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Food blogger tip: How to block the worst diet ads from Adsense on your blog.
By Phil Lees Tuesday April 13, 2010
I both earn money from AdSense and pay Google for ad space – so seeing a terrible looking ad on my blogs and getting exposure hurts. If you do visit a couple of Australian food blogs, eventually you’ll be served up with this diet ad – as Simon mentions over at his site: You might [...]
Getting my focus back.
By Phil Lees Sunday April 11, 2010
The Australian food bloggers’ conference (which I’ve also written about over at SBS) seems to have had the effect of lighting a gigantic fire under the collective arses of Australia’s food bloggers. I feel like I’m back on the blogging bandwagon and have a decent reason to post again. The conference gave me real chance [...]
Moving your food blog from Blogspot to WordPress
By Phil Lees Monday March 22, 2010
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 to WordPress. It does require [...]
10 Food Blog Templates
By Phil Lees Friday October 2, 2009
It’s been two years now since the start of the Last Appetite, so I’m beginning to consider putting together a new design. The choice is between building/modifying a new one from a free food blog template myself or having a template built bespoke. Either way, the process involves me trawling through the best templates out [...]
Four tips for food blog PR
By Phil Lees Sunday May 17, 2009
There has been debate on the Australian food bloggers group about opting in or out of the public relations onslaught, mostly because when it comes to food blogging, some PR people act like dicks. It is no great secret that Australian business is a long way behind the US when it comes to online PR. [...]
How to food blog: breaking Food Buzz
By Phil Lees Sunday April 5, 2009
I know that this is a little trite, but relearning how to play Javascript for the 4 Ingredients post has emboldened me to break Food Buzz, the giant “Web 2.0″ food blog content scraper. If you want to stop Food Buzz from using your content (but still retain the incoming links and traffic from Food [...]
What makes a good food blog?
By Phil Lees Saturday October 4, 2008
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 on the web, I know [...]
Measuring web statistics for your food blog
By Phil Lees Monday May 26, 2008
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 blog a day, but once [...]
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