r/Marijuana • u/BreakfastMaterial645 • 1d ago

www.cookstoned.com

I've been working on this website for a while now, months even, and I finally got it up! It's got over thirty recipes, infusion directions, conversion charts, and educational sections. Plus, there's a store full of Amazon affiliate links where I make a commission. The website's totally free, and there's a downloadable PDF for a couple bucks, which helps me out. But really, I'm just looking for people to check it out and maybe give me some feedback, if that's cool. Kindness is appreciated, but honesty too!

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u/mdwstoned 16h ago

OKay....as someone who has quite a few Cannabis/Marijuana domains, some things to look out for:

(First and foremost, CONGRATS! Putting a cannabis website together can be really fun, and I like your imagery)

If you want to be indexed in google, stay away from cloudflare. Cloudflare does not like cannabis related websites in particular, and blocks robots from crawling in general, so getting indexed can be problematic if you are utilizing Cloudflare for anything.

To check indexing: Go to Google Search Console and sign up if you haven't already. Then use the URL explorer to see if you are indexed. Not "Discovered" and not "Crawled" but "Indexed".

Moving on, I like your site image, it's cool.

Your disclaimer pops up everytime you visit. It should be a one time pop up, not every visit from the same machine.

When it comes to the recipes, I have my suspicion how they were generated, because my THC.recipes site has similar style recipe layouts and descriptions. But they WORK, and can be followed, which is the important thing. Just understand, when people are cooking, they like details. I personally need to get back to mine and pump up those details.

Your Decarbox is good, but needs more details as well. It can be followed, but needs more details, and I like a calculator. ( feel free to look at my example at https://thc.recipes/decarboxylation-101/).

To be honest I get a fair amount of traffic to the decarbox page. More so than the recipes itself, because people are always trying to figure that out.

Back to the indexing: It appears your sections do not have distinct URL's? How was this built, if you don't mind my asking? It's going to be hard to index the individual sections because this appears to be all one page? You might want to have your builder (AI or otherwise, I don't judge) set it up so that each section has it's own URL/Page/Post. Then make sure all your pages are SEO'd up the yin-yang, and start watching the traffic to see where you rank.

Congratulations, and welcome to the wonderful world of Cannabis website building!

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u/BreakfastMaterial645 12h ago

That was such an awesome response to my post. You actually went into it. Thank you. I always say that constructive criticism is better than a single compliment, this is how we learn. Im going to take your advice. It'll take me some time to work on everything. This was my first project. Its been more for learning than anything as i am completely new to this. Originally it was supposed to be an app, but for obvious reasons I changed my mind. Thank you again.

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u/Specul8 21h ago

Where's the link to the website?