142: How to Fix 5 Common Blogging Tech Mistakes with Andrew Wilder - a podcast by Bjork Ostrom
from 2018-03-20T08:00
How to choose a hosting plan, why SSL is important, and how to optimize your images with Andrew Wilder.
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Welcome to episode 142 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork talks with Andrew Wilder about the top five tech mistakes he sees on food blogs.
How to Fix 5 Common Blogging Tech Mistakes
The first time our Site Speed Expert, Andrew, was on the podcast, he chatted all about best practices for securing your website.
Now he’s back to talk about five of the most common tech mistakes he sees on blogs.
Between choosing the right hosting to optimizing images, there are a lot of tech decisions to make about your blog. Andrew’s advice will make you a lot more confident to make those decisions. Enjoy!
In this episode, Andrew shares:
- What he does at Blog Tutor
- Why good hosting is important for food blogger
- The difference between popular types of hosting plans
- How you can tell if you have good hosting
- How big your images should be and why you should be optimizing
- What a fully enhanced recipe rich card is
- What an SSL certificate is
Resources:
- Google Recipe Structured Data Guidelines
- Blog Tutor
- 020: How to Secure Your Food Blog with Andrew Wilder from Blog Tutor
- 137: One Million App Downloads in One Year with Trey George
- Byte Check
- Cloudways
- Foodie Pro
- Short Pixel
- Imagify
- 136: Optimizing for Search Results on Google and Pinterest with Raquel Smith
- 133: Optimizing Your Food Blog’s SEO with Casey Markee
- Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool
- Google Search Console
- Is it time to switch your site to all-SSL?
- Blog Tutor Plans
- Connect with Andrew at support@blogtutor.com
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com.
Thanks to our Reviewer of the Week, Jodie from Growing Book by Book! If you’d like to be featured, leave a review for us on iTunes and include your name and blog name in the review.
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