I was one of the guys to help create a site called indianrecipe (.org). This was a site where we focused on bringing traditional Indian food recipes with the introduction to video recipes and the feature to preview Indian cook books via e-book style.
No one at the time was doing this so we thought it would be a great idea to create a cultural food website by sharing unique content which was not available on the web. The site has changed a bit since we stopped getting involved but is still able to hold on to the #1 title on two of the biggest search engines. I did a bit of research for this post and it seems like there is more duplicate content on the site and it’s not being updated frequently, which is important. There is no other site offering content like this one. I think we took the right step when we created this 2 years ago.
Our job was to look for a domain name which can be found easily on the web. During our domain search we can across “indianrecipe (.org)” which was available for $8 a year. We first hesitated because of the .org but after doing some research we all voted it was workable if put love into it.
If you haven’t read our post, then check it out here: Our Previous Post
Once you read the previous, you’ll understand more about what I’m writing about.
So today the results are as follow:
Google Adwords Tool Search Results
As you can see it is saying that Local September search was a little over 300k, while the global search volume was under a quarter million. Estimated CPC cost to be in the top 3 as Google’s Sponsor on Adwords is costing advertisers $0.47 cents. I remember when Google was paying much more in 2007 via adsense with higher search volumes.
Google Trends
I’d figure the most searches for Indian Recipe would be from India since it is there home country food, but it was also very interesting to see that it’s influence in food has traveled globally away from India to other countries such as Australia, Europe, Africa and North American Countries.
I changed the subregion to target only the United States of America and check out the results:
Maybe it’s not a bad idea to open up a Indian Food restaurants in those top 5 states. 
Today’s Search Engine Results for our Indian Food Recipe website:
Yahoo! Result for “Indian Recipe” hits #1 – Thanks Yahoo!
#1 Result on Google for “Indian Recipe” – Thanks Google!
Almost #1? on Bing
Overall, we wanted to add an updated post to the previous one from Wordkit. I think the combination of having unique content with the power of users leaving reviews on StumbleUpon has helped mold the site for the users to become comfortable to cook Indian Food. We wanted to create a site where people can easily read recipes and make Indian Food with the simplicity of following directions. It’s entertaining to watch the videos and to view the delicious Indian food photos.
Congratulations to IndianRecipe (.org) – You guys finally did it!
Tags: #1 on search engine, indian recipe, seo tips for food sites
