How to get your blog included in the Food Blog Search engine
Please note that the purpose of Food Blog Search is to be a tool for foodbloggers and scratch cooks searching for recipes. It is not meant to be a comprehensive search engine of all food blogs. For this reason there are strict guidelines that must be met in order to be considered for inclusion. The criteria are:
- Written in English
- Subject is food and cooking
- Is at least three months old, with at least 30 entries
- Provides a substantial number of recipes, most original or adapted and not just copied word for word from other sites
- Any recipes taken from other sources must be properly credited, and preferably rewritten in your own words.
- All recipes include accompanying stories or substantial headnotes (at least a paragraph)
- All recipes include attractive original photos or illustrations
- Follows classic scratch-cooking methods with whole food ingredients
- Presented in a blog format, including comments
- Is a current, active blog, with at least 2 entries a month
- Includes an "About" section with information about the blog author(s)
- Evidence that the blog supports the food blogging community, for example, ample links to other food blogs in entries, a blogroll with several food blogs mentioned, and/or display of the Food Blog Search widget or button on the blog.
ALL CRITERIA MUST BE MET TO BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION.
Is your food blog included in the search engine? You can check by doing a search for your blog's title or URL. If your blog shows up in the results, it's being searched.
If you have a food blog that isn't currently included in the search engine, and it meets all of the aforementioned criteria, we'd love to know about it. Send a note to us at admin AT foodblogsearch [dot} com and we'll get to it within a week or so. Note that if you have clearly not read the list of requirements before submitting a request for inclusion, it is likely that your request will be completely ignored.
We are not interested in adding blogs that appear to have been created purely to take advantage of Adsense, large commercial food company blogs, blogs too focused on self-promotion, blogs that violate the intellectual property rights of others, or blogs that participate in paid product reviews such as PayPerPost. To protect the trust between food bloggers and food blog readers, we reserve the right to exclude blogs which do not meet our selection criteria.