Widgets and Badges
By: Barnaby Dorfman
Published: April 19, 2009

We released a new set of Linkback Widgets and Foodista Badges. Both are designed for food bloggers and should work with just about any design and color scheme.
Linkback Widgets
Want more traffic and better rankings on Google? Try these widgets, which are bits of code that you can get on the "Widget" tab of any Foodista recipe, tool, technique, or food page. When you embed them in a blog post, our software sees that and creates a link from our page to your blog post. If you are logged into Foodista when you get the code, it also automatically creates a link from your Foodista profile to your blog post.
So if you write about Baba Ghanouj you might embed a linkback widget to the Foodista eggplant page: http://www.foodista.com/food/BXN8GL8V/eggplant/widgets

We now have 3 different sizes. Check out these examples:
Big

Medium

If you want to minimize the impact on your post and still get a linkback, we have a tiny version too:
Small
(still links to Ice Cream Sandwiches)

Foodista Badges
If you love Foodista as much as we do ;-), and simply want to link to us, we have a set of simple badge graphics you can place in one of the side columns of your blog. Note: these will not create automated links from Foodista back to your blog like the widgets do.

 

Click here for all badge sizes and colors.

Comments:
jim
April 19, 2009

this is one of the most tedious things I have ever encountered.  Kim Komando mentioned this site as being handy to folks who like to cook.  I have just emailed her website and told them this:  "you must be nuts!  What a bunch of self-serving crap.  A total waste of time.  Who gives a hoot about widgets and blogs?  Do you know how to cook or what?  I dont think so."  take it for what it's worth.  and dont give up your day job.
Carla

What a good idea! You guys at Foodista have been really busy. Congratulations. No wonder you are getting a lot of traffic! Good for you.
Barnaby Dorfman

Wow Jim! Love the passion and sorry our site doesn't do it for you....yet! A few thoughts, first..I think most of us here at Foodista are good cooks, but that's not really the point. We're building a community of people who share their cooking knowledge. Our goal is to create the most comprehensive cooking encyclopedia the world has ever seen. That said, we're just getting started and it's very early. Self-serving? Sure, we're a business, but as that relates to Widgets, ours do provide benefits to Bloggers, they create a 2-way link, which helps us AND the people who use them. As for who cares? Well, the thousands of people who blog about food everyday do...and so far they are giving us good feedback. But, again it's early and we have a lot of work to do.
Also, I have a feeling you may have jumped into our Blog from the homepage and not had an opportunity to spend time in the Encyclopedia, that's where most of the content lives. We know we need to do a better job of differentiating the two.
Finally, too late on the day job front: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20090505-906688.html?mod=wsjcrmain
facebok

Tell me, your presence in the social network facebok?
domonique

I don't see the code for the badges.  can you send them to me?
domonique

There isn't any code for your badges.  can you please send it to me?