How To Start a Food Blog And Make Money (Guide 2024)

According to reliable statistics, food blogging is the most profitable niche to make money online. So if you have good skills to make recipes then here is the complete guide on how to start a food blog in 2024 to share your cooking experience with the world in the most profitable way. In this post, I will share step by step process to start your own food blog to make money.

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• How To Start Food Blog in 2024
• Step 1: Find Your Food Blog Niche
• Step 2: Choose Catchy Food Blog Name
• Step 3: Register Domain and Hosting
• Step 4: Install WordPress & Food Blog Theme
• Step 5: Blog Branding
• Step 6: Write Your Blog Post
• Step 7: How to Make Money Blogging
• Food Blogging FAQs
• Food Blog Resources

Are you working or staying at home? Food blogging can bring exciting opportunities to earn money. According to the stats, many food bloggers started as part-time now working as full time as it gives more money than a full time job.

So are you excited to start your own food blog? Let's delve into it!

How To Start Food Blog in 2024

Here I am sharing step by step guide from scratch that will help you to start your journey of food blogging as a serious blogger.

First, let me share with you the food blogging journey starts with food, recipes, cooking, and mouthwatering food pictures. If you are ready and have the experience and interest to manage all this then you are ready to start your food blog.

Step 1: Find Your Food Blog Niche

Blog niche based on a specialized subject depends upon your interest and experience to write targeted blog content. It will connect you with your audience.

Are you thinking, food blogging is niche specific? then why to find niche?

Yes, you are right! but we have to vertically delve to make it more target specific.

Let me share examples that will give you niche ideas to start food blogging:

Food Blog Idea #1:
Start Food Photography Blog

If you have good skills in food photography so you can take food pictures and start a blog to share people your skills in food photography in the same way you can sell pictures on your blog/website to make money. You can also monetize the blog with potential advertisers.

Food Blog Idea #2:
Start as Cooking Expert or Recipe Blogger

If you love cooking then you can shoot your cooking video and share recipe through video or written or in the form of a podcast to your blog. People love to watch recipe videos as it's easy to note down the steps.

Food Blog Idea #3
Food Tips and Trick Blog

The third idea is simple but most effective and a majority of people doing this and making huge money. You can simply share your cooking recipes, cooking tips, and cooking skills with your readers. For this, you can search the most demanding keywords and apply to your food blog. It will improve your blog traffic and also help to grow as a serious blogger. Later, you can add a shop to your blog to sell cooking accessories, cookbooks, and affiliated cooking products.

Above are the simple ideas that you can adapt to start your blogging journey with success.

The first step of starting food blogging is to judge your niche like how you want to present your blog and what are the key skills that can make you different from others.

When you going to start a blog, you have two choices:

1. Make it yourself
2. Design by the Website designer

If you want to start a blog by yourself and keen to design it then the below steps will guide you.

Step 2: Choose Catchy Food Blog Name

Blogging is simple and effective if you start with an attractive and catchy blog name. It seems like a daunting task as most of the good names have been taken. I am saying this because you will register the domain name matching the same blog name so it needs to be available. Domain name is the blog URL or you can call it a blog address like mine is hinzcooking dot com.

Attributes of Good Blog Name:

• It needs to be simple and attractive.
• Must be Short, as it's easy to remember and recall.
• Easy to pronounce.
• Also easy to understand.

List of 40 Food Blog Names (Ideas with Available Domain)

After finding the blog name, you will register the domain and take the hosting package.

If you are on a budget then you can take the domain and web hosting in a single package where the domain will be free.

Here you can look into best hosting services to make your choice.

If you are still indecisive about hosting service provider...

Here, I can simply suggest you if are unable to choose your host go with Bluehost as they provide quality service and trusted provider in the market.

Also, you may have a look at Bluehost hosting package, and here are their discounted rates for you.

Step 3: Register Domain and Hosting

So in this post, I am showing you step by step process to register a domain and hosting with BlueHost.

1. Click on the link to get discount rates.
2. Then, click on 'Get Started Now'
3. Choose 'Basic Package'. It will be ideal for you to get started. When you start getting more traffic then you can upgrade the package accordingly.
4. Click 'Select' under the Basic package.
5. It will ask you to add domain name that you want to register.
6. Click 'Next'.
7. It will ask you to write your account information.
8. Also, add package information according to your budget starting from 1 year to onwards.
9. Next, add payment information.
10. Mark check on 'Terms and conditions.
11. Click 'Submit'
12. Next, you will receive account information to get login details to your CPanel through email.

Now, move to next step:

Use WordPress as your CMS (content management system). It's the best open-source platform to design user-friendly and responsive websites and blogs.

Step 4: Install WordPress & Food Blog Theme

Check this link to install WordPress from Bluehost step by step. It's simple and easy just need little concentration if you are doing it the first time.

SEE: How to install WordPress from CPanel

Now the most amazing step comes up. You will choose a WordPress theme for your blog. I suggest you to choose something related to your niche. It will help you to manage things quickly.

Here are some free themes that you can choose. Also, you have the option to buy premium themes as well. Let me know if you need more details about it.

Download your preferred theme using the Free theme link and upload on WordPress by going through below steps.

How to Upload WordPress Theme

1. Go to your WordPress dashboard.
2. From left navigation, choose Themes.
3. Click on it and upload your blog theme here.

Steps to Make Dashboard Settings:

1. Again, go to left navigation, and choose Setting option.
2. Click on General tab and add 'Site Title', URL, 'Tagline', and other details.
3. In the same way, choose 'Reading' from the Setting option and click on your latest post.
4. Now, number it. Like; how many posts do you want to make visible on the first page.

Install Recommended Plugins:

To install more widgets and plugins, you have to go to WordPress dashboard and choose 'Plugin' option from there. Click on Add New to install new plugins. Below is the list that you can follow to install plugins.

• Yoast SEO will help to write an SEO friendly or keyword-based post.
• Contact Form 7  to add a contact form to your blog.
• Install 'WP Recipe Maker' plugin
• WP Fastest Cache to improve your website speed.
• Pin It Button will help to share your post on Pinterest.
• Add to Any Share Button to share your post on social media with your visitors.

Go to the Plugin page from the dashboard left navigation and install all the plugins and don't forget to activate to make them functional.

Now you are almost ready to launch your 'food blog'. Write compelling content and amazing blog post in a consistent manner. Blogging is tricky and challenging in initial days but with time, you will learn more tactics to grow as a professional blogger.

Step 5: Blog Branding

It's essential to provide a catchy look to your blog to stand out in a big competition. For this, you need a consistent look to match the branding elements.

1. Get a Blog Logo: You can use Canva or you can also take professional logo design help.
2. Match The Blog Color: Use the Logo colors to match your blog design.
3. Focus on Fonts: Typography is important to match the blog's consistency. Use the right fonts for the heading and body.

Step 6: Write Your Blog Post

From the WordPress dashboard, choose 'Post' option from the left navigation. It will lead you to post writing page.

Now start writing your post. First, add Title and then add post content. You can check the toolbar to add links and other things. It's simple and easy and same as you work on Microsoft Word.

Now define your theme category/tags.

Add Image.

Now, Publish your first blog post.

Voila! You have published your first blog post as food blogger 🙂

Keep writing blog posts as it's the only way to become successful.

Here are some more important steps to grow as a successful blogger.

Now we are going to share more info to use your blog as a Business. Let's have a look step by step:

Step 7: How to Make Money Blogging

Blogging is fruitful if you are making money from your blog. On a personal note, if you are doing an effort, and putting your time into blogging then it's a good thing to conduct like a business and get handsome money to transform your life in a good way. Things that you need to do to make money from your blog.

1) Start Your Shop on Your Blog

First and best option to create your own product rather going on someone else product. As a food blogger, you can create your own book to sell. If you can manage you can teach other food bloggers like how they can start. You can also sell some product related to the kitchen. You can sell your food pictures. So there are so many options that you can explore to make money from your blog.

For this, you just need to install WooCommerce plugin on your WordPress and you can create your product to sell.

2) Use Affiliated Links

Next option is to use affiliate links in your blog which will help you to sell someone else product by using your blog. As the product will sell, you will get a small commission on that. Be remember, to add an affiliate product that is related to your business niche. Also, make sure to add a product that you personally used or trust otherwise it will harm your blog reputation. Most important to add a proper disclaimer in your blog post and show it to your user that you will get a commission on the selling of these products. Don't hide anything!!

Below are the Affiliated sites that you can use to promote products:

• Amazon affiliates
• Clickbank

3) Monetize Food Blog

Blog monetization is quite common and you can do it for your blog as well. For this, the most famous and trusted ad program by Google is Google Adsense that you can join and place ads on your blog in multiple places.

By using ad network program, you can make money on the basis of Impressions and Clicks. 

In a simple way, for every 1000 page views you will get $1 and if somebody clicking ads posted on your blog then you will get small commision set by an ad company.

Alternative is Shedmedia, Mediavine and Adthrive (Raptive).

Food Blogging FAQs

Top food blog for Inspiration:

• Explore Nagi's blog RecipeTin Eats
• Minimalist Baker best to get Vegan food recipes
• Newyork food blog - Smitten Kitchen
• Budget Bytes
• Cafe Delites

Food Blog Resources

Please note that this page contains affiliate links that pay me sale commission. I only link to products that I personally use and trust. Thank you for your support and understanding.