I'm genuinely a bit confused by the recipe blog business model. Like there's got to be one, right? People don't usually spew the same story about their grandma hundreds of times on a real blog.

Just hitting keywords for search? Many of them don't even have ads so I feel like that can't be it. Maybe referrals?

SEO. Longer articles get ranked higher.

Makes sense, thanks, but how do you actually make money from that without tons of ads? I realise this is a super naive question haha

> without tons of ads

This is a requirement? I literally only browse the web with an ad blocker but I always assumed those sites had tons of ads.

Lol, that's funny - good point, I completely forgot I had an ad blocker running 24/7. I don't think I've browsed the raw internet in more than a decade...

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