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Google On Recipe Pages - Are They Getting Too Long? - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Monday, March 7, 2022 13:55 ET , Source: NewsService

Long recipe pages could be made shorter by separating them into multiple pieces of content. Google explains how.

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Google hears the complaints about recipe pages getting too long, and suggests more concise pages might be better for users.

This is stated by Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout recorded on March 4.

During the show Mueller gets a question from a food blogger asking about the SEO implications of writing multiple pieces of content about the same recipe.

Their idea is to have a page with just the recipe, and have supporting information about that recipe on separate pages.

They ask Mueller if this is a good strategy in comparison to having all the information about one recipe on a single page

Separating Long Recipe Pages Into Multiple Articles

Mueller believes creating one page to focus on a recipe, and separating supporting content out to other pages, would be a great structure for users.

That’s based on feedback Mueller hears from people saying there’s too much extra content on recipe pages before getting to the actual recipe.

Mueller says it would be fine, from Google’s point of view, to spread the content across multiple pages:

“From Google’s point of view, this is definitely not problematic. It’s something where, especially...



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