Improve Your Food Blog

I am interested and have been ever since I started writing a food blog in how you (and I) can use technology to make the people who visit our blogs happier. To make them want to return again, to comment, to follow you on Twitter and to become part of your readership. In the worst case, if they never darken your door way again I don’t want it to be for the wrong reasons.

Somehow amongst the all the posts on how to take good photographs, on recipe writing, on how to perfect macarons, nobody ever seems to write posts on how to make your blog design and software work for you. It sounds boring I know, but a poorly designed website can be just a big a turnoff as a picture that doesn’t really bring your dish to life.

Hopefully most of the tips I write about will be useful to everyone who has a blog – not just a food blog. Also I hope my tips will help you whatever blogging software you use, although I use WordPress

All posts I have written, can be found in the list below. I love comments – if you try any of the tips, let me know, I’d love to hear from you.

Improve Your Food Blog: Eating your own dog food Do you eat your own dog food? Don't worry, I am not about to suggest that cracking open a tin of dog food is in any way going to help you help you find an audience and keep them. However in the software industry the term "eating your own dogfo...
Using In-Page Analytics : Improve Your Food Blog For ages I have been looking for a visual tool to help me understand what features people use on my blog. The Categories, Recent Posts and Popular Posts features all take up space, but do readers use them? I wanted something easy to use and understan...
Understand Your Audience - Improve Your Food Blog For 34% of you this post will of be no use. For 15% of you the information might be interesting but for the rest of you (all 51%) I hope this will be an informational and useful post. Please let me know in the comments what you think! Oh yes, this post...
How do you use food blogs? I have for some time been thinking about how to give something back to the community I get so much from. The food blogging community is full of helpful people who have helped me any number of ways from being at the end of a google search with tips on how ...
Facebook So I finally caved in. I now have a brand spanking new facebook page. Please check it out and let me know what you think of the CoffeeMuffins Facebook page. ...