why does having a long story before a recipe help websites get better search engine results?

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Whenever I’m looking for recipes online there is invariable a long story about the author’s family and which family members like this dish and which ones do not. I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks this is vey uninteresting and just wants to get to the cookie recipe but I’ve heard that doing this gives websites better chances of turning up higher in search results.

Why do these stories improve search rankings? Who decided to set the settings that caused this?

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