Food Blog

8 Tips For Starting A Successful Food Blog (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own food blog? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a food blog:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a food blog?
-> Pros and cons of a food blog

Need inspiration?

-> Other food blog success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a food blog
-> Food blog names
-> Food blog Instagram bios
-> Food blog Instagram captions

Other resources

-> Profitability of a food blog
-> Blog post ideas for a food blog

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a food blog:

#1: Lexi Harrison, founder of Crowded Kitchen:

We chatted with with Lexi, founder of Crowded Kitchen ($17K/month). In our interview, Lexi says:

There’s SO much that goes into a successful blog. Improving SEO is essentially a never-ending process, but there’s incredible potential to make huge ad revenue over time.

Additionally:

We haven’t ever had content go crazy viral on social media and gained 10k followers overnight, but we have been incredibly consistent over the last several years and have grown a high-quality organic audience as a result.

Further:

Do your research early on. Especially when it comes to SEO and website best practices! I’ve had to essentially re-write almost every single post on the blog (of which there are hundreds) more than once over the last few years.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Mason Woodruff, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes:

We chatted with with Mason, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes ($26K/month). In our interview, Mason says:

Making $10k/month from my business was once a dream. As soon as I reached that number, the goal moved to $20k, then $30k, and now $40k. It’s important to find enjoyment in the work and where you’re at now instead of constantly chasing the next goal.

Additionally:

Once you find what’s working, triple down on that. We’ve had a breakthrough this year with our content creation process and overall blogging strategy

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Mason Woodruff, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes:

We chatted with with Mason, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes ($26K/month). In our interview, Mason says:

I’d encourage you to make sure you’re working on the right things and not be afraid to scrap what’s not working.

Read the full interview ➜

#4: Mason Woodruff, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes:

We chatted with with Mason, founder of Kinda Healthy Recipes ($26K/month). In our interview, Mason says:

Perfect is the enemy of good. If I’d waited for perfection to start, I’d still be waiting.

Additionally:

As a creator, your core audience is the ultimate asset in your business. As they say, earning trust takes forever but destroying it takes seconds. If you’re unsure about a partnership, don’t do it.