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Weekly Food Blog Update #3: Setting Up Google Analytics
Hey everyone! It is time for another weekly food blog post. This week, we are going to go over how to measure your traffic. You have your food blog or website set up, your social media accounts set up, and you probably even have a few posts. Nice work! The next thing you need to start thinking about is measuring your traffic, and eventually using tools to analyze it. Enter Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool available for you to measure and analyze your website traffic. Some insights you can get through using Google Analytics are: How many people are visiting my website? How are people finding my…
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Weekly Food Blog Update #2: Social Media and How to Get Followers for Your Food Blog
Now you have tackled finding hosting, a domain name, and setting up your WordPress food blog or website. What is the next most important thing you need to do? Setting up social media accounts for your food blog and gain followers. In order to make any money with your blog, you need to have readers! So how do you get out into the crowded spaces of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest and make yourself known? In this post, I will go over how to set up social media accounts and get followers for your food blog. Social media is an animal of its own, so let this post be a…
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Weekly Food Blog Update #1: Hosting and WordPress
Welcome to food blog update #1! In this post, I will be going over how to get started with your food blog/website. So, you have had an idea about starting a blog or website for a while, and don’t know how to take the first steps. Let this guide be a resource to help get you started. Hosting The first thing you need to do is purchase web hosting. Most hosting companies offer monthly or yearly contracts. I have used a few different hosts, and the main differences I have seen are customer service and downtime. I am currently using InMotion Hosting, who I have been with for about 5…
