Anybody here in the online food blog/cooking biz?

Kaedus said:
I disagree to a point. The photography is what drives the large amounts of traffic. You can get a lot of benefit from doing a little reading. There are some good resources on food photography, and then even after the picture I suggest putting some text on the picture saying what the dish is.
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I agree completely. As I also said, he needs to genuinely love to take photographs.

What I was trying to say was that it is not really a deal breaker as not everybody is a great photographer. I was not clear.
Because the food blogging community is... kind of incestual. Even on pinterest. Even if you don't have too great photos, they will still pin you back. Even the big bloggers.. As long as yoiu are not stealing pictures :)

If you know how to take great food pics, then it is a total win. It will just market by itself :)

And one must be beware of stealing food photography. Food bloggers are nice, but they are a bitchy bunch and take their pictures too seriously :p
 


Cooking, Food Education/Gastronomy & Lifestyle may seem loosely related. But they are all very different niches.

I love cooking. But for the life of me, I can never spend hours setting up a recipe blog and post studio quality pics of my dishes everyday. That is limited to wives of web designers who spend their entire day in the kitches, or large cooking outlets who pay women to achieve the same in a studio environment.

I am in the food education/gastronomy niche. I source my photos from istock or deposit photos here. Mainly because I don't need pictures of readymade, well-plated delicacies here, rather beautiful pics of their incredients.
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I have built a forum based around this niche. And I am sure a wonderful app can be built around an aggregator in this niche.

I used to be in the lifestyle niche. But I sold the property (an iOS app targeted at men) about a year ago. The current owner has been working own porting it to android for a year now. Don't know why they don't have it yet. Bah! Some people..

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I'd be happy to answer some questions for you, to the best of my knowledge. However, I'd appreciate if you'd ask them publicly, so that others can benefit out of the same too.

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The most important factors here is testing. I've asked people to do this before as well - but people seem to reply on third party advice for some reason.

Set aside $1k for the site, if you're exploring a niche. Build out a basic version of what you envison and throw some Google traffic + Facebook traffic at it. The response you receive should get you a very good idea about how well your niche is going down with your target demographics. Spending on both PPC platforms will give you an idea of how well your site can do organically on search engines as well as through a social platform (in terms of conversions). Build a list. Get laid a lot. Build the next Yummly!

May the force be with you.
 
My first site when I got into IM was in the cooking niche. Ranked #3 for the keyword I was targeting. But it was a shitty keyword I wasn't able to monetize.
 
Island said:
My first site when I got into IM was in the cooking niche. Ranked #3 for the keyword I was targeting. But it was a shitty keyword I wasn't able to monetize.
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Before I even think about buying a domain, I ask myself "How am I going to monetize this?"

Adsense can answer that question in a lot of cases, but I usually like to start with a different answer.
 
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