Let’s talk about something different than a recipe today. Food Blogging. What is Food Blogging?
I still have difficulty trying to make people understand what I do as a full time job. If you have been following my blog for sometime now, you might know that I have a masters degree in Chemical Engineering and after working for few years in the corporate world, I decided it wasn’t the right place for me. I wanted to do something that I was passionate about and after devoting almost 2 years, I was FINALLY able to find the right thing for me.
Today I won’t call myself a pro as I am still learning the ins and outs of this profession. Food blogging can get intimidating at times as there is so much scope in this field that sometimes you might end up wanting to do a lot (that happens with me quite a bit and that leaves me more than often depressed at the end of the day when I see not much success towards reaching my goals).
So as we all know, one of the best or the important thing to be successful in this field is NETWORKING. You want your blog to be seen and read by as many people as possible and for this if you are a food blogger and you take your food photos by yourself, this is one of the best way to get some exposure.
Food photography is another vast area and it really helps if you can take great magazine like photos. There are lot of sites out there which allow you to submit your food photos attached to a particular recipe you posted on your blog and through those sites, if you are lucky enough to get your photo published there, you can get a lot of traffic to your food blog.
Let me warn you though. There are countless food photos submission sites out there and it gets kind of impossible to submit to all of these as it ends up taking a lot of time. So after doing it for some time now, I have found the ones that work the best for me. So here I have compiled them in a list. You are more than welcome to add your findings or your favorite sites to share your food photos in the comments below.
Let’s get to work!
Best Sites To Submit Food Photos To Drive Traffic To Your Food Blog:
1. Food Gawker
3. Foodista
4. Tasty Ktchen
8. Tasteologie
Let me tell you that these are the sites I use often to submit my food photos but there are tons of other sites out there too.These are the sites I find worth spending time as it can easily take around 5-10 minutes for submitting to each site.
Hope you find this article helpful and I would seriously love to know what sites or places you submit your food photos to drive traffic to your blog.
IshitaUnblogged says
January 7, 2015 at 11:46 AMThanks for the list… while I am aware that all these photo submission sites are great to bring in traffic… they are also very hard to crack – that is, get accepted!
Any suggestion to crack that?
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:12 PMI do agree with you on these sites being really hard to crack too. I have seen that the best way is usually having amazing bright pictures and even i struggle with it all the time.
Kelly - Life Made Sweeter says
January 7, 2015 at 1:23 PMI try to submit to FG and TS and some of those sites too whenever I can but don’t always remember or have the time. Thanks for the putting them all together in one great easy to find list, Ami 🙂
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:08 PMI am glad you found this helpful Kelly!
Manali @ CookWithManali says
January 7, 2015 at 5:30 PMI only submit to Foodgawker, Tastespotting and Finding Vegan. Few months back I tried submitting to Tasteologie…I am not sure but there’s no way to check if your post has been accepted or rejected on the site? Do you know how to check that Ami? On FG and TS you can see if your post is pending or not..no clue how to see that on Tastelogie? I was never able to see any of my posts there..and didn’t know how to check also..so I just gave up!
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:07 PMI agree with you Manali. On tasteologie you can’t tell if your post is accepted or if not accepted whats the reason behind it. But if you type your username in the search box, it usually shows you all the results posted by that particular user. I find that little bit helpful as sometimes i do know which ones got posted!!
Linda @ Veganosity says
January 8, 2015 at 12:27 AMBravo to you for following your passion! I submit my photos to most of the ones on your list. You’re right, it takes a lot of time, but I think it’s totally worth it.
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:02 PMYes it does get annoying sometimes but well work is not all fun right?!!
Laura @ Raise Your Garden says
January 8, 2015 at 8:16 AMI’m not even a food blogger and thought this post was so interesting!
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:02 PMHaha thanks girl!
mira says
January 8, 2015 at 8:03 PMThanks for sharing Ami! I try to submit to most of these, but not every recipe! It could easily take a lot of time, but the traffic they send is great most of the time 🙂
naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 10:00 PMTotally agreed Mira and yes it does take so much time that sometimes I get tired of it too!
Jinal says
January 15, 2015 at 10:10 PMNicely put together. I agree with everything you have noted. I too am coming from a different profession and have started blogging mainly about food and related topics so far as hobby and can see spending much of my time reaching out and learning about social media. I find f52gram high potential. Let me know if you have any experience with that. However let me tell you this, recipe submitting is not that breeze here as well. Keep up the good work. Glad our path crossed.
naivecookcooks says
January 17, 2015 at 10:32 AMJinal I feel the same too!! It takes a lot of time and patience to submit recipes to tons of sites and then wait to see if they accept or not. Add regarding f52grams, you mean the hashtag for using on Instagram or their food52 site in general??
jinal says
August 6, 2015 at 5:09 AMYes meant food52 website.
Sumit Agrawal says
March 22, 2015 at 4:23 AMHi Ami,
Thanks for your information. It is very useful.
Warmly
Sumit
naivecookcooks says
March 25, 2015 at 4:33 PMGlad it helped you!
Yan @WeAreGoingVegan says
May 13, 2015 at 7:21 AMThank you, Ami. We just started our blog and this would be very helpful.
How hard is it to get featured on Finding Vegan?
naivecookcooks says
May 14, 2015 at 12:10 PMActually I feel it’s not that hard if your recipe meets all the criteria of being vegan and pictures are bright and clear.
Fresh Roasted Coffee says
February 12, 2016 at 11:04 PMIts really nice information. I get help here.
Sanja says
March 26, 2016 at 11:33 AMGreat list. You can also post your recipes on this site:
CookTroop.com
Sanja says
March 26, 2016 at 11:54 AMGreat list!
You can also post recipes on this site:
http://www.cooktroop.com
Kay says
May 12, 2016 at 12:15 PMHello
Thank you for those websites. Will really be helpful for a new food blogger like me.
My website is spicecrackle.com
Tellmeprice.com says
September 15, 2016 at 12:21 PMThanks for sharing I agree too.
Travelling Foodie says
March 5, 2017 at 4:31 PMDo you have some sites that don’t require a recipe? My food blog is more focused on restaurants.
Riya says
March 15, 2017 at 1:11 AMThank u so much for above information. I have just joined a few sites, you listed above.
Spain on a Fork says
May 29, 2017 at 7:02 AMThis is amazing, thank you so much for providing this list and all your great advice. Truly helpful for starters.
Loganayaki Thamilselvan says
August 4, 2017 at 9:51 AMThanks for sharing useful information. this will help a lot for blogger to get more trafic
Carolyn says
August 9, 2017 at 7:29 AMThank you for the list. Really hard to crack as somebody said earlier.
Markas says
September 11, 2017 at 5:02 AMThis is so great. I found some new ways to get free traffic. Thank you very much!
Helen Lovely Flavor says
October 6, 2018 at 4:08 AMThank you so much for sharing such a valuable information, I was looking for a long time. Thank you.
Shreya Verma says
April 11, 2019 at 3:40 AMI was also looking for long time,
Thanks for sharing.
sandhya says
March 31, 2019 at 3:45 AMThanks for sharing such a valuable information I was looking for.
Shreya Verma says
April 11, 2019 at 3:37 AMThanks for sharing such useful information, This is really helpful for foodie people.
S K Yadav says
February 10, 2020 at 11:04 PMExcellent post for new food blogger. thanks to sharing information.
Cocoa extracts says
February 13, 2020 at 12:01 AMThanks for this list to submit photos.This is very useful for the beginners to get more traffic to their site.Keep posting.
abdul wahad says
May 7, 2021 at 5:20 AMi need more websites for food images submission
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