So I have been working on my food blog for about 6 months now. I have about 40 posts. I can only post 2x a week. Initially, I was waiting for my pageviews to go up before I approach companies for sponsorship of posts or free promotionl packages. But I read an article where it said do not wait for your pageviews to grow, monetize your site where you are.So because of a recent bout with antibiotics, I got interested in probiotics and in brewing my own kombucha, This led to googling kombucha kits

Hi WA peeps, So happy that after 3 rejections, one of my pics got accepted by foodgawker.com. I actually gave up on it and was not checking results anymore. I suddenly started seeing foodgawker traffic when looking at my Analytics (Acquisition, referrals), checked the results and was surprised. If you look at my last blog post, I was feeling down because a friend criticized that my pictures were not good enough.I vented out here and you guys took my side, boosted me up and gently reminded me to

I went to a birthday party last night and talked to a friendwho is also on FB and so she read my blog. She said it’s ok but (I bracedmyself)… the pictures have to have better lighting. She said that on Pinterestshe does not even click on a pin if the picture is not perfect. I think I smiled and said, yeah I am still working on myfood photograpy skills and I need to invest in some artificial lighting becauseI shoot in the early morning before work when there is no daylight. Then,

Here are my stats after 2.5 months. Overall, all numbers are climbing but I have to be patient as I know these are early days. My users grew from aug to sep from 140 to 314. My total pageviews grew from 437 to 1456 which is a 233% increase. I am happy to break the 1000 pageviews a month threshold. My posts have slowed down a bit because I worked on my landing page and subscription list. I have 35 subscribers as of now and I release a newsletter every Thursday,Got kicked out of a couple of re