Recipe Cards For Blog
I love food, but I don’t always love to cook, so you’re not likely to find any recipes on my blog any time soon ––though, never say never, right? 😉
But recently one of my clients wanted to be able to put printable recipe cards in her food blogs. After scouring the interwebs, she couldn’t find a whole lot on the topic, specifically for Squarespace sites, and promptly came to me for some advice.
I did some research and asked my fellow designer friends what, if anything, they liked using for this and found some great options.
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There is one post “out there” saying that the lack of this feature is what encouraged her to move her whole blog off of Squarespace …and over to Wordpress, just for the easy-to-manage, printable recipe cards (basically). 😳 Yikes!
Just in case you’re having similar thoughts, and if –like her– you found a blog tutorial for a Markdown block system with a ton of HTML coding it to create these recipe cards on Squarespace…we need to do some myth-busting so you can make a more informed decision about which platform is right for you –no matter which one you choose.
Not necessarily. WordPress is better if you want ads on your site, for sure. Google AdWords (as of posting) doesn’t play nicely with Squarespace (in fact, I’m not sure it works with Squarespace at all, but that depends on who you ask). That said, if your main source of revenue is intended to be from ad sales, which you display on/around your blog and your recipes, then yes WordPress will be a better option.
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But if your business generates income through another method, like my client, who works with her clients individually and in groups, then ad sales shouldn’t be a consideration.
Or, if you prefer your website to be distraction-free, clean, minimal, modern, –and you hate it when you go to someone’s recipe blog to find something new to make for dinner and you’re bombarded with popups, moving pictures, banner images, and #allthethings –again, ad sales shouldn’t be a consideration.
And I say this as someone who actually uses that Print button on recipe cards when it’s available. But when it’s not, there are lots of ways to keep that recipe on hand for later, whether it’s:
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My opinion: Not having it quickly printable may technically be a ‘con’ but it’s not (in my opinion) going to stop people from coming back to your blog for more recipes, especially if your recipes are easy to follow when they try them out at home, and (most importantly) they’re delicious!
One of my favorite recipe blogs has an ugly website, but I keep going back to it because I can find recipes easily and they do have print buttons (they win 2 out 3). If you have an attractive, modern
Website, people can find your recipes easily, but it doesn’t have a print button, then you’ve still got 2 out of 3!
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Real-life example: nutritionist-to-the-stars Kelly Leveque uses Squarespace and her recipes 1) do not have recipe cards, and 2) are not printer-friendly; but they ARE easy to read online, quick to make, and taste good.
PrinterFriendly.com has a button set you can embed into any/all of your recipe posts so that users can access a printer-friendly version of your post. Not only that but when the user clicks the Print button embedded in your blog (while it can be slow to react), the popup dialogue box allows users to delete content from the print preview so they can print only what they want, and not what they don’t –saving ink, paper & money!
❶ RecipesGenerator.com is an affordable (currently costs about $6/mo) solution for creating recipe cards you can embed on your blog. While it is a 2-step process, logging into RecipesGenerator to create the recipe card, then logging into your Squarespace site to embed it in a post, –RG does optimize the content in that card to make it Google-friendly for you! It also comes with lots of perks, including:
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❷ PrinterFriendly.com also has a paid Pro version with a few extra perks, though it still doesn’t match what RecipesGenerator has to offer. This version comes with ad-free use (no ads on the confirmation window, or elsewhere), it’s faster with a better user interface, and more.
Have you ever noticed that when you look up a recipe, there’s a story about how they created the recipe, or how it was handed down in the family, or some trial-and-error story about how it took 20 tries to perfect this recipe… ?
That’s because Google does not understand that they’re sharing a recipe vs. general content, and it assumes that longer posts are more helpful posts… but recipes don’t tend to be long. So, the compromise on this is to create more fluff content that is related to the recipe itself, so that the blogger can extend the word count of their recipe, and have the chance to rank higher for it.
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Chocolate chip cookies, you’re not simply creating a post with a simple list of ingredients & instructions, but no pictures. No! People hate to read, so pictures are GREAT. Video is even better. A bulleted list of ingredients is never a bad thing either, and numbered instructions? Yeah, ya need that too. If you also include, prep time, cook time, oven temp, etc at the top –even better. And if you’re a real pro, you also know that neither your ingredients list nor your instructions say “perfect, gooey, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chip cookies” and that’s where the story & descriptions come in. You have to use that keyphrase SOMEwhere to have a chance in hell at ranking anywhere in Google for it. 😂
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I’m a laid back, laugh-happy, sarcasm-using, coffee-drinking, pet-loving, bibliophile. I’ve been designing since I found Publisher on my Dad’s computer as a kid in the 90’s! I also studied graphic design in college and I’ve been a designer in the corporate world since 2006. I took my freelance design business full time in 2020!🙌🏻
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I don’t really have a design‘style’, other than clean & well organized. Rather, my best skillset is listening to what my client needs, stepping into her shoes & giving her something that isn’t just pretty, but also makes her more confident in her business AND handles some of the workload via integations or processes that can be built into the site, simplified, streamlined & automated so she can have more free time & less stress.
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