Your post shows you don't know much of how the game works.
I didn't say all recipe sites suck I said the ones he linked sucked, he is talking about recipe sites with hundred if thousands likes, shares etc, why did you not post one of those to show us what you mean?
Instead he posts the shitty ones.
I myself working on a good recipes and cocktail recipe site myself so you don't need to tell me the potential.
you mean you assume from my post that i don't know much how the game works
let me tell you my best skills are at facebook and i'm able to grow daily +100k combined on my pages 70% of that amount being tier 1 countries
so yeah i don't know how it works
why i mention facebook ? because all the traffic of that site comes from facebook
the 1st site recieves +700k visitors per month not counting page views impressions etc...
and all those visitors from tier 1 countries
how it can be a crappy site as you claim it is ?
maybe your site is better but post the link here ?
won't you do it ?
fine then your claim that your site might be better than those is just words ...
and you don't know what pages they have just because u found 1 or 2 pages with links to those sites doesnt mean the owner has only those pages
and as i said the traffic comes from social media not seo
the quality for social media is perfect the owner doesn't focus on seo so he/she doesn't need to make the site more appealing
and you said they are clones of each other well his work is on social media not websites why the owner has to spend all his/her time decorating the site when he/she can grow the pages more ?
i know the sites are not perfect but if you know anything about facebook you should know it doesn't really matter
PS: i have a wp site with twenty twelve theme
i add only posts no images no tags no categories no menu etc etc u know that particular site earns me 50 euroes per day ?
while i tried the same thing but on a nice looking site that ended up earning only 10 euroes per day
it's like your telling me better have a nice looking site than an MFA (made for adsense) site when the MFA cleary earns x5 than the normal site
if you can afford the lower ctr or the high loading pages or extra time for better content go for it man, but don't claim someone's else site looks crappy when it looks pretty good....
Those sites are earning awesome traffic and almost all of it premium now if the owner is skilled enough to send that traffic and it being premium countries and stupid enough to have some crappy looking sites when he could earn more if they are better looking ? i doubt that !