How to make Google include our recipe pages in its main index?
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We have developed a recipe search engine www.edamam.com and serve the content of over 500+ food bloggers and major recipe websites. Our legal obligations do not allow us to show the actual recipe preparation info (e.g. the most valuable from the content), we can only show a few images, the ingredients and nutrition information. Most of the unique content goes to the source/blog.
By submitting XML sitemaps on GWT we now have around 500K pages indexed, however only a few hundred appear in Google's main index and we are looking for a solution to include all of them in the index.
Also good to know is that it appears that all our top competitors are in the exactly same situation, so it is a challenging question.
Any ideas will be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Lily
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Hi guys
Thanks for your replies. It is the main challenge, yes, to get the recipe pages indexed without being able to provide unique content. We do not have copyright problem because we have contracts with the sources.
Lily
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Agreed, it's not easy getting duplicate content indexed, and usually, that's a good thing.
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Maybe your problem is that your ingredients list, images and nutritional information seem to be taken from other websites?
So, you might have a panda problem and you might a copyright problem.
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