First of all, if you’re reading this, thank you for being here. I’m Paul and I first started RecipeFlow website/blog in 2014.
I started RecipeFlow with a thought in my mind. There were so many recipes posted on YouTube but poorly organized. So I tried to categorize many of those recipes, sort everything out.
At first things seemed to be easy, me and my wife created on paper all the possible categories and then the subcategories, searching YouTube and creating everything on the website.
We created more than 250 food categories and subcategories, then started to embed YouTube videos on the website pages. We posted approximately 13.000 videos, and Google liked this type of content. Sometimes we posted 500 videos per day.
What we didn’t know at that moment, is that we would get in trouble with a lot of things on the website, along with 15k videos some issues appeared. The shared hosting accounts weren’t enough anymore and we had to pay more than 150$ per month for a dedicated server.
There were more than 100.000 images, 10.000 tags and 60k+ comments, etc. But we didn’t earn much, we kept changing servers and hosting providers in search for a better option for our website, then each year Google stopped giving us enough traffic to earn something. It seems even WordPress wasn’t prepared enough to support that much information in 2014 🙂
Nowadays Google doesn’t send traffic at all so we have to change everything, so bear with us again while we clean everything and start with fresh recipes. As we said on the homepage
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