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Just opened incognito window and entered "brownie recipe"... the first link is to "Love and Lemons" site which seems pretty good - there is a pretty small intro
by theamk 3y ago
Just opened incognito window and entered "brownie recipe"... the first link is to "Love and Lemons" site which seems pretty good - there is a pretty small introduction, but then there is ingredients list, steps, etc.. top 5 links all look pretty good to me. (At least in web design area... I have no ideas if recipes themselves are tasty or not)
Maybe it's a regional thing (I am in the US)? Or your profile is messed up? Try searching in incognito window.
- Fricken 3y agoThe first time I visited "Love and Lemons" (the first non-sponsored link I got) I scrolled down looking for the actual recipie until I gave up. Right before you made this comment I checked again and found the link to the recipie under the introduction as you described.
- satvikpendem 3y agoMost if not all recipe sites have a jump to recipe button, as de facto required by search engines.
- Fricken 3y agoWay too much fucking around.
- Moldoteck 3y agoto click on a button?
- kiicia 3y agoYes, issue is why this button even exist instead of actual content being first and foremost
- Fricken 3y agoYes. I wasn't searching for a button, I was searching for a brownie recipie
- al_borland 3y agoIf the developer has to put that button on the site, they’ve already failed. They know it’s a poor design, and are trying to add features to point to that will absolve them, instead of fixing the core problem which wouldn’t force the user to look for a skip button. First time users of a site have no reason to look for a button like that, when the standard control of every other site for decades has been to scroll. I also just went to the site. When I went to tap the jump link, a modal popped up and blocked me. I dismissed that and tapped the link and it jumped me down the page to yet another request to sign up for a newsletter I don’t want. Now the top 3rd of the page is a video that started to auto-play; I had to tap to dismiss that. When I scrolled into the recipe section I got yet another modal trying to get me to sign up for an account so I can save the recipe… as if bookmarks don’t exist. I dismissed that, and now I can see the recipe. There are 3 ads in the middle of the recipe that break it up, some with more auto-playing video, and the scroll keeps readjusting itself based on ads and BS popping in and out. The bottom of the page also has an ad banner to dismiss, a bookmark icon that bounces occasional (which is certainly just another attempt to get me to create an account), links to other recipes are sliding in and out depending on the direction I scroll, to try to get me to go other places on the site… and to top it off, the Pinterest flag blocks content, depending on where I scroll, while sometimes being blocked itself by the aforementioned recipe slide-in. How can anyone defend all this? It’s horrible.
- Moldoteck 3y agoI'm not defending it. It's a result of google's ranking system+ad system. All these descriptions are not for users to read, these are for google crawler to rank higher in search+to get more money from randomly placed ads. If you don't do this, chances are high your website will rank lower compared to someone that did this considering other factors are the same. I'm just saying that out of the all bad options, this option with a button is less bad, you skip all(most) unnecessary stuff with a button click
- al_borland 3y agoI think the main point is that all this trash is a problem Google created, and has no incentive to fix. The web would be a much better place with these practices weren’t the foundation of SEO.
- lupire 3y agoIs that really a ranking signal?
- browningstreet 3y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=brownie+recipe&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brownie+recipe&ia=web Returned Love and Lemons first too. Never heard of them, but their SEO must be amazing.
- locuscoeruleus 3y agoKagi gave me the same
- kiicia 3y agoSo kagi displays spam in the same way as other search engines do
- gloosx 3y agoI'm pretty sure it's because they integrated some google thing in order so show that rating and reviews right below the search result. It has the highest rating/amount or reviews ratio so it feels like this logic is putting it to the first result. Will be not surprised if most of these comments and reviews are some language models talking to each other, it's a bit uncommon to see THOUSANDS of comments, ratings and reviews on a recipe site, probably SEO optimisation.
- NikkiA 3y agoI get BBC Good Food as the first response, which is even better.
- wackget 3y agoJust checked out Love and Lemons. Sorry but I can't say it impressed me at all. The vast majority of the page is blogspam garbage. Nobody needs a ten-paragraph introduction and an explanation of why you're using cocoa powder and vanilla in a brownie recipe. Interestingly the first result for "brownie recipe" for me is BBC Food which is about as close to no-BS as you'll find.
- FragrantRiver 3y agoYour brownies are probably going to suck. Just because you can't be arsed to read more than two sentences about how to do something doesn't mean others can't.
- nullhole 3y agoIt's 299 words (so close to a round number!) of worse-than-useless filler before the recipe. You get two amazon sponsored links and one blog plug for some author with that. There's also an interstitial you have to click through. I can see why GP was not impressed.
- pb7 3y agoThe very first thing on the page is a "Jump to recipe" link. If you too are a victim of dwindling attention spans like the rest of us, you have the option to skip straight past the beautiful photos and background.