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Filler content is the cost of ad supported content sites. Pay for a Cooks Illustrates or NYT Cooking subscription and all these problems go away.
by com2kid 7y ago
Filler content is the cost of ad supported content sites.
Pay for a Cooks Illustrates or NYT Cooking subscription and all these problems go away.
- jrochkind1 7y agoI have never understood what the filler content on recipe pages is accomplishing though. It somehow makes the page do better in google? How?
- wolco 7y agoPlain and simple, Google won't rank you without it. Google looks for additional filler when ranking. Otherwise you would see different kinds of sites.
- DeathArrow 7y agoThen we have to blame Google, not the authors.
- jrochkind1 7y agoRight, but is there any explanation for why a recipe page with several pages of filler content ranks better on Google though? I assume (?) it is not google engineers tuning for this particular outcome on purpose... Not all that plain and simple.
- com2kid 7y agoMore space for ads.
- dceddia 7y agoAnd if you want it all in one place, an entire compendium of tried and tested recipes, pick up a copy of one of Cooks Illustrated's New Best Recipe books, even an older one. I have a copy from probably 5 years ago that seems to be out of print and can be had for $7 used. It's 900+ pages of well-tested recipes where each one has a narrative about how they tested and arrived at the final recipe.
- com2kid 7y agoThe website is searchable and has videos. :-D Cooks Illustrated is amazing, the rigor they go through testing everything, and adapting to available ingredients, makes for such incredible reliability!