Avellin can provide recipe information to search engines when your recipe card contains enough details. It does not make up missing recipe information.
When recipe information is shared with search engines
A Recipe-labeled post needs a recipe card with:
- a recipe title,
- an image from the card or the post featured image,
- at least one ingredient,
- at least one instruction.
When these are present, Avellin can share the recipe title, image, ingredients and instructions with search engines.
Optional fields
Avellin can also include the recipe description, category, servings, author and publication date when those details are available.
Prep, cook and total times
Keep the time values in your recipe-card HTML matched to the visible Prep, Cook and Total times. For example, use PT10M for 10 minutes, PT1H for 1 hour, and PT1H30M for 1 hour 30 minutes. This helps search engines understand the recipe timing correctly.
Nutrition
If you include nutrition values in the supplied recipe-card HTML, Avellin can pass them along with the recipe information. Include the number of servings as well so the nutrition details have a clear context.
If the recipe card is incomplete
If a post does not contain enough recipe information, Avellin treats it as a normal blog post for search engines instead of inventing missing recipe details.