Do you submit your blog recipes to food sharing sites? These recipe aggregator sites help recipe creators by amplifying their content to new audiences and driving traffic back to their blogs.
As a recipe creator, you can submit your recipes to these food sharing sites, and then these sites will display and feature those recipes. These food sharing sites are all a little different, but submitting your content to them can be part of an effective traffic-building strategy, especially when you’re just starting out.
Let’s dive into some of our favorite food sharing sites!
Foodgawker
When you think of food sharing sites, Foodgawker probably first comes to mind. It’s one of many “gawker” websites (Stylegawker, Weddinggawker, and Craftgawker are other post aggregate sites!), but Foodgawker is where you’ll want to submit your recipes.
Foodgawker needs to accept your recipe before they actually post it, and they review each photo to make sure that the food looks appealing, that the white balance looks natural, and that the composition is tempting. You can read more about Foodgawker’s criteria and submission guidelines here.
We like Foodgawker because content creators submit links to their recipes, rather than the full recipes themselves. This means that if a Foodgawker user wants your recipe, they’ll need to go to your site to get it.
Pro Tip: When you submit your recipes to Foodgawker, make sure you include an enticing description to help encourage clicks through to your site! Your description will be shown directly under your photo on Foodgawker’s feed.
Yummly
Yummly is a unique food sharing site-meets-personalized recipe aggregator. Users can save recipes, plan meals, and more all on the site, so it’s essentially a recipe collection app for readers.
You can add your recipes to Yummly by adding a Yum button to your site (more details here), so if your readers are already using Yummly, it could be a really great way to get your content on the platform.
Trivet Recipes
Last but not least, we wanted to mention Trivet Recipes! And Trivet Recipes is near and dear to our heart because it was actually founded by one of our FBP members. (How cool is that?)
After signing up for Trivet Recipes, submitting your recipes is super simple, and users can filter recipes by category or even search to find exactly what they’re looking for.
An important note…
All food sharing sites have different sizing and editing recommendations that you should consider before you submit your recipes to each site.
Luckily, we have a course on Food Blogger Pro all about food sharing sites! It covers best practices to increase your chances of getting your photos accepted to food sharing sites, caption tips, and tagging guidelines.
Want to get access to our full Food Sharing Sites course?Question: Do you have a favorite food sharing site? Let us know in the comments!
That’s my recipe featured in the photo of the Healthy Kitchen site!!
LOL! What a coincidence. 😊 It looks so yummy!
Thanks for this 😘
So glad you enjoyed, Sarah!
How do I link my blog to a Tasty Kitchen Recipe Submission? The form only asks for my name, email address, recipe, and photo. How will viewers know it’s from my website or be able to click to it?
Hey, Sylvia! When you’re submitting a recipe, there’s an area for a “Related Link” — that’s where you’d put the link back to your blog.
Wonderful artice! Thank you.
I’m however wondering how do you register for submitting photos with Healthy apperture?
When you click on Submit button there’s only login page, not create new account for example. If you know, that would be wonderful 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Hey, Ana!
It looks like membership to Healthy Aperture actually costs $7.99/year now. https://healthyaperture.com/faq There’s a link on that page you can use if you wish to join!
I could use some help. I’ve been submitting my recipes to the aggregators you recommend and I know that several of the recipes are now on their websites, but when I use my backlink checker tool, none of these submissions are showing up as backlinks. I do see traffic coming from them in Google though. Am I doing something wrong?
Hi Kate,
What backlink checker tool are you using? I’d be interested to look into this!
Also, when you go into Google Analytics, are the websites showing up under Acquisition –> Referrals?
Thank you..🙂
Thanks for reading, Priyanka! I hope you enjoyed it 🙂
I use Reciprocal Recipes. https://reciprocalrecipes.com.au
Thanks for sharing, Scott! I haven’t heard of Reciprocal Recipes before, but it looks like an awesome site to check out.
thanks for sharing this valuable article! can I submit my blog articles here, so I have just started my blog for my restaurant business. your feedback and suggestions are most welcome
We definitely recommend submitting your blog posts to these food sharing sites, Omaer! It will help you build traffic as you’re just starting out. 😊
Hi, Thanks so much for the compilation, I’m a novice cook and was just looking for sites like this!
We’re so glad you enjoyed the article, Joyce! Definitely let us know if there are any other topics you’d like us to cover. 😊
Hi. You can also use Foodsom to share your recipes. It’s quite a new one, similar to Pinterest and focused on food only.
Awesome — thanks for letting us know! That looks like another great option for food bloggers.
Very informative post. Thanks for sharing.
So glad you enjoyed the post, Rahul!
This is so helpful! Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed the post, Megan! 😊
I am one of the co-founders of a food sharing site called Trivet Recipes. One thing that makes us different is that there is no submission-and-waiting process. Once you sign up for a free account, you can start posting your material right away!
So cool to learn more about Trivet Recipes, Katherine! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this article. I’ve been trying to learn more about back linking for food bloggers and this post is very helpful and informative.
We’re glad you enjoyed the post, Justyna!
Thank you for this list, we just started our blog 🙂
Congrats on launching your blog — so exciting! 🎉
Do you happen to know if Tasty Kitchen has an approval process that takes some time? I ask because I signed up and took quite a long time submitting a few recipes (it takes a while to input all the ingredients! Phew!) and now there’s no sign of them anywhere! Any thoughts? Am I missing something? They don’t seem to have a place to go for support or I would ask them directly. TIA!
Good question, Joni! I’m not 100% sure what might be going on. Could you try emailing them at [email protected] to see if they can help you out?
I hope you are able to get this sorted out soon!
I’m a brand new food blogger, this article was immensely helpful!! I’ve been blogging about pets for years but I had no idea that there were so many different communities for food bloggers – life is getting so much tastier.
We’re so glad you enjoyed the article, Lindsay! 😊
Thank for the awesome list. I started my food blog 2 months ago. I think this list will help me so much.
Thank you again, Alexa.
We’re so glad you found it helpful, Nancy! And congrats on launching your blog 🎉
Wonderful artice! Thank you.
I’m however wondering how do you register for submitting photos with Healthy apperture?
When you click on Submit button there’s only login page, not create new account for example. If you know, that would be wonderful 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Hi, Nelson! We’re so glad you enjoyed the article. 🙂
I did a bit of digging, and it looks like the Healthy Aperture site might not be active anymore. Are you able to access the link on your end?
https://healthyaperture.com/
If that is the case, we’ll make sure to update the blog post accordingly!
Coincidentally, one of my pictures appears on the Foodgawker image. 😀
Oh how cool! Is your recipe the crispy fried plantains? Those look so delicious. 😍
Thank you for your tips on submitting recipes, we’ve so far have 6 vegan recipes accepted on Foodgawker 🙂
That’s incredible, Dawn! We’re so glad to hear you enjoyed the post. 🙂
Hi there! Just wanted to let you know this article is a bit out of date. Finding Vegan hasn’t worked for over a year now!
Thanks so much for the heads up here, Elizabeth! We’ll go ahead and remove them from the list. 🙂
Wonderful artice! Thank you.
Thanks so much for reading! We’re glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
thank you for the such a wonderful blog by sharing unique food sharing site-meets-personalized recipe aggregator and experience more tasty food by this sharing we will learn to make new food. i request you to please continue more.
Thanks for reading, Jayant! We’re glad you enjoyed the post. 😊
This is really great use for me. Thank you 🙂
We’re glad you enjoyed the post, Akshay! 🙂
Thank you so much for the article.
We’re really glad you enjoyed it, Deeksha! 😊
Thank you for the mentioned Food Sharing Sites, I was looking quite a while for something like this.
Thanks for reading, Danny! We’re so glad to hear you found the post useful. 😊
Pinterest is also a great platform to share food related content.
Totally agree, Jen — Pinterest is a fantastic place to share your recipes!
We have launched new recipes every week on our website but want to share our recipes on third party websites. I googled some websites then I found this blog. This is a great valuable post for me and I got listed my recipes in Trivet.
Thanks for sharing this blog. Extremly Helpful
That’s awesome — so glad to hear you already got some of your recipes shared on Trivet Recipes! Thanks so much for reading 😊
Thanks for the information. Very helpful
Thanks for reading, Katelyn! We’re so glad you enjoyed the article. 😊
Thanks for sharing, very useful info.
Thanks for reading, Shu-Chun! We’re so glad you enjoyed the article. 😊
I am really impressed that you put together good and useful information on favorite food-sharing sites for free that demand our attention. Thanks, Keep sharing.
Thanks for reading, Peter! We’re so glad you enjoyed the article. 🙂