How to Make Money with Your Recipes

The internet makes it easy to earn real money with your home made recipes. I've been earning money, and I mean real pay-the-bills money, with my recipes for over a year now and I'm here to teach you how to do it too!

If you can spell, have access to a computer, and have a few favorite family recipes that you wouldn't mind sharing with the masses, you really can earn money on the internet with your recipes.

To get started you'll need an account with either Hubpages.com or Squidoo.com. I use both sites and each have their benefits. Both sites are free to join and make it easy for you to design pages for your recipes.

At Hubpages you'll need to sign up for your own affiliate accounts with Adsense, Amazon.com, and Ebay.com before you can start earning money.

At Squidoo they take care of that for you but they share in all of the royalties you earn. I suggest you take a look at both sites and decide which is right for you.

Making recipe pages is the easiest way I've found for stay at home Moms (and Dads) to make money on the internet.

Being a WAHM myself, I was looking for ways that I could earn money writing on the internet. In fact I spent a couple years writing articles at a pay-per-click site before discovering that I was wasting a lot of time for very little money.

I didn't start earning any real money online until I started sharing home style recipes, along with my personal product recommendations at Squidoo and Hubpages.

The Key to Success

After a lot of trial and error I learned that the key to making money with my recipes was to provide people with delicious easy-to-follow recipes that they could make at home while offering suggestions and personal recommendations for the small kitchen appliances and gadgets that I use to prepare each recipe.

People like to know a little bit about the products they intend to buy before they purchase them. They want to know that they aren't wasting money and that the particular product is going to contain value. An honest recommendation from you goes a long way towards helping someone decide which blender, or which panini maker would be the best bet for their money and the best possible utensil to get the job done easily and effectively.

Squidoo and Hubpages both allow you to earn royalties for the products you sell through your recipe pages and for me this has paid off big time.

Beware

Before publishing a recipe page be sure that the recipe is yours to publish. If you are using your Mom's recipes, get her permission. Do not try to take recipes from famous cookbooks or from other places online. That is called plagiarism and it is not cool at all.

Of course you will find recipes that contain the same ingredients and have the same title as yours, (Mom's Home Made Apple Pie, Stringbean Casserole) but your description, and directions should be in your own words and not copied from anywhere else.

Know Your Recipe and Products

The recipe should be something that you are very familiar with and have made several times so that when you give your directions, you can include helpful tips, or tricks, that make the recipe easier for your reader to recreate successfully.

The products you recommend should also be very familiar to you. I suggest that you promote products that you use yourself, or products that you have researched in depth. People always know when you are being sincere and that sincerity goes a long way in helping you sell your chosen kitchen products.

Go the Extra Mile

In addition to your recipe and product recommendations your page should also include links to other recipes that are similar to your own, a personal story about the recipe's history or background, a video demonstration, good photos, and anything else you can find that specifically goes with your recipe that will be helpful and interesting to your reader.

You'll also want to include a cookbook recommendation, or two, that contains similar types of recipes to the one you are sharing.

The web is filled with thousands of recipe sites, in order to earn some real money from your recipes your pages need to be different and stand out from all of the others; the best way to do that is to add your own personal touch and build a page that your readers will want to come back to, and maybe even refer to their friends.

Not Just Recipes

Of course you can make money using Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com to quickly and easily make pages about any topic you like but for me the money is in the recipes!

Good luck with your new venture!