6 steps to start your nutrition blog

If you want to reach potential clients, build your brand, and market your services, having a nutrition blog is a good place to start. Here are the 6 steps you need to know about starting a blog to help boost your nutrition business.

Whether you’re new to the online space or are a seasoned professional, having a nutrition blog is a great way to reach more people and provide expertise on certain topics that are relevant to your business.

Moreover, you as a dietitian can use this space to provide science-based information to dispel any misconceptions surrounding nutrition, health, and wellness. However, it can be intimidating to start your own blog, which is why we’re here to help. Here’s how to start a nutrition blog to boost your business, reach more clients, and create engaging content. 

Kick off your nutrition blog by following these steps!

Step #1: Have a game plan

Before you get started, you should have a roadmap to make this process easier. Here are some things to consider before you create content.

Identify your target audience

Clients want to feel connected and comfortable with you, and since they want to receive services from a business that they resonate with, it’s important to make sure that your content aligns with the market needs. You can do this by taking some time to think about who you want to work with and how you can help them. 

For instance, determine if your audience prefers nutrition posts or healthy recipes, or both. Depending on what the answer is, you can start to create content that will resonate with them and drive more traffic. 

Consider the overall look

Your blog should have a simple design that doesn’t distract from the content you create. 

Determine a posting schedule

To have a successful blog, you should be consistent about posting. You can do this by creating a calendar and sticking to an upload schedule.

Utilize social media

Once your content is live, determine how you want to promote your blog. While SEO will do a lot of the heavy lifting, you should also post your content on your social media channels. Images, videos, and even polls also go a long way in attracting people to read your posts. 

Consider lead magnets

Since you want to attract more people for your business, consider how you want to encourage them to use your services. Email marketing, free downloads, and special discounts make a difference when it comes to getting more clients, so figure out how you want to incorporate that into your blog posts. 

Step #2: Generate ideas for your nutrition blog

Creating nutrition content is much more than a creative process. Since the main goal of your blog is to drive traffic to your business (and ultimately have them turn into paying clients), you need to make sure that the content you’re creating makes sense for the goals you have. 

While you can write on almost anything you want, you should be strategic about it and create content based on how many people are searching for certain topics. You can utilize tools like ubersuggest.io, which helps you to quickly check how the online searches have been in the past months, based on keywords. Other platforms you can use to help find topics to write about include SEMrush, Keyword planner, Ahrefs, and Google trends. 

Tip: The best health blogs use SEO tools to help them find the right keywords to use in their articles.

For example, if you were to search for “immunity”, you would see that the search traffic has greatly increased over the past few months, so to monopolize this information, you can write an article about nutrients to enhance immunity and tailor this towards your business, target audience, and potential clients. While this process may seem tedious, it’s one of the most important steps when it comes to content creation. 

Once you have looked at analytics, determined keywords, and defined your target audience, you can start organizing your thoughts and creating outlines for what to write about.

Tip: SEO is one of the most important tools a nutrition professional can use. Learn more about how to work in SEO to further leverage your business. 

Nutrition topics to write about

If you’re feeling a case of writer’s block, here are some nutrition topics to write about. 

• How to eat sustainably
• Why is dehydration dangerous?
• Health benefits of carbohydrates
• Link between nutrition and hypertension
• Holistic nutrition
• Meal plans for different needs (athletes, pregnant women, older adults, etc.)
• Plant-based and vegan recipes
• Weight loss
• Mental health
• Healthy eating
• How to live a healthy lifestyle
• Top list of gluten free foods 
• Health and fitness tips
• How to develop healthy eating habits
  
  

Step #3: Do your research

Once you’ve created an outline, it’s time to go a bit deeper. As a nutrition professional, you want your blog to not only reach a large audience, but to also be scientifically sound. 

To do that, turn to reputable sources (like government websites, online journals, food boards, food magazines, nutrition textbooks, and other dietitians) to add even more credibility to your work and further enhance the fact that you are an expert in the field. 

Step #4: Add compelling titles and high-quality pictures

Now that you’ve created a well-written (and researched) piece of content, you need to grab people’s attention. You can do that by choosing high-quality images and writing a catchy title. Here are some ways that the best nutrition blogs use titles and images to draw people in.

• Title. The title of your nutrition blog is crucial. To help increase SEO potential and drive even more traffic to your site, you should use keywords in the beginning of your title, and have it be around 60 characters. 
• Images. Use creative personal or stock photos to add a level of design to your content. These images should be clear, high-quality, and uncluttered (without a lot of text in the background). You can get beautiful images on sites like Pexels, Canva, or Unsplash.
  
  

Step #5: Determine what platform you want to use

While popular online platforms are available for blogging purposes, they can be complicated and expensive to use, as you often need to pay a service fee, hire a web developer/designer, and overcome a learning curve. 

That’s why Nutrium has created a blog feature built into their packages to make this easier for you. From built-in SEO to recipe plugins, you can ditch the developers, save money, and get started in just a few minutes! Learn more about how this feature works here. 

Step #6: Final checks before posting

Before hitting publish, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Final edits. Read your articles once more before publishing to avoid any grammar mistakes and ensure that all links work. If you create recipes, be sure to try them out before posting, as this will help confirm consistency, serving size, and overall taste.
• Preview. Take a peek at your post in private mode so you can determine if you need to adjust the size of images, length of paragraphs, or fix a hyperlink.

Create your nutrition blog articles with Nutrium

Setting up a blog is not easy, which is why it’s important to choose a platform that makes your life easier. 

With Nutrium, you can create a blog that is SEO friendly, easy to use, and free of charge. Even if you already have a blog on a different server, you can still utilize this tool because it’s an excellent opportunity to continue adding more content and add value to your business. 

Using Nutrium’s blog also makes it easier to rank on the first page of Google, which can increase the chances of attracting new clients to your business. Learn how to create blog posts with Nutrium in this step-by-step guide. 

Summary

A nutrition blog is a great place to start if you want to reach potential clients, build your brand, and market your services. While it may seem intimidating, you can ease any fears by doing your research, having a game plan, and considering SEO potential. You can also create your blogs on Nutrium, as this will continue to increase the chances of ranking on the first page of Google and attracting new clients to your business.

We are always working toward bringing you the best nutrition content, so we welcome any suggestions or comments you might have! Feel free to write to us at info@nutrium.com.

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