136: Optimizing for Search Results on Google and Pinterest with Raquel Smith

Feb 6, 2018

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How to run ads on a recipe print page, optimize images for search results, and set Pinterest descriptions with Raquel Smith.

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Welcome to episode 136 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork talks with Raquel Smith about how optimize search results on Google and Pinterest.

Optimizing for Search Results on Google and Pinterest

Structured data, optimization, and rich snippets are common things for bloggers to think about, but just because they’re common doesn’t mean they’re easy to understand.

If SEO talk is enough to make your head spin, you’re not alone, so Raquel is here to make recipe SEO much more approachable and understandable. She has managed the development of WP Tasty’s two WordPress plugins, Tasty Recipes and Tasty Pins, and you’ll learn how these plugins can have a major impact on your recipes.

In this episode, Raquel shares:

How she get started with Food Blogger Pro
The difference between WP Tasty and Tasty Recipes
What a recipe plugin is and why it’s important
What Googlebot is
How to run ads on a recipe print page
What rich snippets are and how they’re different from rich cards
How to optimize images for search results
What Gutenberg is
If you need to optimize for everything
The problem that Tasty Pins is solving
Why a blogger might hide an image from a post

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