Here's how to easily make wooden food photography backgrounds using a wooden pallet. Step-by-step photos (and a video) will take you through breaking down the pallet, assembling the boards, and painting your new food photography backgrounds! I finally got sick of my food photography backgrounds. And maybe a little jealous of all those beautiful wood backgrounds I see on other bloggers' sites. And maybe a little delusional with the idea that if I just had better backgrounds, my food ...
Running a Food Blog
June, July, August: Traffic and Income Reports
Okay, so I’m a wee bit behind on my income reports. Okay, a long way behind. But I want to continue doing this and I’m also super excited about some of the results I’ve seen this month. I’m also writing this post because I’d prefer to write this rather than do a bunch of homework. So, yeah, this is procrastination at its finest. So that I don’t procrastinate too much longer, let’s get down to business here. June June was interesting because I was still working with Gourmet Ads then ...
How to Optimize Your Pins for Pinterest (Pinterest for Food Bloggers Part 3)
So, here is part three of my three part series on Pinterest for food bloggers. In Part 1, I joined several group boards. In Part 2, I used a pin scheduler to save time and get the most out of those group boards. And now, in Part 3, I've optimized all my pins for Pinterest: Part of getting great shares on Pinterest is to post great content. Yes, I know that your blog has awesome content. The question is, does it appear awesome? Pinterest is all about beautiful images, and lots of them. In my ...
How to Get the Most Out of Pinterest Group Boards (Pinterest for Food Bloggers Part 2)
So, the last food blogging post was about joining pinterest group boards and why you definitely should join them. Now, I don't know about you, but after I'd joined about 10 pinterest group boards, I suddenly realized that I was in way over my head. I didn't have enough time in the day to keep all those boards organized, keep track of the rules for each board, and make the most of these boards. Enter BoardBooster. I tried multiple pin schedulers, but ultimately BoardBooster was the best ...
Food Blog Traffic and Income Report: May
Well, since everyone these days seems to be publishing traffic and income reports for their food blogs, I figured I would share mine because a:) hopefully it might be helpful to people and b:) maybe if I post one every month I'll be able to see the improvements and actually realize that I am getting somewhere. The truth of the matter is, while looking at these traffic and income reports can be helpful, it can also be depressing. Especially Pinch of Yum's income report. That's just not very ...
How to Join Group Boards (Pinterest for Food Bloggers Part 1)
So recently I decided that it was high time I upped my Pinterest game and basically became a Pinterest guru. I thought I was a Pinterest guru before, folks, because I pretty much pin constantly, use Pinterest as my main search engine rather than google, and many of my conversations consist of “So I saw this on Pinterest...” But it turns out that I was wrong. I was not a Pinterest guru. My new plan with Pinterest this month was to approach it from more of a business standpoint and see if ...
How to Set Up Rich Pins for Your Food Blog
Today I'm just gonna real quick show you how to set up rich pins for your food blog! Here's a little secret: It is ridiculously, shockingly easy! So, here's how this goes: 1. Create a business account. You have to have a business account or this won't work at all. So turn your Pinterest account into a business account first. Click here to find out how. 2. Make sure your website is linked to Pinterest. This also is really easy. Just go to the "settings" section of your profile and ...