The Food Blogger Pro Podcast

In this episode, Joost shares:

How you actually pronounce his name
How SEO changes with languages other than English
How to structure your site for usability
Whether or not you should delete older content
How to repurpose old content
If your recipes should show dates in search results
Why you need structured data for your recipes
Why your blog might not show up in search engines right away

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090: How a Legislative Assistant Created Her Own Path to Working for Herself with Brita Britnell 1

Mar 21, 2017

Making money outside of your blog, quitting your job, and finding a service in demand with Brita Britnell.

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Welcome to episode 90 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork chats with Brita Britnell about how she stepped off the beaten blogging path and found a new way to work for herself.

Most bloggers start on their blogging journey hoping to eventually work full-time for themselves on their blog. While this is definitely an admirable and achievable goal, some bloggers have found that this is not the only way.

Brita started making videos for her blog about a year ago and unexpectedly found that she absolutely loved it. She knew there was demand for bloggers to create video, but she also knew that most bloggers just didn’t have the time to learn a new skill. So, she started making videos for other bloggers and found the demand so great that she had to start a waitlist for clients. In just a few months she was able to leave her job and work for herself doing something that she loved. Today, she’s here to share her story.

In this episode, Brita shares:

What motivated her to turn her blog into a business
Why she recommends bloggers go to conferences
What the different stages of her blog were
Why videos were addicting to create
How she managed a full-time job and her growing blog
What made her feel comfortable with quitting her job
How she found her first clients to work with
What it looks like to work with clients
What advice she would give to herself when she was starting out

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089: How to Build a Plane with Alexa, Jasmine & Raquel from Food Blogger Pro 2

Mar 14, 2017

Our best advice for new (or experienced) bloggers, how to manage an affiliate program, and where you can find what to blog about in the coming month.

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Welcome to episode 89 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork interviews FBP team members Alexa, Jasmine, and Raquel about what goes on behind the scenes, and what they’ve learned about blogging during their time as FBP employees.

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Alright, alright. This episode is not really about building a plane. Not a real one, at least! But “building a plane” is an analogy we use nearing the end of the episode when we talk about the most important advice we would give to new (or experienced) bloggers. This advice is so important, in my humble opinion, that I’m wiling to give you a free pass and tell you to skip right to the end if you only have 5 minutes to listen.

If you’ve got more than 5 minutes, settle on in for a listen about how we run Food Blogger Pro behind the scenes, and how you can use the same tools, processes, and techniques as we do to take your blog to the next level.

In this episode, Alexa, Jasmine, and Raquel share:

Why you need to be using a recipe plugin on your website
What the Happening Now videos are and why you should be watching them
How Jasmine manages the affiliate programs
What deals you can find as a member of Food Blogger Pro
What purpose the Trending Now articles serve for food bloggers
How we communicate with our customers
What tool Raquel uses to optimize email
Why coupon sites aren’t allowed in our affiliate programs
How Raquel felt giving up her career in microbiology
What makes working at Food Blogger Pro really smooth for Jasmine
How to build a plane!

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088: How We Run Pinch of Yum with Alana Woolley & Jenna Arend 2

Mar 7, 2017

How Pinch of Yum employs full-time workers, communicating on a remote team, finding what works with video, and tips for working remotely.

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Welcome to episode 88 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork interviews two key Pinch of Yum employees, Alana Woolley and Jenna Arend, about what goes on behind the scenes of Pinch of Yum.

If you’re not a food blogger, it might seem like it’s a job that would be easy to do in your free time. If you are a food blogger, you know that there’s way more time that goes into it than that!

Many people are surprised to hear that Pinch of Yum employs a team of people, 3 of whom work full-time, to keep the blog up and running. Alana and Jenna are two of those people - Alana is the Pinch of Yum Video Specialist, and Jenna is the Pinch of Yum Office Manager. Today, they’re here to break it down for us and talk about how it all works.

In this episode, Alana and Jenna share:

What they do on a day-to-day basis
How they communicate on a remote team
What Jenna’s “lifeline” is for her job
What Alana’s video editing procedure looks like
How she manages backing up giant video files to the cloud
What tool they’ve been using to manage sponsored content contacts
How they experiment with video to find what works
How Jenna got more engaged with Pinterest scheduling
Their tips for working remotely

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