Thin Content
Thin content refers to web pages that provide little or no unique value to users — pages with minimal text, auto-generated content, or content that is substantially duplicated from other sources.
Google's Panda algorithm (now part of the core algorithm) targets sites with a high ratio of thin content. Types include: doorway pages, auto-generated pages with no real value, scraped content, and pages with only a sentence or two of original text.
Thin content is different from short content — a 200-word page that fully answers a specific question is not thin. A 2,000-word page of keyword-stuffed filler is. Quality and user value are what matter.
Fix thin content by either improving it (add unique, valuable information), consolidating it (merge similar thin pages into one comprehensive page), or removing it (noindex or delete pages that serve no purpose). Indxel flags pages with word counts below a configurable threshold.
Related terms
Duplicate Content
Duplicate content refers to identical or substantially similar content appearing at multiple URLs, which can confuse search engines about which version to index and rank.
Keyword Cannibalization
Keyword cannibalization occurs when multiple pages on the same website target the same keyword or search intent, causing them to compete against each other in search results.
Noindex
Noindex is a robots meta tag directive that instructs search engines to exclude a page from their search index, preventing it from appearing in search results.
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