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I thought this was just a "natural" trend for advertising or something, I didn't realize it was a SEO thing.

I've been noticing more and more that every time I'm looking for a recipe, I end up with a blog post the size of a novella as the first few results.


Recipe pages are long because Google penalizes sites with "high bounce rate", i.e. where the user opened the page, didn't interact with it (clicked a link, scrolled x% of the screen) and left, or clicked Back.

A recipe blog post where you can simply copy/paste the recipe into your notes app is going to receive a bad SEO grade.

That's why so much of the Internet feels so 'corporate' or make so many seemingly 'WTF' choices. They are optimizing around a monetization and growth strategy, not for your experience as a user.


> Recipe pages are long because Google penalizes sites with "high bounce rate", i.e. where the user opened the page, didn't interact with it (clicked a link, scrolled x% of the screen) and left, or clicked Back. A recipe blog post where you can simply copy/paste the recipe into your notes app is going to receive a bad SEO grade.

Do many people actually copy-paste recipes? I usually open a recipe page and keep it open until I'm done with the dish). If I like the result I may copy the recipe.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fella https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fella

Nearly every usage of "fella" I've heard has had a "male" implication. At least in US English.


> Nearly every usage of "fella" I've heard has implied that it referred to a male.

Neat, and I've heard it implied multiple times to refer to generic groups of people, in US English as well too just like you. The thing though we need to consider is definitions, facts, sentence context, and even the auhtor's intent much more heavily then both of our personal experiences.

It can easily be argued based on context that the author's intent was to refer to a group of people generically, they even used the "nonstandard" and generic version of the word.

Personal anecdotes do not make facts.


> Personal anecdotes do not make facts.

That's precisely why I provided links to two dictionaries. Not the definition google spoon feeds you when you type in "define fella"


I provided facts as well, so let's use your own sources shall we?

  A person in the same position, involved in the same activity, or otherwise associated with another. [1]

You conveniently ignored that when you attempted to mispaint actual facts in your comment. Here I'll even add another source:

  ​used of people or a person with whom you share something, esp. the same kind of job, interest, or experience [2]
[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fellow

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fello...



Did you read my original comment at all? I'm sorry, I'm not engaging you on this any further.


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