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Copy the link of the recipe page you want and it'll remove all the useless SEO blather and give you, well, just the damn recipe.

No, I don't care if it's your grama's recipe from the 1800s and how it's changed your life and the life of your children and their children and your uncle and his uncle and your dog's groomers third cousin.

No, I don't care that you live in southern wherever and it's "that time of the year" for you to make something I make all the time and oh you need to show me pictures of your newly renovated kitchen while you're at it too?...

www.justtherecipe.com

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[–] warbond@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've read that the reason for the useless stories prior to recipes is that the more you have to scroll the more ads you will see, or it counts differently as a page view, something like that. Basically just another example of enshittification to please the search engine.

[–] Dalacos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It also helps move your page to the top of searches. AKA, SEO or "Search Engine Optimization". Now, why it does that I have no clue, but Google algorithms decided it was important for insert reason... ???

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Mostly keyword or phrase spamming. The more times you mention something, the more important it's deemed.

If they blather on, it's because they are repeating a special phrase that will help boost ranking.

It's also part of the short description used for snippet results, which also conveniently obfuscates the actual content.

Honestly blows not being able to scan the short description to see if the recipe for stuffed peppers is a real one, or some fancy vegan version with rose hissacea or whatever that isn't mentioned in the title making you think it's a normal one.