It’s hard to believe, but Running on Real Food just had it’s two year anniversary at the end of January! With two years of experience behind me, I wanted to share a bit of advice for new bloggers. During the last 2 years blogging was very much a hobby that didn’t always receive priority in my…
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Better Blogging Series: 6 Tools and Apps to Help Grow and Manage Your Blog
While I work on compiling a larger list of tools, plugins and apps I use for blogging, I thought I’d share the few I use the most. I’ve found I consistently use these few tools to help me manage and monitor social media, keep track of post ideas and save important articles and information I…
20 Delicious and Healthy Vegan Food Blogs
I’ve been discovering so many amazing new blogs lately and I don’t think they’re all getting the recognition they deserve, so it’s time for another round-up of healthy vegan food blogs! If you missed part 1 of must-follow healthy vegan food blogs, check out: 20 of the Best Vegan Blogs to Follow All these lovely…
Better Blogging Series: 15 Quick Tips for Pinterest Success
For most bloggers, and definitely for all food bloggers, Pinterest can’t be ignored as an important piece of your online marketing strategy. Personally, it’s by far the top referring source of traffic to Running on Real Food, in fact when I started paying a bit more attention to Pinterest I more than doubled the traffic to…
Better Blogging: 3 Simple Steps to Optimize Images for Your WordPress Blog
You can’t ignore the importance of quality images on your blog, especially if you’re a food blogger. While I’m still learning and trying to improve my food photography skills (gosh darn, it’s SO hard!), there are some important aspects of preparing photos for the web beyond the actual quality of the images. Properly prepared images…
Better Blogging: 5 Simple Tips for a PR-Friendly Blog
Welcome to the new Better Blogging Series on Running on Real Food! In this new blog feature I’ll be sharing my knowledge of web and design in posts about everything from basic HTML and CSS, preparing images for the web, working in WordPress, SEO, design, marketing your blog and more. For the first post in…