Writing a blog is more than just writing and pictures. There's all the tech behind the scenes that needs to be taken care of. Today we showcase 9 articles written to help make sense of all the jargon and let you get on with what you do best... creating great content!
Check out the slideshow for 9 great articles to help you with your SEO, WordPress plugins, blog layout, understanding no follow links and more!
9 Simple Articles to Help With Your Blog Tech
By Food Bloggers of Canada
You may have a deep understanding of food & want to share it, but you may not have the tech skills to match. These articles can help you improve the design, usability, and SEO of your blog.
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7 Tips to Instantly Improve Reader Friendliness
By Food Bloggers of Canada
In the beginnings of FBC, co-founder Melissa Hartfiel read every blog of the communities' 300+ members. She found some bad habits and [has shared some simple tips](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2012/01/blogging-101-7-tips-to-instantly-make-your-blog-more-reader-friendly/) to make your readers smile.
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Using Photos to Improve Your Food Blog’s SEO
By Food Bloggers of Canada
SEO is a mystery and often billed as the Holy Grail of blogging. There are tones of supposed ways to optimize SEO; using photos has been proven. [Learn how and why with through this quick read](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2011/09/seo-101-using-photos-to-improve-your-food-blogs-seo/).
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Understanding How to Use H Tags In Your Food Blog
By Food Bloggers of Canada
To write a blog, you don't need to know how to write HTML, but you should understand some of it. Especially [Heading tags and how to use them](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2012/07/seo-101-understanding-how-to-use-h-tags-in-your-food-blog/).
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7 Ways to Make Your Blog Load Faster, at No Cost
By Food Bloggers of Canada
If a webpage took just 30 seconds to load, you'd give up. Don't let that happen to people who want to read your blog. [Speed it up with these tips that won't cost you a penny](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2013/10/seven-easy-ways-to-make-your-blog-load-faster-without-spending-a-penny/)!
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How To Increase Your Blog’s Page Views Per Visit
By Food Bloggers of Canada
Bloggers not so secretly love traffic and there are many ways to optimize it. [Increasing page views per visit](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2013/07/how-to-increase-your-blogs-page-views-per-visit/) is one method to make a major difference. Try out a few of these simple tactics.
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Everything You Need to Know About Nofollow Links
By Food Bloggers of Canada
You may not know what they are, but nofollow links are actually very important. This article, by Shareba Abdul, concisely details the [who, what, where, when, why, and how of nofollow links](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2013/11/everything-bloggers-need-to-know-about-nofollow-links/).
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Checking for Broken Links
By Food Bloggers of Canada
A little old, but this post is very impactful. You may have broken links and not even know it. As a reader, finding the 404 PAGE NOT FOUND error is aggravating. [Use these tools to fix it](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2014/01/the-january-blog-challenge-day-27-broken-links/).
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20 Essential WordPress Plugins for Food Bloggers
By Food Bloggers of Canada
Finding the right WordPress plug-ins for food bloggers can be an intimidating task for new and experienced bloggers alike. Here’s a list of [20 of our favourite WordPress plug-ins to try](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2014/07/20-essential-wordpress-plugins-for-food-bloggers/).
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The Five Most Important Elements of a Blog Layout
By Food Bloggers of Canada
Everybody loves discovering great content, but who likes stumbling around a clumsy design that makes it hard to access said content? Good design is not rocket science and it goes a long way. Here are [the 5 most important elements of a blog design](https://www.foodbloggersofcanada.com/2014/06/the-five-most-important-elements-of-a-blog-layout/).
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Great graphic! Who’s the designer?
it’s a stock image from shutterstock.com. We just added the title. 🙂
Thank you Melissa. I still don’t quite understand how to use H tags for the blogger platform. Is this only for wordpress?
Helene, it’s been a while since I’ve been in the blogger interface but I do believe in the post editor you have the choice between Compose or HTML. If you use the HTML window you can manually add h tags. If you’re in the compose menu, I think there’s a drop down box you can use that lets you choose between “normal, heading, sub heading, etc”. Normal would be a regular paragrahp and heading is probably h2, subheading is probably h3 etc. I hope that helps!
Thanks Melissa, I will have a look and see if it’s working!
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