030: How to Customize Your Recipe Index

As a food blogger, this page can be a super valuable resource for your audience. I’ll break down what a recipe index and what it should have. Then I’ll be sharing 4 different ways you can customize a recipe index to fit your audience AND finally how you can promote your recipe index so people actually see it!

In this episode, we'll cover:

• What is a recipe index?
• How does a recipe index differ from your homepage?
• 4 Different Ways to Customize Your Recipe Index
  • 1. All recipes with category buttons
  • 2. Recipe index template that’s part of your theme
  • 3. Page with category images/buttons to link to category pages
  • 4. Advanced recipe index with filtering
• Promoting Your Recipe Index Ways to promote your recipe index:
  • Navigation
  • Link to it from your homepage
  • Put it after your blog posts
  • Add it to your sidebar
  • Highlight it in your emails
  • Talk about it on social media
• Take Action

Resources mentioned: 

• 027: What Should Be on the Homepage of Your Food Blog
• 029: 5 Emails You Can Send to Your List Right Now

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