Intermediate

Jul 6, 2026

How to publish similar recipes without creating content cannibalization

Issue 49: Recipe cloning can be a really effective strategy, but only if you get the details right. Miss a few key steps, and your recipes may end up competing against each other. After today, you’ll know how to confidently plan and publish, or update similar recipes without creating internal content cannibalization.

Jun 8, 2026

Personal Intelligence 101: what food bloggers need to know now

Issue 47: It’s early days for Google’s new “Personal Intelligence” feature, but it’s shaping up to be one of the biggest shifts in recipe discovery in years. By blending a user’s private data with information across the web, it will change how some home cooks find and interact with recipes. In this issue, we walk through four recipe-specific scenarios so you can start to visualize what’s coming.

May 25, 2026

10 security priorities to immediately audit on your food blog

Issue 46: AI has made attacking websites faster, cheaper, and easier — and food blogs are not immune. A single security gap can lead to downtime, lost traffic, ranking drops, and major stress. Today, 10 security priorities to audit on your food blog, including one simple task that'll immediately lower your risk.

Apr 27, 2026

10 recipe structured data priorities to audit on your food blog

Issue 44: Today, we look at recipe structured data use on food blogs, highlighting common issues that can build up over time creating bigger SEO problems. For example, something as simple as writing “30m” (rather than “30 minutes”) for cook time is invalid formatting. As this issue shows, the devil really is in the (structured data) details. 😊

Mar 30, 2026

10 tech SEO priorities to audit on your food blog

Issue 42: Tech SEO audits are great at spotting problems — often treating them all like five-alarm fires. But they rarely flag what’s truly urgent, leaving you buried in info. Today, we’re cutting through the noise with 10 tech SEO priorities to audit on your food blog.

Mar 16, 2026

Reader Q: When and how should I update posts?

Issue 41: Learn a simple, proactive approach for updating your recipe posts. Includes a monthly schedule you can follow using your own Google Search Console data.

Jan 19, 2026

Know what readers click on (free tool tip inside!)

Issue 37: One of the best ways to understand reader satisfaction is to study your food blog’s second-click data. Today, a nifty free tool in Google Analytics 4 that shows exactly which links readers click within posts.

Oct 27, 2025

A meh intro? That’s a missed SEO opportunity

Issue 31: Outside of the title you write, blog post intros are primo SEO real estate. If your intros are running on autopilot, or doubling as keyword dump zones, it’s time to shake things up—and today’s newsletter shows you how.

Aug 18, 2025

Winners and losers of the June 2025 core update

Issue 26: Uncover the key winners and losers in Google's June 2025 core update, revealing how smart food blogs can thrive by prioritizing brand storytelling over keyword chasing.

Jun 9, 2025

Surviving Google’s AI Overviews: A guide for food blogs

Issue 21

May 12, 2025

Redistributing and syndicating recipes in a way that’s SEO friendly

Issue 19

Apr 14, 2025

Better SEO starts with better breadcrumbs

Issue 17

Mar 17, 2025

Food blogs under 2 years old with exploding traffic

Issue 15

Mar 3, 2025

Google drops 2 major SEO hints in 1 week

Issue 14

Jan 20, 2025

Correcting keyword research mistakes, plus 6 example fixes

Issue 11

Jan 6, 2025

Exact-match keyword use is dead

Issue 10

Dec 23, 2024

Winners and losers from the Aug and Nov 2024 core updates

Issue 9

Nov 11, 2024

It’s time to get your comment section fired up and working for you 🔥

Issue 6

Nov 7, 2024

Liane from Foodie Digital: "Stop doing these 4 things"

Oct 28, 2024

Y'all, over optimizing is unhelpful

Issue 5

Oct 14, 2024

Quit keyword chasing

Issue 4

Sep 30, 2024

Traffic changes for recipe sites since Aug 2024's core update

Issue 3

Sep 2, 2024

Click, stick, satisfy: the recipe search playbook

Issue 1