<story><title>DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API</title><url>http://blog.punchfork.com/2011/07/05/announcing-the-punchfork-recipe-api-and-a-search-partnership-with-duckduckgo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DanielBMarkham</author><text>My wife and I have a small site that serves up hamburger casserole recipes ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;p&gt;She was getting over 15K visits per month -- the site made almost nothing, but we enjoyed creating it together, watching the numbers and responding to emails. And the numbers kept climbing -- at least until a couple of weeks ago.&lt;p&gt;I noticed the traffic numbers starting to drop. I was wondering why. I thought about digging into it but put it off. Perhaps this new feature at DDG did it? If so, fine with me. They doing a much more awesome job than we did.&lt;p&gt;The only reason I mention it is because this is the type of question that if you knew enough, you could find the answers in SEO-land. But for a little mom-and-pop site, lots of times you don&apos;t have that luxury. You&apos;re hot for a few months then suddenly it all dies off and you never know why. You could be adding the best content you can and still all the visitors disappear. No skin off of my back in this particular case, but this has to be frustrating for lots of folks -- especially if your site is a startup instead of something silly like recipes.&lt;p&gt;Way cool UI! I think we&apos;ll add it -- looks like it might be a nice fit.</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API</title><url>http://blog.punchfork.com/2011/07/05/announcing-the-punchfork-recipe-api-and-a-search-partnership-with-duckduckgo/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>po</author><text>My favorite part of punchfork (besides Jeff) are the custom url shorteners. Check out the customize dropdown on the side of a recipe page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nice little touch.</text></comment>