Supporting Food Bloggers

CREATING CONNECTION

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As food bloggers, we know it’s difficult to find your tribe.

You spend countless hours creating a delicious recipe, meticulously take hundreds of photos and craft a beautifully written post. Yet you’re still on page 3 on google and your only committed reader is your grandma. #truestory

Forage Feed was designed to help bridge the gap and to cultivate a community where readers organically discover and fall in love with your content.

But, we aren’t just another recipe website.

Designed for food bloggers and home cooks alike, we cultivate and support a community of conscious eaters.

how it works

What is a recipe submission website?

Recipe Submission websites are an excellent way for bloggers to attract their niche audience and generate traffic to their food blogs.

But how do they work? As a food blogger, you submit an image from your recipe and the original post’s URL. If the submission is approved, the website will feature your work. Then, when a visitor clicks on your recipe, it will direct the user to your original blog post (similar to Pinterest). It’s an excellent way for users to discover your content, and it’s an effective strategy when you first start your food blog.

The challenge is that many recipe submission websites are different. Some websites don’t accept new users. Some charge an annual fee. Others will only accept submissions with professional-quality images. Some even require you to share the full recipe.

Forage Feed is designed differently –

NO FEES

We want people to be empowered to make informed food choices that promote health and wellbeing, with no ongoing fees or submission restrictions.

100% plant-based

We aspire to be the leading community-focused website to feature thoughtfully prepared plant-based recipes featuring different dietary preferences.

COMMUNITY FOCUS

We seek connection with those who love food as much as we do and allow users to interact, leave comments and share their creations.

CREATIVE INCLUSIVITY

We are a community that values inclusivity and accepts submissions from home cooks and food bloggers, irrespective of their photography skills.

VALUE CONTRIBUTION

We value the contribution from this community and support food bloggers by improving their Google Rankings with backlinks (explained more below).

added FEATURES

We create the means to make plant-based recipes easy to create, discover and share by allowing users to create their own meal plans & collections.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE

EASY TO CREATE, DISCOVER & SHARE

As a recipe creator you already do so much work, which is why we aim to make sharing your thoughtfully-prepared recipes easy. To contribute, simply follow the below steps –

1. Register your account using the Sign Up Form.

2. Once you’ve activated your account, select the button on the top-right of the page labelled “Submit Recipe”

3. Complete the Submission Form and remember to include the URL to your original recipe blog post.

4. Each submission is quality-checked to ensure it’s a genuine recipe website and not a link to an unrelated or “unsavoury” website. It may take a couple of days before your post is published publicly. Thank you for being patient and bearing with us.

5. You will receive an email confirming when your recipe submission is published. You can check your published submissions and comments.

6. Explore other recipes and create your own meal plan and recipe collections by bookmarking your favourites!

HOW WE SUPPORT YOU

OPTIMISE YOUR FOOD BLOG SEO

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimisation”. In essence, SEO is how Google ranks and displays your website. The higher your website ranking, the higher likelihood that your content will be displayed in the google search results. As 75% of the internet’s traffic is generated by Google, this should be a key focus for emerging food bloggers.

SEO is complex and is influenced by a number of factors. A significant factor is the number of external websites that links to your website. This tells Google that your website is influential and well regarded by the community. Unfortunately, not all links are created equal.

“Unfollow Links” tell search engines not to follow the outbound link, which communicates to Google that the website does not endorse or support the connection. “Follow Links”, on the other hand, tell Google that your website is well-endorsed. Collecting Follow Links is one strategy used to increase Google’s ranking.

We reward active members known for contributing great content by featuring them in a monthly ‘Blogger in the Spotlight’ guest post. The post will feature your profile, include an interview promoting your work and will contain Follow Links to drive traffic to your website and improve your website’s SEO.

To be considered an active member you will need to have –