What am I doing wrong?

Hi

I think you should of done a lot of keyword research to know how the market is but i think i can help.

What i suggest you do is not to target high traffic keywords do what i do target keywords in your local areas for example chicken recipes in india this is just an example but i think you get the idea the good thing about these keywords is that they have low competition but also have low traffic but if you target about 10 of these keywords you will get over 1000 unique a month.

Use long tail keywords they help a lot these days also add your keywords in images alt tags as this helps bring in traffic to your websites through image search on google, if someone sees you nice dish in google images they would like to learn how to make that dish.

I can talk a lot about how to rank but these are just a couple of things that will help you. If you just do this with your white hat link building (make sure you use your keywords in live links and content) you should be able to see some difference within 10 days depending on how google values you websites authority.

Hope this helps.

There's a zillion recipe websites...it's going to be hard to crack in. You have to just keep adding content. I recommend adding unique video (it's all about video these days) and social media posting. Tie your social media to your website. Generate a following on social media, that's a huge seo factor these days...

Firstly, you should be aware that there is a great number of recipes websites available, which makes this niche very competitive. Also, in my opinion Google gives more priority to 6 months or older established websites. What you could do is keep posting unique articles and try to build a great attraction on the social media, which would be noticed by the search engines, and potentially help you to get more visitors daily.

If i were you i would do more content marketing by utilizing tool like SocioCaster, making sure to get steady social signal from facebook and other social media to get Google love plus instant traffic from those social media.

Also build fanpage connect with your blog post and use FB ads to kickstart the viral traffic to your site, make sure ONLY post ENGAGING viral content to your fanpage, recipes mostly got great responses of course it also depend on the image you post.

Hope it helps!

Its a good idea to increase your site traffic. Well, you can do both Onpage SEO & Off Page SEO. You can do some Forum posting, Relevant blog commenting, Article submission. You should choose the Do-follow link more & more than the No-follow link. Thanks

Is this a legitimate business?

CaribbeanFood.com

How are you trying to make money? How can you make money by giving people free recipes?

The Amazon links won't pay much.

I would try getting your recipes featured on other recipe websites. That's the only way I can see you getting good back links that move your website farther up in Google's search results.

Have you tried promoting on Pinterest? You can even advertise there. I think for recipes it's really worth it.

Believe it or not, 15 unique daily visits is good for a site that's three months old....especially if you're not hammering away at social media and networking sites. It sounds like you're in one of those situations though where you paid for the work up front without realizing that it's a long, hard struggle to get exposure in a saturated niche, so there's nothing you can do but keep pushing forward.

Find more recipes, post more photos and just keep at it. If the money has run out, then you'll have to do this yourself...but how hard is it to type in a recipe and find a $1 photo anyway?

First you should start with solid keyword research and then do a website audit and edit your content based on your research. Also, make the site more user friendly. I am not crazy about the layout of the recipes page. The social media buttons are unnecessary there because nobody will share a recipe that they haven't seen before. Better use that space for actual content. Also, get on Pinterest and do some solid marketing there.