Tips on Recipe Blogging

Are you thinking of getting into recipe blogging? If so, there are a few things to keep in mind in order to make your blog a success. Running a recipe blog can be fun - but keep in mind that you’ll still want to make it successful and use the standard techniques of blogging. But, keep these extra tips in mind as you start your recipe blog.Recipe copyrights. According to US copyright law, lists of ingredients are not copyrighted - only the instructions and any descriptions before the recipe are. Though I advocate making your articles as original as possible, you won’t get into trouble with copyright law for using the ingredients in another recipe and making your instructions 100% unique.
Spice up the recipes. If you do decide to use the ingredient list in another recipe for your recipe blogging, you might want try to find a way to give the ingredients a twist to make them unique. For example, if the recipe calls for 1 c. of orange juice, you can write “1 c. fresh squeezed orange juice” in your recipe. The more unique the recipe looks, the better it will be for your blog’s popularity.
Make it long enough. Recipes simply aren’t usually long enough to get seen by the search engines. To avoid this problem, make sure each recipe has it’s own post and that you make the recipe description a little longer. Shoot for at least 25o word posts, but 300 words is even better.
Give credit. If you decided to borrow the recipe from someone, such as a family member or if you took it out of a cookbook, the nice thing to do is give the person credit - even if you adapted it. You can say something like, “I adapted this recipe from an old Italian cookbook that my mother has on her book shelf.” It gives you more credibility, makes the recipe blog fun to read, and gives credit where it’s due.
Use these tips to help you with your recipe blogging and to make it the best it could be!