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Right, but when I search "cookie recipe", there are millions of pages that match in the index. Yes, popularity is a good starting point, but even that has its l
by ehsankia 6y ago
Right, but when I search "cookie recipe", there are millions of pages that match in the index. Yes, popularity is a good starting point, but even that has its limits. All things equal, I'd much rather have a page that loads in 1s than one that loads in 10.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI'd also much rather have a page that brings me to a cookie recipe when I search "cookie recipe", but Google ranks pages with tons extraneous text, images and ads above your bare bones recipe site. This has given rise to an immense amount of blog spam on Google, where you have to scroll through paragraphs and paragraphs of inane content created by an army of underpaid writers just to get to the relevant information you searched for.
- ehsankia 6y agoI'd honestly be curious to see a screenshot of your search result for "cookie recipe" because that's definitely not my experience.
- caw 6y agoMy top result is a blog format recipe — recipe at end of page, though this one has a “jump to” button. https://joyfoodsunshine.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-chip-cookies/ https://joyfoodsunshine.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-chip-... The second recipe result is Betty Crocker and as you’d expect — recipe at top, steps with photos after. I personally find more of the former than the latter when looking for specific recipes (Red wine chocolate cake was my most recent search)