Tech SEO

Optimize your food blog’s performance, crawlability, and structured data so recipes rank reliably and delight readers.

Tech SEO

Oct 26, 2026

AI agents, Muse, and your blog's traffic (part 1)

Issue 57: AI agents are changing how people discover recipes and opening up new ways for recipes to reach readers. Today, what AI agents are, what they can do, and why food bloggers should be paying attention.

Writing

Jul 20, 2026

Semantic drift

Issue 50: Are related and fan-out queries helping or hurting your recipe SEO? Learn what semantic drift is, why it happens when optimizing for AI citations, and how to keep your recipes focused, relevant, and eligible for AI-generated answers without diluting your primary search intent.

Intermediate

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.

Intermediate

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.

Intermediate

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. 😊

Intermediate

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.

Beginner

Feb 2, 2026

10 internal linking mistakes SEO audits keep missing

Issue 38: Discover 10 critical internal linking mistakes that SEO audits overlook, and how to fix them to build a smarter internal linking strategy.

Writing

Jan 5, 2026

How to boost views without publishing new recipes

Issue 36: Single-click visits are really common on food blogs because internal links are still treated like an SEO checklist item — instead of the powerful traffic drivers they are. In this issue, internal linking as a strategy for boosting views.

Advanced

Dec 22, 2025

SEO lessons from 2025’s only spam update

Issue 35: Google’s August 2025 spam update was a big moment for food bloggers. In this issue, we highlight what the August 2025 spam update revealed, and the actions food bloggers can take right now to stay ahead of the next spam update.

Writing

Oct 13, 2025

Stop following these 5 outdated SEO rules

Issue 30: Debunk SEO myths holding food bloggers back! Learn why rigid rules like keyword stuffing and word count obsession can hinder your blog's search performance and creativity.

EEAT

Aug 4, 2025

Entity SEO for food blogs (part 2)

Issue 25: Dive into part two of our entity SEO series for food bloggers: Learn how to claim your knowledge panel and optimize author schema to boost search visibility.

EEAT

Jul 21, 2025

Entity SEO for food blogs (part 1)

Issue 24: Unlock the power of entity SEO for food blogs! Learn how strategic authorship can boost your site's topical authority and search performance in our must-read guide.

Advanced

Jul 7, 2025

Understanding AI Mode for recipes (part 2)

Issue 23: If AI Mode has you feeling everything from worry to intrigue, this newsletter will help you see that new promising opportunities do exist for food bloggers in the age of AI.

Advanced

Jun 23, 2025

Understanding AI Mode for recipes (part 1)

Issue 22: Is AI Mode really the future of how people find and make good recipes? Like most things AI, there a lot of different angles and considerations to unpack.

Content Strategy

Apr 14, 2025

Better SEO starts with better breadcrumbs

Issue 17

Content Strategy

Mar 31, 2025

Smart topic taxonomy for food blog SEO

Issue 16

Advanced

Sep 16, 2024

Star power ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (and recipe ratings manipulation)

Issue 2

Tech SEO

AI agents, Muse, and your blog's traffic (part 1)

Semantic drift

Personal Intelligence 101: what food bloggers need to know now

10 security priorities to immediately audit on your food blog

10 recipe structured data priorities to audit on your food blog

10 tech SEO priorities to audit on your food blog

10 internal linking mistakes SEO audits keep missing

How to boost views without publishing new recipes

SEO lessons from 2025’s only spam update

Stop following these 5 outdated SEO rules

Entity SEO for food blogs (part 2)

Entity SEO for food blogs (part 1)

Understanding AI Mode for recipes (part 2)

Understanding AI Mode for recipes (part 1)

Better SEO starts with better breadcrumbs

Smart topic taxonomy for food blog SEO

Star power ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (and recipe ratings manipulation)

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