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Why Google’s recipe results are meaningless.
Interesting article with some good quotes from @meathead, whom I have been sharing stories about online recipe writing with for at least a decade. A few things I’d add@to the discussion: google... https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/why-googles-recipe-results-are-meaningless.html
Interesting article with some good quotes from @meathead, whom I have been sharing stories about online recipe writing with for at least a decade. A few things I’d add@to the discussion: google... https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/why-googles-recipe-results-are-meaningless.html
... is the reason why recipe timings are so unreasonably low. Recipes that take half an hour or less are more highly visible, so there’s a lot of incentive for sites to compress a 1 hr. Recipe into half an hour for that ranking. (From my experiencia neither @seriouseats ...
... nor @TestKitchen ever cut their predicted recipe times short, nor does @nytfood.)
My personal long-term strategy with SEO algorithms has been to try and completely ignore them. Make good quality stuff that people want to visit, let your audience grow organically and your...
My personal long-term strategy with SEO algorithms has been to try and completely ignore them. Make good quality stuff that people want to visit, let your audience grow organically and your...
...voice to grow from there, and assume that google will at least help the people who specifically want to find you, find you, and don’t focus much attention on playing the SEO game because as any web media person can tell you, as soon as the SEO system gets gamed, the rules...
...change and you have to develop new SEO gaming strategies all over again. I prefer to just focus resources on doing work that makes you happy.
Also most important: ask yourself seriously how much traffic of fame or whatever motivated you is enough, and are you able to...
Also most important: ask yourself seriously how much traffic of fame or whatever motivated you is enough, and are you able to...
...stop once you get to wherever that point is? Ultimately, do what you enjoy doing and you’ll be far more satisfied with your work than endlessly chasing that golden ring of SEO.
I also used to get really upset when I saw one of my recipes or techniques being used by a site without credit that would then show up above my original article about it on search engine results. These days I take a more relaxed approach to it and realize that for whatever...
...reason, google is deciding more people want to read an article written by that person than by me, and that’s OK. As long as people are finding the recipes or techniques useful, that’s the main goal. @meathead must have thoughts on this as his techniques get used everywhere...
Credit is always nice but at some point you just have to be happy with what you’ve done and keep focused on what else you’d like to do in the future.
