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Can you believe quarter 4 is just a few weeks away? Whether you've been thinking about Q4 plans already or you haven't started, this episode will walk you through a few things you should be doing right away to prep your food blog for Q4.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Plan your content
• Optimize your website for audience conversion
• Check your website for major issues
• Maximize your RPM
• Schedule website work to be done
• Schedule your time off

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

If you've ever wondered how to get your food blog to stand out in the crowded landscape of food blogging today, the answer is simple: user experience! Creating a great user experience for your website visitors is the key to helping your blog to stand out, getting new users to your website and retaining them as future raving fans.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Two essential pages on a food blog
• How to make your blog stand out in a saturated market
• Top tips to drive traffic to your blog
• The biggest mistakes food bloggers make and how to avoid them
• Emerging trends in food blogging

Resources:

5 Ways to Make Your Blog Post Stand Out

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

Planning for time away from your blog can be intimidating! Whether it's taking time away after a new baby, a big move, or a family vacation, keeping your blog running while you're away IS possible, with a little preparation. In this episode I'm sharing how you can plan for time away from your business and specifically how I prepared my businesses and personal life for that time away.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Planning financially
• Planning for client work
• Planning your content for a break
• Preparing the team for projects
• Preparing personally

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

One of the key ingredients to growing your food blog is understanding your audience. The second part though, is being able to make strategic decisions with your audience - even if they are not what you might have chosen for yourself. I often say that your blog is not about you, it's about your audience! In today's episode I am interviewing a food blogger about her journey of getting to know her audience and building a business around what they need.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Tune into your audience and what they want
• Outsourcing and how that will shift over the years
• The biggest mindset shift when it comes to outsourcing

Resources:

Getting Started with Email Marketing for Food Bloggers

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

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If you've ever had that feeling of getting to the end of the week and not sure what you accomplished, you're not alone! Time management as a work from home food blogger can be tricky. In today's episode I'm sharing 4 things you might be doing that could be totally wrecking your productivity. Keep listening to learn how you can improve your time management with just a few tricks.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Not planning your week
• Avoiding CEO time
• Doing all the things
• Experimenting too often

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

Site structure is how you organize your website content. It can be a huge defining factor for not only your readers to understand your website, but also for Google to understand how all of the pages and posts on your website work together. Strengthening your site structure is something you can always be improving on. Today, I'm sharing 3 ways you can strengthen your site structure.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• What is site structure & why is it important?
• Using internal linking
• Navigation menu
• Utilize breadcrumbs

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

Have you ever considered what would happen to your business if you weren't available to run it for a few weeks or ever again? It isn't easy to think about a catastrophe happening but it's a reality we need to face as business owners! Whether that is because of a short term emergency or a death, protecting your business and setting up a plan for those types of situations can make your family's lives much easier dealing with an unexpected event. Keep listening to today's episode to learn about how you can protect your business.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• When you need to think about preparing for your business
• The first step in planning for business
• What you need to do routinely to keep up with this
• A tool to help with this

The Smart Influencer Legacy Organizer

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

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The longer you have your food blog, the more your business will evolve and grow. This can be tricky sometimes as you start to have to pivot and adjust how you are running your food blog to connect with these changes. In today's episode I'm interviewing a food blogger who redesigned her website as a result of her brand evolving over the years and feeling like it was time to create a resource for her readers.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• How did your blog evolve over the last few years?
• How did you decide it was the right time to redesign your blog?
• How did the branding process and your redesign help set your blog up as a resource for your audience?
• What was the biggest challenge in the redesign process?
• What was your favorite part of the process?
• What advice would you give to someone whose business has evolved?

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Sizzling Summer Camp - Q4 Challenge

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Have you wondered if a recipe index is necessary to have on your food blog? If you have, today's episode is for you! I'll be answering this frequently asked question about whether or not a recipe index is relevant for food blogs today.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• What is a recipe index?
• Homepage vs. recipe index vs. category pages
• Which categories should you include?
• Tips for your recipe index

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Web Design for Food Bloggers

Your website and specifically the homepage of your food blog should highlight the best content for someone who is brand new to you. The more defined this content can be, the easier it will be for someone to go from a cold organic search to eventually becoming a raving fan. In today's episode I'm sharing how to use web design to highlight your best content.

In this episode, I'll cover:

• Best content
• Popular content
• Resources
• Freebies/products/services
• Best real estate spots on your website

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Web Design for Food Bloggers