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What could be worse than recipe pages that are 20 pages worth of text with the recipe hiding somewhere among the text?

by tmaly 2y ago

dgellow 2y ago
They could split it in multiple pages instead of a single page! Imagine having to click “next part” >10 times just to see if you eventually end up with a section that contains the actual recipe
- cush 2y ago
  And unskippable ads after every third image. Then the moment you get to the final image there’s an email registration wall. It has a little X button that doesn’t work on iOS.
  - dgellow 2y ago
    I see that we have a connoisseur of the devil’s work here :)
- BobaFloutist 2y ago
  The thing is, there's a limit to how many times the typical user would do that before just clicking back to google for a different recipe.
  - dgellow 2y ago
    Create a fake google page, inject it into their history, the users goes back, sees something google like, now you’re 100% evil, congrats! :)
  - brokenmachine 2y ago
    They also break the back button.
    - khedoros1 2y ago
      That's why I open search results in a new tab, and close the tab to go back to the search.
      - brokenmachine 2y ago
        Me too, but I still hate it when they break the back button.
Mathnerd314 2y ago
For me the recipe sites are pretty usable (with adblock), there is generally a "jump to recipe" button to skip past the text. And sometimes I even read the text, if it is a good recipe the text often has useful information like substitutions and preparation techniques. Certainly a "just the recipe" website format would be worse SEO-wise, but I am not so sure it would be more useful.
IncreasePosts 2y ago
Almost all of them now have a "jump to recipe" link at the top of the page.
aaronwall 2y ago
Sites that have a poor user experience by design create the ranking signals for their own demotion by such design. Get a lot of traffic from search with not many people liking the destination page and that ranking will quickly go away.

What could be worse than recipe pages that are 20 pages worth of text with the recipe hiding somewhere among the text?

by tmaly 2y ago

What could be worse than recipe pages that are 20 pages worth of text with the recipe hiding somewhere among the text?

They could split it in multiple pages instead of a single page! Imagine having to click “next part” >10 times just to see if you eventually end up with a section that contains the actual recipe

cush 2y ago
And unskippable ads after every third image. Then the moment you get to the final image there’s an email registration wall. It has a little X button that doesn’t work on iOS.
- dgellow 2y ago
  I see that we have a connoisseur of the devil’s work here :)
BobaFloutist 2y ago
The thing is, there's a limit to how many times the typical user would do that before just clicking back to google for a different recipe.
- dgellow 2y ago
  Create a fake google page, inject it into their history, the users goes back, sees something google like, now you’re 100% evil, congrats! :)
- brokenmachine 2y ago
  They also break the back button.
  - khedoros1 2y ago
    That's why I open search results in a new tab, and close the tab to go back to the search.
    - brokenmachine 2y ago
      Me too, but I still hate it when they break the back button.

Mathnerd314 2y ago

For me the recipe sites are pretty usable (with adblock), there is generally a "jump to recipe" button to skip past the text. And sometimes I even read the text, if it is a good recipe the text often has useful information like substitutions and preparation techniques. Certainly a "just the recipe" website format would be worse SEO-wise, but I am not so sure it would be more useful.

IncreasePosts 2y ago

Almost all of them now have a "jump to recipe" link at the top of the page.

aaronwall 2y ago

Sites that have a poor user experience by design create the ranking signals for their own demotion by such design. Get a lot of traffic from search with not many people liking the destination page and that ranking will quickly go away.