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Aug 08, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments

Talk amongst yourselves

Just for interest’s sake, I extracted the comments table from my blog to see if I could come to any conclusions about the nature of blog commenting. My theory is that comments from non-bloggers have moved elsewhere: to Facebook and Twitter; to the recesses of the web that are difficult

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Jul 13, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees Comments Off

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: Stealing Rants Tweet Apologies if it

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Nov 22, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 26 Comments

Three things that you don’t need to be a food blogger

1. An internet connection. Or at least, you don’t need an internet connection of your own. My first blog, Phnomenon, was almost entirely written without the internet at home. My workflow was to obsessively write and draft at home and when whatever I’d strung together approached a basic coherence, I’d

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Mar 22, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Moving your food blog from Blogspot to WordPress

At the Australian Food Blogger Conference yesterday, Michael from My Aching Head mentioned the process of moving a blog from Blogspot/Blogger to WordPress. I’ve had to do this three times over the past few years for friends. Here is the step by step process for moving a blog from Blogspot

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May 26, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Measuring web statistics for your food blog

Unless you’re going to act upon it, measuring anything is nothing more than statistical masturbation, whether it be on the web or anywhere else. There is the warm afterglow that you get from the first time that you hit a hundred; a thousand or a hundred thousand visitors to your

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Mar 18, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 26 Comments

Making money with your food blog

Selling eggs near Russian Market, Phnom Penh, Cambodia As I mentioned in “How to start a food blog“, food blogging is a terrible way to make money if you enjoy living in the First World. This year, food blogging will pay my rent but not much else. Here is how

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Mar 13, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 15 Comments

How to start a food blog, part 2: Design and building an audience

This post follows on from How to start a food blog. How do I design my blog? Don’t. Get someone else to do it, unless you’re lucky enough to be a web designer or are keen to use the blog to practice your web design skills. Good design counts. Firstly,

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Mar 06, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 21 Comments

How to start a food blog

Honestly ask yourself “Why am I doing this?” I want to share recipes/restaurant recommendations/my boundless food wisdom with friends – If you want nothing more than to share your thoughts about food with people whom you already know (and you are being honest), your best bet is to get over

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