Best Food Photo Sharing Websites for Food Bloggers
For any food blogger photo/recipe sharing websites are something like doors to the food photography/blogging world. We all want to get in to be seen by others. We want to show the world our food creations and hope that “the world” will like them and will visit our blogs! We all need traffic to thrive after all!
These sites are something like pretty thick catalogues containing recipes of food bloggers from all over the world! Within minutes you can discover new recipes as well as new food blogs that are out there.
In order to submit your food photos to these sites you need to sign up with most of them. Once you have created a free account you can start submitting your recipes. Each food photo sharing website has its own requirements for submitting. Some require you to upload link and the image, some ask for keywords, some don’t. The image size can also vary from site to site.
Are you wondering what sites are they? Do you wanna know the number of followers they have on social media? Are you interested in knowing a bit more about their submission process?
We’ve got it all covered!
We looked at 18 recipe/photo sharing websites and talked about:
- Popularity – I am sure we all know Foodgawker & Tastespotting and we all want to have our pictures submitted there. But there are other alternatives that are worth submitting too! Check their social media to see how many followers they have!
- Submission process – How long does it take to submit your picture and what do you need?
- Accepting period – So you have submitted your photo. Now what? Well, now you wait until the editors accept or decline it. It may take hours, days even months! Nothing is worse than waiting days, weeks for your pictures to be accepted (especially when it comes to seasonal recipes). We have included this quite important information under every single food photo/recipe sharing website. Note that there are sites where you don’t need to wait at all!
So here is the list of the best food photo sharing websites:
Foodgawker
This is probably the largest food photo sharing website. It had taken us a while before our pictures were accepted. What we found cool, they didn’t. An awkward angle was one of the first mistakes we made alongside with over exposed pictures or low light pictures. They accept photos really quickly – usually in 12-24 hours.
Social reach*: Facebook 134K, Pinterest 122K, Twitter 36K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 1 minute
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title, short description, tags
Yummly
This site is great as you don’t actually have to submit your content anywhere. Once you add your blog to their database, your new posts will automatically be uploaded on to their site. Oh and another cool thing: as a user you also have the option of searching meals by nutrition, price, allergy, ingredient, time, taste, … It’s pretty cool!
Social reach*: Facebook 289K, Pinterest 80K, Twitter 42K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 0 minute
What you need for submitting: RSS feed
Healthy Aperture
This recipe sharing website as you might have already guessed is all about healthy foods and the moderators are registered dietitians. If you like to cook healthy dishes, this might be a place for you – not only for submitting but also for browsing other recipes!
Social reach*: Facebook 8K, Pinterest 22K, Twitter 5K, Instagram 13K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 1 minute
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title, category, tags
Accepting your photos: 1-2 days
TasteSpotting
Tastespotting is similar looking as Foodgawker. But! While submitting your pictures takes only a minute, accepting them is not what it used to be! More and more often it takes several weeks (sometimes months) for them to accept your photos. I don’t know what the reason is but it’s pretty inconvenient! Let’s hope this will change back to normal soon.
Social reach*: Facebook 34K, Twitter 24K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 1 minute
What you need for submitting: image, post link, short description, category, tags
Accepting your photos: 2-3 months
Finding Vegan
This is a great place to find hundreds of vegan recipes in one place! Whether you are a vegan or not you but make vegan dishes, this is the place to submit them to!
Social reach*: Facebook 1M, Twitter 58K, Instagram 10K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 1 minute
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title tags
Accepting your photos: 1-3 days
Instructables
Are you familiar with Instructables? It is a website where users can upload their DIY projects preferably with step by step pictures. Another interesting (maybe a bit different) source of traffic! If you take step-by-step pictures of your dishes this is the place to submit them to! You don’t need to submit only step-by-step photos but it is more likely to get featured this way!
Social reach*: Facebook 800K, Pinterest 264K, Twitter 107K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 3 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, description, ingredients, directions
My Recipe Magic
What we like: Every week they feature one chef on their website! They also have a pretty impressive number of Facebook followers. It could bring you a lot of traffic when they pick your photo for sharing on social media.
Social reach*: Facebook 2M, Pinterest 52K, Twitter 2K, Instagram 54K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 2 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title, short description, ingredients, directions category, cooking time, cuisine
Accepting your photos: 12-24h
WholeYum
Another healthy recipe sharing site where you can submit your healthy recipes and read health related articles. It’s a bit slower when it comes to submitting though.
Social reach*: Facebook 39K, Pinterest 59K, Twitter 4K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 3 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title, short description, ingredients, directions, prep time, cook time, serving size, calories, course, dish type, tags.
Yum Goggle
It’s fairly easy to submit your recipes, but you need a few more things for submitting. Photos are usually accepted within a few days.
Social reach*: Facebook 3K, Pinterest 13K, Twitter 3K, Instagram 2K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 2 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, post link, short description, category, keywords, your website name, email
Accepting your photos: 24h
Foodrhythms
Foodrhythms is a pretty basic recipe sharing site. You can connect with other bloggers. You can add your videos and they will share them on their social media.
Social reach*: Facebook 170K, Pinterest 2K, Twitter 10K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 2 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, post link, post title, short description, course, dish type, tags
Bloglovin
What we like: RSS feed = You don’t need to submit your posts manually. It saves you the precious time.
Social reach*: Facebook 63K, Pinterest 860K, Twitter 71K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 0 minute
What you need for submitting: RSS feed
Tasty Kitchen
Tasty Kitchen has a pretty large number of followers on Pinterest. They feature their members and recipes on their site. It’s a bit slow when it comes to submitting recipes as the ingredients have to be input manually.
Social reach*: Pinterest 660K, Twitter 19K
How long it takes to submit the recipe: 4 minutes
What you need for submitting: image, post link, short description, category, ingredients, directions, prep time, cook time, servings, tags
Accepting your photos: 1-2 days
Our top 10 traffic from recipe/photo sharing sites (Jan-Aug 2016):
- Foodgawker
- Yummly
- Instructables
- LiveDan330
- My Recipe Magic
- Tastespotting
- Finding Vegan
- Tasteologie
- Healthy Aperture
- Yum Goggle
Guys, I am sure you have come across posts about recipe sharing sites but we tried to make it as helpful as possible and include information that could be helpful to those who are new to food blogging or those who are looking for more sites to submit their recipes to.
Also if you know any other recipe/photo sharing websites that should be on this list, add them in the comments below!
Happy blogging with Happy Foods Tube!
*Social reach – taken on August 2016
Its a great article you wrote. Thanks a ton. Keep up the good work on writing more blogger resources.
I am glad you liked it! I hope you found it helpful. Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for including Yum Goggle – glad we made the top 10 of your food site traffic-getters……….we are still not even 2 years old yet so we are small but mighty AND Huffington Post and a few other big media companies follow us on Instagram choosing photos here and there to feature while REALLY brings traffic. We are one of the few that Huff Post uses because they know we authenticate all our posts/photos first to verify that the blogger actually took the photo themselves……….something not all the food sites do.
Thanks for your submissions and we hope you will continue to contribute!
You are welcome! Authentication is quite important – nothing is worse than stolen pictures/posts! Great job!
My blog is turning one year this month and I’m trying to find new ways to increase traffic. Thank you so much for this great article!
Congrats to the one year blogiversary :)! Glad to hear you found this post helpful! All the best with blogging!
Good list, perfect for new bloggers to get a hold of things around here. Yummly features quite high in your traffic list, for me however it does not seem to help much. Now sure what I am doing wrong with Yummly. However you missed out FoodYub, another new site but for the moment it is driving my maximum traffic per post accepted, just as much as Foodgawker. BTW, Instructables does not seem to have a way to link the blog, correct me if I am wrong.
Great information. Fridgg is another one that’s easy to upload to and sends me traffic.
Hi Nicole! Thank you. Yes, you are right. I’ve started uploading to Fridgg recently so will see how it goes :). Thanks for your comment!