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Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by MereInterest »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #319
notatoad wrote: post #262

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Subscribing to r/baking has been enlightening. The people who write those pages of text you have to skip over to read their recipes actually think they're adding value and that the readers of their recipe blogs are there for the stories as much as for the recipes. Maybe they're right and some people do love the stories, but they're definitely not just there for SEO anymore. At the very most cynical interpretation, sc…

Many essays-before-recipes summarize the experimentation process, what worked and what didn't, why an unconventional ingredient is used, why no stock is used when traditional recipes call for it. Without the context, many recipes just seem wrong and some real gems would be passed over

When those are the case, I really like it. Things like The Food Lab are joys to read, because they go into the detail of why ingredients are present and what variations/substitutions preserve the flavor of the dish. But those are few and far between. Most of the time, the filler consists of stories and anecdotes about the childhood memories that the recipe invokes, followed by the exact same recipe as is on a dozen other sites.

Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by pandapower2 »

beefield wrote: post #101

I guess if google was willing to do no evil for a moment and actually think what would make both their search better for the user and www better place overall, they would put a big button next to each search result saying roughly "Hey, dear google. Every thing I have ever seen in this domain is full of crap. Please do not ever again show any page from this domain in my search results" And then use the information fro…

Hiding a domain for just you is fine but this isnt a good idea.

>And then use the information from this button to lower the search score for any domain with high level of users willing to ignore a domain completely.

Its trivial to game and becomes just another service for SEO consultants to sell ie having some mix of botfarms and humans in low cost of living countries flag your competitors sites.

Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by guelo »

CondensedBrain wrote: post #339
com2kid wrote: post #86

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The flip side of this is that the cookbooks rarely have super niche recipes. Even some of the highest rated "authentic" cookbooks have the flavor level tuned way down to be more "suitable for American tastes". The best cooking tutorials are barely translated Youtube videos. Or even better, recipes going through Google Translate. (Or get a multi-lingual friend... :) ) Cook's Illustrated also does some 100% legit inter…

>> "I've also enjoyed the organic explosion of low carb cooking that has happened online. I have been witness to the community growing from its very beginnings less than a decade ago when it was just some people trying to make weight loss taste good" This is way older than a decade. I knew people getting into it and sharing recipes on Usenet. The current boom is new, but online low carb communities are ancient in int…

The original low carb fad was Dr Atkin's diet in the late 90s.

Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by [deleted] »

theturtletalks wrote: post #21
caiocaiocaio wrote: post #14

Google any recipe, and there are at least 5 paragraphs (usually a lot more) of copy that no one will ever read, and isn't even meant for human consumption. Google "How to learn x", and you'll usually get copy written by people who know nothing about the subject, and maybe browsed Amazon for 30 minutes as research. Real, useful results that used to be the norm for Google are becoming more and more rare as time goes by…

So true. Whenever I look up something now I just add Reddit afterwards. It's been working well so far, but I guess that can be manipulated as well.

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Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by CondensedBrain »

moltar wrote: post #322
lostctown wrote: post #302

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I'm logged out by default and only log in to comment, which is rare. I don't like leaving my username up for display if a friend/family member has to borrow my laptop for something. I've engaged in a couple of communities that are a little more counter-cultural than my peers.

There’s an extension that redirects to old reddit.

You can opt out of the redesign in settings. I don't know how long that will last. Sometimes it shows the new one, but it's rare.

Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by pdimitar »

CondensedBrain wrote: post #360
pdimitar wrote: post #324

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What I don't like about your line of thinking is that creating such content should even cost money. Knowledge should be free at our point in time and supposed evolutional stage. But it's not. I'd gladly donate some local lectures on the stuff I know if I had the time. But I wouldn't charge money for it. Knowledge should be free. And internet should have become mega yellow pages on steroids like a decade ago.

>> "Knowledge should be free at our point in time and supposed evolutional stage. But it's not." We only evolved technologically. Our economic systems are still stuck in the 19th century. The planet's cultures are still recovering from a string of empires that valued domination and assimilation over cooperation. For now, I have to charge for my skills to live. Some day I hope to be able to have hobbies and share thei…

Can't disagree, you're crushingly correct.

I don't want to charge for programming either but yeah, this is the era we're living in.

Re: The internet is an SEO landfill

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Post by ip26 »

corodra wrote: post #50
caiocaiocaio wrote: post #14

Google any recipe, and there are at least 5 paragraphs (usually a lot more) of copy that no one will ever read, and isn't even meant for human consumption. Google "How to learn x", and you'll usually get copy written by people who know nothing about the subject, and maybe browsed Amazon for 30 minutes as research. Real, useful results that used to be the norm for Google are becoming more and more rare as time goes by…

Those are the absolute worst. A recipe with someone's jackass life story for 2000 words. You start to wonder if it's even a recipe at all. You have to scroll for a good minute, hoping you didn't miss the recipe. Then come the ads that reformat the size of the page. Everything jumps around and you have to rescroll again. Exactly why I stick to cookbooks in the past year or so. More and more, "fuck the internet", long…

It gets better. Or, well, worse. Last time I ran into one of those, I wanted to make curry. After the 2000 words gushing about how it was the most delicious thing ever and how they "couldn't even", the recipe was to pour a jar of premade curry over rice.
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