Name of Your Blog
Debbie does Dining
URL of your blog
debbiedoesdining.typepad.com
Do you accept comments from readers?
yes
What is Your Favourite Food Blog?
What's for School Lunch / This is Why You're Fat / Roadfood.com
How Old is Your Blog and How Often Do You Write it?
Been writing since October 2009. I generally post 2 or 3 times a week.
What Inspired You to Start Writing Your Blog?
I found myself enthusing to people all the time about meals I'd eaten or products I'd found so thought I may as well write it down. I also enjoy writing and won a national review writing competition when I was younger so it's a creative outlet, showing to myself and others that it's a skill I still have.
Thirdly, it's a useful, evocative record for myself of where I've been and my experiences. Fourthly, a partly unintended consequence has been a real deepening of my food knowledge and becoming part of the online food blogging/tweeting community.
Advice
- Be very careful choosing the name. You'll be stuck with it and it's how people will know you
- If you want an international audience, you'll need to review things that are internationally available
- You can boost hits by posting a link to your review on, e.g. a relevant discussion thread on another site
- Follow the zeitgeist - you can get massive hits from reviewing something everyone's talking about, e.g. the new restaurant opening
- Go crazy with your tagging - enter all the keywords you can think of - just brain dump all the words you can think of relating to the topic
