CooksRecipes.com:
A Premier Cooking & Recipe Internet Resource
About CooksRecipes.com
and Its founder, Hope Pryor:
Since its debut in the latter half of 1998,
CooksRecipes.com has evolved into one of the most popular and
largest cooking and recipe sites on the Internet. It all began
when I purchased a computer in 1998 and first became acquainted
with the Internet. I soon discovered web pages created just for
the fun of it, and was immediately smitten by the seemingly magic
ability to display words and images on a computer screen via
the Internet that could be seen by anyone across the world who
had access to the Internet. I taught myself this amazing ability
by reading every "how-to" article I could find on the
subject of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), the basic building
blocks of web page construction. With my newly acquired skill,
I decided to combine it with my life-long love of the culinary
arts and construct a useful cooking and recipe site that would
be comparable in quality content to the large corporation-run
recipe sites already online. My intention was that CooksRecipes.com
would be a recipe resource that visitors would find enjoyable
to visit, easy to navigate, and be able to choose with confidence
any recipe without doubt of its accuracy.
Today, I can proudly say that the success
of the website has exceeded far beyond any expectations I had
for it in the beginning. Not one thin dime has been spent toward
advertising and promoting CooksRecipes.com. Promotion has been
by free submission to major search engines, indexes, link exchanges,
and word-of-mouth. It has not been a fast and easy journey; it
took over a year for Yahoo to list my site in the recipe category
of their index. However, less than a year later CooksRecipes.com
was listed in their "Top 10 Most Popular Recipe Sites".
Yahoo no longer features such a list, but you will find CooksRecipes.com
listed among the first ten sites in that same category. Recipes
are the number one searched document on the Internet. Type in
the word, "recipes", using Google Search and CooksRecipes.com
generally places number 4 or 5 on the first page of results.
CooksRecipes.com averages 40,000 unique
visitors, and 90,000 page views per day from over 100 countries
worldwide, with the majority of visitors stemming from the United
States, followed by Canada, Great Britain, Australia and Europe.
There are over 10,000 opt-in only subscribers to my enewsletter,
The Daily Recipe, which I began offering to visitors just a year
ago. Revenue is generated by advertisement and commission sales
from affiliate partnerships with such companies as Better Homes
and Gardens, The Home Marketplace.com, JustFlowers.com, Pfaltzgraff,
and more.
Young and old, male and female, moms and
dads, college students, newlyweds, beginner cooks to executive
chefs, those who love to cook, those looking for a lost recipe,
or those who simply like to browse recipes...all eventually find
their way to CooksRecipes.com.
