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FAQs

How big is the Foodie Digital community?

100+ community members with 35+ million monthly views in our purview (and growing!).

How big is the FD team? Where is the team located?

We are a team of 5 and we’re located in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  

What kind of results have Foodie Digital members achieved?

Each member experiences a different rate of growth based on current trends, niche, quality of content, and the member’s willingness to do the work, and adapt where needed.

In a 12-month period, many Foodie Digital members have increased their traffic up to 3000%.

Members also tell us that peace of mind and better sleep are nice results of joining FD 🙂

What type of SEO do you teach at Foodie Digital?

The Foodie Digital content strategy framework teaches content and community-led SEO, and is rooted in the principles of semantic SEO. We also offer ongoing tech SEO support so that our community members stay focused on content creation.

What’s covered in your onboarding audits?

We complete several detailed and thorough audits in a member’s first month, including a:

• Site-wide audit
• Plugin audit
• Performance audit (includes Core Web Vitals)
• Technical SEO audit
• Historical traffic audit
• Recipe card audit
• Link analysis, including a nofollow compliance audit

How does your tech support work?

At FD, we offer community members tech support in four ways:

• Member benefits 🙂
• Monthly support requests
• FD extras 
• FD+ projects

When you join the Foodie Digital community we walk you through each, individually.

My host handles secure offsite backups and WordPress core updates. How is your service different?

Some hosting plans provide backups as a managed WordPress hosting service, but do you know how often they back-up your site? What are they backing up? Is it just the database or theme files too? How about WordPress core updates and plugins? And uploads? It’s hard to know what’s involved.

With a web hosting provider, you are somewhat anonymous and your support is often generic. With us, we know you, your food blog, your theme, your custom design elements and, most importantly, your timing. We can better anticipate what’s needed, and when, to support your growth.

Another benefit of having us do the updates is that we understand how and why certain plugin updates may fail. We often choose to defer specific plugin updates if we know a bug fix is coming or if we’ve seen an issue on another Foodie Digital member’s site.

Also your web hosting provider may have secure offsite backups available, but in the event of a failure how comfortable are you finding and restoring the right backup yourself?

The following site maintenance tasks are included for all levels of Foodie Digital memberships:

• Wordpress core updates
• Plugin + theme updates
• Secure offsite backups
• 24/7 uptime monitoring
• Security monitoring

What are support requests?

Monthly support requests are a big part of what we do and they’re a great tool for when you need a helping hand.

We consider a support request to be a task that takes 25 minutes or less for an FD team member to resolve. This includes proactive and responsive support — we don’t wait for you to find an issue. We make proactive suggestions all of the time. 

Examples of quick support requests include:

• Keyword research and keyword-research related questions
• Strategic editorial planning advice
• Internal linking recommendations
• Post and recipe title recommendations
• Single post traffic dip assessment
• Reusable block pattern custom development
• Plugin advice (i.e., “should I install x?”)
• Style tweaks to your theme (i.e., padding, colors, fonts, widgets)
• Style tweaks to your recipe card (i.e., rate recipe button added)
• Mobile experience tweaks (i.e., hiding unnecessary elements on mobile)
• Peeking over the fence requests (i.e., “how did blog xyz achieve that?”)
• Publishing problems (i.e., “I tried to publish a new post but it’s not showing up on my homepage. How come?”)
• Interpreting advice (i.e, “I heard about xyz on a podcast. Should I do it?”)
• Design tweaks to amplify email marketing efforts
• Recipe card plugin migration support

This is just a short list though!

What are FD+ projects?

Consistency of support is important to us. FD+ projects are custom work that we do in addition to the monthly membership.

Examples include large-scale category clean-up projects, information architecture overhauls, the development of dynamic recipe search and recipe indexes.

FD + projects are exclusively offered to FD members.

What’s the biggest difference between Mix and Make?

On a monthly basis, Make is much faster paced than Mix, and the number of monthly support requests is different: 6 a month with Make, 3 a month with Mix. 

I work with a developer. Is there a package that’s SEO only?

Like PB & J, tech support and SEO go together. We do not have plans for an SEO-only service package. 

Tech support and SEO converge all the time but for far too long they’ve been considered separate practices. We’re changing that and providing our members with holistic WordPress support.

Can you redesign my food blog or help me switch themes?

We’re flattered you asked. But no, we do design tweaks only for Foodie Digital members.

We are not a full-service custom design shop. But we do work closely with the best of the best in design in the food niche and would be happy to make an introduction.