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I say ditch the Captcha! And I'll tell you why. Up until a few days ago, literally a few days ago, I was using Captcha on my blogs. Even with Captcha some spam comments would get through and I'd have to delete them. I'll get into a bit more detail … [Continue reading]
I am not a photographer. Nor do I pretend to be one. Before my food blog I hardly ever took any pictures. But with food blogging I realized that the two go hand in hand. I need to take pictures of my food, because when I buy a cookbook myself I … [Continue reading]
Here I talked about the importance of using a tool such as Google Analytics. If you don't have an analytics tool, how would you ever know how your blog is performing. So if you don't care about your blog's performance that's fine, some people just do … [Continue reading]
Before I had installed this plugin on www.jocooks.com and when it started having a lot of visitors, that's when the blog started to crash often. By crashing I mean someone goes to visit your blog they get an error pages because the server is too busy … [Continue reading]
If you're serious about food blogging, then you want to design a blog that is attractive, easy on the eyes and makes your blog easy to navigate. A theme is a collection of files that work together to produce a graphical interface to unify a design … [Continue reading]
Pinterest has probably been a God-send to a lot of bloggers. Earlier in the beginning of the year I didn't even know what Pinterest was. I had heard of it, but I didn't get it. And then something happened. Something that probably has happened to a … [Continue reading]
One of the biggest learning experiences I've had through this journey, is learning about photography. I had never before thought twice about how pictures turned out, or about lighting and composition. When I first started my blog I didn't even think … [Continue reading]
The reason wordpress is so easy to use is because there are thousands of plugins available. A plugin is a program or set of functions that add specific features to your blog therefore allowing you to create complex and interactive blogs with no … [Continue reading]
So you have your blog created, you have a few posts up, you're getting decent traffic and you are ready to take it to the next level. Let's not kid ourselves. We all hope that we can create a very successful blog that will eventually bring in … [Continue reading]
In a previous post I talked about how to drive traffic to your food blog through food porn websites. Another major way to get traffic to your blog is google. This is probably the one you should focus on the most. Ultimately you want google to find … [Continue reading]
