Welcome to the Foodie Blogroll FAQ

Why Should I join The Foodie Blogroll? What's in it for me?

The Foodie Blogroll is the first of its kind and is one of the fastest growing online communities for foodbloggers. With close to 2000 members spanning the globe in less than a year, there is a reason for its popularity. It is the first blogroll created just for foodies like you by a foodie like you. When I started my food blog, I went looking for a blogroll for food and cooking related websites and there were none to be found. So I decided to create my own! This is all about building the best community online for foodbloggers! Imagine what being exposed on over 1500 blogs about food would do for your traffic.

Benefits:

• Forum: A great benefit for joining is a forum for members (and other foodies alike) to hang out with each other and get to know each other and talk about our favorite subject – FOOD, here a the Leftover Queen/Foodie Blogroll Forum.
  
  
• Contests : The Royal Foodie Joust (and more to come)
  
  
• Finest Foodies Friday : Every Friday I feature the best blogs from the Foodie Blogroll! If you are not a member, you can't be featured.
  
  
• Exposure: Being exposed on over 2000 blogs about food.
  
  
• Contests and Giveaways! (coming soon)

What is The Foodie Blogroll Widget?

The Foodie Blogroll Widget is a small badge with several features that help your site be exposed and receive more traffic, including: links to the "10 Most Recent" blogs added to the directory, the randomly generated "10 Random Blogs of the Day" and coming soon the "Random Blog of the Day" and the "Random Blog of the Month".

Who manages The Foodie Blogroll and the Foodie Blogroll Forum?

I, Jenn, The Leftover Queen am humbly at your service for this one! This is truly a labor of love. Roberto, my husband and I are working together and have found ways to make this process easier as the blogroll has grown, but it is still a cottage industry and much of the process is done manually, for now. We are working on many ways to automate a lot of it, but it takes time to build a software from nothing. So please be patient with us. I usually spend several hours a day managing this great foodie community! But if I am not at my computer, everything is on hold until I can get back to it.

My request to join The Foodie Blogroll was rejected however, my blog fits all the requirements. Why didn't you send me the Foodie Blogroll Widget?

Most Foodie Blogroll Request Rejections happen because information you typed into the registration form was incorrect. Most often URLS are misspelled and therefore cannot be verified as a food blog. If you feel you fit all the requirements to join and you received this rejection in error, please go back to the registration form and fill out another request.

Other times requests are rejected because you have less than 5 posts (that are food related) or less than 80% of your blog is food related. If this is the problem, feel free to re-register once you have fulfilled these requirements.

I have a Wordpress.com / Vox blog and they do not alllow SCRIPT code. What do I do?

Wordpress.com (not Wordpress platforms) and vox blog templates do not allow their user to use SCRIPT elements in their blogs.

We didn't want you to miss out on any of the new benefits due to the limitations imposed by Wordpress.com, so we created a new Foodie Blogroll Widget just for our members using Wordpress.com.

Placing this new widget on your site, will allow you to enjoy all the benefits of the new features including the contests and rewards!

Our members hosted on wordpress.com normally receive the wordpress specific widget code when they are accepted in the Foodie Blogroll.

If you have not received the wordpress.com Widget code for your blog yet but you know your BlogID, please use the code below:

Remember to replace the *** with your BlogID or it will not track your stats and your blog will not be eligible for the contests and rewards.

I have a Blogger/ Blogspot blog, how do I add the Foodie Blogroll Widget to my blog?

If you have a Blogger/Blogspot Blog and do not know how to add the Foodie BlogRoll Widget code to your blog sidebar:
1) go to your dashboard. 2) Choose the "add a page element" option 3) (do not use the "add a widget option"), click the "HTML/Javascript" option and then copy and paste the entire code into the template.

I have iWeb. How can I install the Foodie Blogroll Widget ?

If you have iWeb, please click this link to find out how to install the code.

I don't like the way the Foodie Blogroll Widget looks on my blog from a design standpoint. Can I change the look?

You can now choose a different style (size and color) for the Foodie Blogroll Widget for a better fit to your blog design by visiting the Customize Widget tool page (see link in the Approval email you received when your blog was approved).

I have changed domain names, URL address or blog title (or any other changes), how can I get that changed on the blogroll?

We are soon going to enable our members to log in and manage their blog details. Please bear with us a little bit longer.

I have seen different Foodie Blogroll Widget around the Blogosphere. Do I have the correct Widget? How do I get the newest version?

There are 2 versions of the code out there. For those of you who have joined The Foodie Blogroll before March 2008, you have an older version. That was our quick fix back in early April. This is fine for the moment. Everyone will be getting the new code eventually. Once the new site is up and running with all the new features, you will be getting an email from us. This will explain how you can log in to your new account on FoodieBlogroll.com and retrieve the new code to implement on your site. It will also allow you to change account information and your stats. If you want the code right away, please see the above question. But I ask that you send me an email first, letting me know you are going to request a new code, so that I can be on the lookout for you.
queen[at]leftoverqueen[dot]com

I have not seen my blog featured in the 5 Most Recent blogs section of the Foodie Blogroll Widget. When can I expect to see it there?

Your blog will be featured in the 10 Newest Blogs section in the blogroll widget on the day you receive your approval email saying that you have been added to the blogroll. I generally get many more than 10 requests to fulfill per day - for approvals. I try to make sure that all the new blogs have at least a half a day or so in the 10 newest blogs section. ..but that is the best I can do without getting backed up on approvals. So new blogs are always featured there the day you get the email from me that your blog has been approved, but I cannot guarantee how long your blog will be featured in that section, as it is imperative that I keep approvals going at a moderate rate so that new members do not have to wait for weeks to get approved once they have put the code up.

My question is not here. Where do I get an answer?

If you can't find your answer here, please contact us at support@foodieblogroll.com. Please also let us know if there should be any other questions/issues you'd like to see answered here. Send us suggestions to support@foodieblogroll.com.

We do also have a FOODIE BLOGROLL FORUM :) If you have a question that this FAQ is not answering, it is likely that one of the kind members of the foodie blog roll community has had similar issues and posted about it on the forum. Please post your question on this section of the forum and I am confident you will get help from a fellow member. Foodies are some of the nicest people ever!

What are the requirements for joining?

• Display the Foodie Blogroll widget on your blog's sidebar - The widget must be located on your blog's sidebar.
  
  
• Your site must be a blog - this means that it must be in blog format, meaning that there are posts that follow a chronological order by date. It cannot be a static HTML website. If your site is of a purely commercial nature (like you are selling food related products or publications), but you still want to be a part of the blogroll, you check out our advertisers information page.
  
  
• Your blog must have at least 5 entries - and these entries must be specifically food related - recipes, reviews, how-to s, food related product reviews and the like.
  
  
• Your blog must be at least one month old. If your blog is older than one month, then it must have been regularly updated in the past month.
  
  
• Your overall blog content must be 50% food related.