Friday, May 3, 2013

Starting A Collection Of Dessert Recipe Blogs

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By Alison Wilcox


A special occasion calls for a special dessert. Most families have a collection of recipes that have accumulated over the years. How these recipes are organized and shared may differ. Setting up a collection of dessert recipe blogs is one way to streamline the process.

Coming up with a domain name is the first step in creating a blog. The name should be relevant, but short and as simple as possible. This makes it harder than it sounds as each domain name can be registered to only one user. You may really like a certain name only to find out it is not available. If this is the case try adding a phrase that helps describe your content to the original name.

The next step will be choosing a web host. This is a company that may be located anywhere in the world that allows customers to purchase space to store blogs and websites on their servers. Many also offer registration of domain names, for free or a fee. What hosting provider you choose will depend upon how much money you want to spend and what services are available.

You will need to choose a blogging platform or system to create your dessert recipe blog. Choose a platform based on your needs and experience. Some platforms are free, and allow you to post affiliate links to earn money. They usually have several free templates available to let you design your own pages, but only to fit the template.

Blogging platforms that cost money may offer more options to customize your layout. If you know HTML you have even more options. While free to use blogging platforms may have space restrictions, systems you pay for will let you pay to add space as needed. If your intent is to create several blogs and earn money, it is easier to set up with a paid host that will provide the needed space before you run out and have to switch over.

Practice laying out your pages using different templates and color schemes before you go live. Blogs are ultimately a collection of posts. The newest posts is published at the top of the page. As additional posts are added, older posts move down the page and after a time get archived.

Unique content will help get your blog recognized by viewers and by the search engines. This is especially necessary if you want to make money from your writing. You may write the content yourself, or have others write content for you.

Whether you write your own material, or purchase posts from other writers, be aware of copyright restrictions. Recipes are not copyrighted per se, only the steps and how they are written. A list of ingredients may not be copyrighted. If you use recipes from other sources, get written permission first and always credit the source. The same applies to images and photos on your dessert recipe blogs. If you provide the images, credit yourself. Image sites post directions on how to credit their pictures.




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