food-blog

Oct 04, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

What makes a good food blog?

A few months ago someone asked me what makes a good food blog; a question that begs to find a common thread through the hundred or so food blogs that clog my feed reader with other people’s meals. As somebody that spends plenty of their working life measuring user behaviour

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Mar 20, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Hellish hosting issues followed by rewarding breakfast

Sorry about the outages to the site over the last week. My hosts have been having problems with their DNS servers, which for laymen, means that the name of my site hasn’t been pointing to where my site is really located. Some people could get to my site, others could

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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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