You love food, and you want to share your love for food with the world. And the best way to do that is by starting a food blog. Whether you want to share your delicious recipes with the world or you want to be a food blogger, telling people about amazing food items that you can find in your city. Or you can share the food items that are mind-blowing that you had while traveling, which you want to recommend others.

Whatever the case is, I am sure you are interested in start writing and post your first blog. But it is not that easy. To make sure your blog works well and gets enough traffic, you need to invest some time in it and work hard.

Here are some tips that you should keep in mind while starting a food blog.

Before we start with tips, you should decide whether you want to design your own blog using WordPress or Blogger, WordPress is better. Or you can hire a designer for the same. You also want to buy a domain name because then the blog is completely yours.

Let’s move on the tips

1.           Invest in good quality photos and videos

You want people to be attracted to your blog, and for a food blogger, that means good images of the recipes that he/she is making. Even if you are a food blogger that rates good dishes of street food vendors or cafes, you need good images to do justice to the food and its presentation.

That means learning the art of photography. Have a good quality camera like a DSLR or a great phone with a high-quality lens. Either take a class on how to set the right angle and so on or do a quick online course.

For your blog and your social media profiles, having quality and appealing images is one of the biggest traffic drivers.

2.           Find the best hosting service

You have chosen a CMS platform probably WordPress and a domain name too. Now, you need to invest in a good hosting service too. If you want a successful blog, good hosting service is crucial.

Hosting is paid, which lets your audience access your blog on their desktop and mobile. You can opt for the hosting service and domain name from the same company as it is affordable.

3.           Have a schedule for posting

You need to have a consistent blogging schedule for your food blog. No matter how many visitors or readers you have, you need to keep them engaged. Your faithful followers would like to read your article frequently. So, make a schedule and stick to it. Whether you want to write a food blog every week or thrice every month, it is up to you. But whatever you decide, you need to stick with it.

4.           Organize your content

If you are posting food recipes in your food blog, you need to organize your content. It is because even if you post three recipes a week, you will have over 300 recipes in a few months. Now, you want to use all these recipes to attract your readers. If a person is looking for dessert recipes and you have a lot of them, it can appeal to your audience. But to make them stay for more content, you need to curate and organize your content.

Make proper tags- Indian food, breakfast items, sweet dishes, cakes, and so on.

Organizing your blog will help you to delete content that is not great or update your recipes. You post it again on special occasions like the recipe of cake at Christmas and so on.

5.           Interact with people

A food blogger gets a lot of questions. Questions about finding the restaurant which they are reviewing or asking questions about the recipe that you have just uploaded. Now, you need to answer these questions because the more you will interact with your customers, the more you will build a loyal community.

This community will help you get big and will expose your blog to more people, which is exactly what you want.

Lastly, have a strict policy regarding people sharing your photo or content. Make sure either they don’t or if they do they properly link back to your site and give you credits.