I’ve updated my Australian Food Blog list: it will forever be incomplete but the best that I can do. I’ve decided to stop tracking bloggers who receive free meals, cash or other incentives in exchange for writing posts because I can’t keep up with them and for the most part don’t ever read them. It’s… Continue reading Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies
Category: How to food blog
How to write, photograph, measure and promote your food blog
Note to PR folk: I am not Phil Lee
I can categorically state that I am not Phil Lee, author of the Rough Guide to Norway. You’re looking for this guy. I receive a lot of spam from PR companies, processed goods manufacturers and publishers of which I read none, but over the last few weeks, it has started arriving from Oslo. Maybe I’m… Continue reading Note to PR folk: I am not Phil Lee
Blogger entitlement: Not making money with your food blog.
For quite a while I’ve been meaning to update the “making money with your food blog” post that has drifted out of relevance over the past few years. I’m no longer certain that you can make money with food blogs, reliably, through advertising or affiliate links. By reliably, I mean a predictable minimum wage, $589.30… Continue reading Blogger entitlement: Not making money with your food blog.
Australian Food and Drink Bloggers Conference 2011
Registrations have just opened for the Australian Food and Drink Bloggers Conference for 2011. Get your applications in early.
Food Blog Name Generator
So you’ve decided to start a food blog and broadcast your eating life to the world, but you can’t find the perfect moniker under which to write. So here’s a food blog name generator to fill in your blank. You should name that blog: Apologies if it comes up with the name of a real… Continue reading Food Blog Name Generator
Food Blogger Tip: New Melbourne restaurants with no reviews
A short while ago Fitzroyalty thought that I might be up to the challenge of building some sort of site that churned out lists all of the unreviewed restaurants in Melbourne. I quite clearly wasn’t. I tried a few approaches and none were at all accurate. I couldn’t think of an immediate way to legally… Continue reading Food Blogger Tip: New Melbourne restaurants with no reviews
How influential are Australian food bloggers?
Apart from that mythical beast return on investment, the hottest topic in social media measurement is influence. Does anything that happens on a blog or in Facebook or in 140 characters or less drive people to change their behaviour? I’m banking my current career on it – so I have a small vested interest in… Continue reading How influential are Australian food bloggers?
Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search
This only applies if you write recipes online and care about how many people visit your site. Otherwise, move along. About a fortnight ago, Google released Recipe View in the US and Japan, a new way to trawl through their index for food preparation. When searching for a recipe online, most people type one or… Continue reading Food Blogger Tips: Google Recipe Search