chris Watkins, co-creator of the blog, Eat Drink Repeat. We’ll discuss his journey from the banking world into his dream job of being an editor for a well known food and drink website. Chris, blogging for a handful of years, discusses the risks of leaving a well-established career…
When you started food blogging, you probably just wanted a fun way to express your creativity online. Who knew that as a blog owner, we have to be in charge of so many things other than content? Probably the most important thing is making sure our sites remain intact. Here are some steps you can…
Here’s a super simple way to create videos all with the pictures you are already taking with your phone. In this video, I’ll show a web-based software program that allows you to easily create videos. With this program, you can add another social media profile: YouTube. Did you know that YouTube is the second biggest…
Each day that goes by, blogs are added to the web and are indexed by search engines. This means that there is a growing number of competitors to readership. After all, people only have so much time in the day. There are some things we can do to make our blog posts more attractive to…
