You're given 10,000 recipes and told to build a site--what would you do?
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Say you were given a list of 10,000 recipes and asked to build an SEO friendly site. Would you build a recipe search engine and index the search results (of course making sure that IA and user engagement metrics are great)?
Or, would you try to build static pages?
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I have also one https://besttoasterovenguides.com/ about kitchen niche. Can someone check it's not showing any links correctly.
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I would use tools liek copyscape or anyother to see if the recipes (exact text) are already not available online so you won't get into any sort of duplication issues.
Considering 10,000 it will take some time for sure.
If its not copied material then surely go for a website.
Building static pages will take much more time compared to using a cms i guess.
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There are some great responses on the SEO aspect of your project already from Keri and Matt. As far as building the site, I would build it off of WordPress and use a custom post type for "Recipes", and custom taxonomies for "ingredients" and "type" etc... Then you can use the default WP search function and taxonomy lists for users to easily search for the right recipe.
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I'd ask if the recipes were already on the web and see if I'm going to be fighting a huge duplicate content problem against an established site.
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I don't know that they're mutually exclusive. I think you need to create a page for each of the recipes. Then I think you need a great search engine for it (search by ingredient, by course, by main protein, by what's in pantry, etc.) You'll want to definitely get your ideas from successful sites like AllRecipes.com, Taste.com.au, FoodNetwork.com and such.
Also - from an SEO/on-site perspective, you need to figure out how to get integrated hRecipe (schema/rich snippet) data into Google. Search "banana bread" click "more" then "Recipes" - at the top you'll see Search Tools > Ingredients. You need your ingredients for every one of those 10k recipes to show up in this part of Google. This is how food bloggers search and they're going to be a HUGE part of your audience.
Make sure each can be rated, and if I were doing this from scratch right now, I'd make sure everyone who submits UGC in the future has a place to put their rel=author on each recipe. If you can integrate ingredients, rel=author and ratings, you'll be on the way to great food SEO.
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I would look at similar sites. Not sure where you are located, but here in Australia we have a great site called Taste (Taste.com.au).
There's got to be tonnes of great recipe sites like that - I'd just copy elements of what they are doing. Or at least use it as a starting point to do some significant research.
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