Zip Recipes Interview: How Nicolas and Layla built a food blog that gets 2 million views/month

 

I met Nicolas about a year ago. He emailed me enquiring about Zip Recipes.

Since then, I’ve learned a lot from him about how to improve Zip Recipes. I approached him with an idea to do an interview with me about how he and his wife, Layla, started their food blog.

As usual, he was very gracious and we ran with it. The result is below.

They’ve been able to do very well with their food blog and I recommend you listen and see what you can learn. One of the very first SEO tips he shares is so easy to implement. I had never thought about it!

 

F.A.Q.

If your license is activated, you should be able to update from the WordPress plugins dashboard. If this doesn’t work, there’s probably a configuration issue on your server. We’ve listed several of the most common causes.

Sure! Just go to your account, then click “view licenses”, then “view upgrade”. There you have options to pay the additional amount.

The download link you received in the initial e-mail is valid for 24 hours. After the link has expired you can log in to your ZIP Recipes account to download the plugin again. When logged in to your account you will see a section “your purchases”. 

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If you don’t remember the email you used for the purchase, or did the purchase before the automatic account creation was activated, please contact us and we’ll set it up for you. 

You can create a new password via the following link: https://ziprecipes.net/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

When getting a ‘this email is not authorized to renew license’ error, try clearing cookies from your browser. That will likely solve the issue.

If you click the download link after you have purchased a plugin, you should download a zipped file which you can upload to WordPress. If this is not the case, you are probably using Safari. This is easy to fix. Go to:

Safari > Preferences > General > Open “safe” files after downloading: uncheck.