I write how-to and recipe hubs. I know the recipe hubs will make money eventually but I have read that technical hubs get more views. What is your thoughts or experience on this topic?
I really don't know for sure other than present trends. I think it is discovering a niche for writing articles in a popular trend that is pretty 'green'. Like recipes are green and trends come and go while cycling with seasons. Baked chicken vs. grilled chicken with winter and summer. Probably need both articles to keep the portfolio strong when an article is discovered.
What Crazyhorseghost shares with me most with the food topics are on the fly foods for the hectic lifestyles we live today. I am thankful for that insight shared. Meatballs can be grilled, baked, stewed, and who knows how many ways served. Swedish, Mexican (Albagonda), and so forth. Tons of articles. One could become the meatball expert of the internet
I think both of those are good topics - no need to pick and choose - do both, and see which one works better for you. It really depends on the content - whether it meets what people are looking for, and whether you have presented it well.
You can start with Google/trends and type in "recipe" to find out the top related words being searched with recipe. This might give you an ideal of what most people are searching for.
A good strategy is to make recipes that use those keywords.
If recipes are your specialty, keep doing it, just give the public what it's searching for and skip the rest.
You might try focusing on "product-centered" recipes, like making a cake using the new mixer for example. Focus your writing on the use of the product which has a high value and you can add as the Amazon advertisement.
It's hard to make money with recipes when all you can sell in the ads are $10 recipe books that your readers didn't want anyway, they read you hub because they wanted a free recipe......
My passion is technical writing and I have the same problem as....
RichFatCat, thanks for mentioning the Google Trends search- I had not seen this before. Very interesting!
You can do really well with recipes. Especially if you can create a popular blog with your own adsense on it where you get paid 100 percent of the money.
But I do very well here at Hub Pages with my Recipe Hubs. I have some that have half a million views and a few with almost a million views. I'll even tell you here that the most popular foods on the top foods list is.
1. Chocolate Cake
2. Meatballs
3. Pork Chops
4. Chocolate Chip Cookies
5. Pasta Salad
6. Bread
7. Spaghetti
8. Pasta Sauce
9. Banana Bread
10. Baked Chicken
I'm going to give you an example here. Make a Hub Page called Amazing Baked Chicken Recipes. Make sure that your main key word which is " Baked Chicken " is used 2.5 - 2.7 percent on the entire Hub Page.
Have the long tail key word " Amazing Baked Chicken Recipes " to show up on the Hub Page 2.5 to 2.7 percent.
If you can bake a chicken and take photos of it. Then cut it up and make photos of it. Write good descriptions in the Title of the Photo Capsule. Give yourself credit for your photos in the Source Box. Write a great description of what is in the photo under it.
Chocolate Cake is the most searched food item right now.
I hope that helps someone.
@crazyhorsesghost boy did it ever help. A million views for recipes is exciting and awesome. Well done. I appreciate the list and thank you for the writing lesson. Great advice. I am excited now.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing. I learned . . . Do you do a lot of SEO techniques besides those shared? I am rethinking everything. Kind of a clean slate approach writing just to keep stats up for now. I am happy and offer a congrats with discovering a niche that works
@RichFatCat I have been having trouble seeing how keywords work. I appreciate your info on google trends and writing tips. Thank you.
The most popular topics on the internet can often be over-saturated and/or highly-competitive, making them not the best choices frequently.
You want to write about something that will be more popular a year from now.
I decided to turn a short story into Hubs to resolve Adsense issues, and now Googling the title (which is mentioned only once in each Hub) pulls up all of them even when they had no views.
OH @relache That is a very interesting concept that i didn't think of. So what you are saying is to be unique somehow.
To be blatantly honest, the most popular topics on the internet are cats, Doctor Who, Attack on Titan, Godzilla, "Let It Go," all things Disney, Pusheen (goes along with cats), Firefly, bacon, and Game of Thrones.
I wish I cooked more. But I do think I could do how to articles well. Thanks for the advice.
I wish I cooked more. But I do think I could do how to articles well. Thanks for the advice.
I think both of those are very popular base topics, if you can incorporate what's popular right now, and even more so what will stay trendy for a long time that's best. I also find that people often search for "tips/tricks" for many things. From losing weight, to cooking and games, etc.
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