People with exceptional culinary skills and love for cooking often get suggestions for starting a food blog. And for all the right reasons. If you love cooking and want to share your killer recipes with people, becoming a food blogger is a great idea. Moreover, people who are foodies and often dine out are also encouraged to become food bloggers offering exquisite dining experiences. Surprisingly, there are many lucrative job opportunities for such individuals. I recently discovered that one of the staffing agency was looking for seasoned foodies and food tasters.
If you explore your Instagram, you will know that food bloggers have a massive following. However, for newbies, dealing with the technical side of blogging is slightly more challenging than cooking or food tasting. That is what this blog is about.
Starting a Food Blog
Food blogging stands tall among the most popular blog niches across social media and the internet. All human beings eat and most of them like to appease their taste buds. So, whether it is about exploring new restaurants or sharing your scrumptious recipes, food blogging is a promising option.
You can make your food blog diverse and tempting for all sorts of audiences. You can add recipes, video tutorials, recipe reviews, latest viral food trends, blog posts, technique demos, and so on. At a later stage, when your blog has matured, you can even make categories of various cuisines.
Let’s discuss the steps of starting a food blog.
Choose a Name and Niche
Determining what the blog will be about is your first step. This is the fun and non-technical part. If you want to ensure having a sustainable and profitable blog, you need to do some homework. As mentioned earlier, food blogging is diverse. You need to figure out the niche for your blog.
The following are some of the popular blog niches:
- Food/drink tasting blogs.
- Recipe blogs.
- Healthy eating blogs.
- Cookbook reviewing blogs.
- Location-specific.
- Cuisine specific.
Once you have figured out the niche, you need to come up with a catchy blog name. Again, consider the niche you have selected, and choose a relevant name. it’s okay to take a few days to brainstorm and come up with a nice name.
Hosting and Domain Name
The domain name doesn’t have to be the same as your blog name. You can add variety to your domain name to accommodate more categories and ideas at a later stage. Once you have chosen a name, check if it’s already taken or not.
The next step is to host the domain name you have chosen. Hosting is similar to renting a web space for your blog to be displayed. Once you have dealt with the domain and hosting registration of your blog, you can move to the next step.
Installing WordPress
Installing WordPress is your next step. WordPress is a popular blogging software. It is super easy to install and use. In addition, it comes with convenient features.
Go to your hosting dashboard or cPanel and press the WordPress icon. Click the Get Started tab and select your domain name. You will need to enter the website name, username, and password. Check all the checkboxes before clicking install.
When prompted, choose the theme of your WordPress while it is being installed. Once the installation is complete, you will head to the screen with the login URL and password.
Make it Catchy and Engaging
By this point, you own a food blog officially. The blogosphere welcomes you! Now you are only a few clicks and minutes away from hosting video tutorials, reviews, and recipes of your favorite dishes.
You will be able to flaunt your baking skills by boasting gooey chocolate ganache cake and scrumptious lasagna and so much more! But before you start filming your culinary expertise, you need to do a few things to beautify your blog.
Your neat aesthetics and refined taste should reflect in your blog theme too. You can choose from a variety of free and premium themes WordPress has to offer. Most of them are elegant and catchy. Take your pick and make your blog as tempting as the meals you prepare.
Grow Your Audience
Promoting your blog is the ultimate step and you need to do a thing or two to do so. You need to leverage SEO strategies to increase traffic and gain exposure on the search engines. In addition, you also need to target your marketing and promotion offers on social media platforms.
There are millions of active users on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and so on. You need to target them to gain popularity. Moreover, forums like Instagram are particularly favorable for bloggers. Its algorithm favors and promotes bloggers and businesses.
Once you have grown your audience and gained authority in your niche, you can then hire a team of professionals to help you with videography, content creation, editing, and maintaining your blog. Utilize talent intelligence to find and hire the best people with similar talent and interests.
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