Comments on: What a Website Can Do about “Thin Content” — 4 Common Scenarios and Solutions

By: web site

web site — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:25:24 +0000

my web site had Thin content with little or no added value so I tried everything but could not get the results Please could you help me?

By: Paula Allen

Paula Allen — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:23:19 +0000

In reply to Henk de Vries. Henk: "I soon realized however that content has to be quality over quantity ..." — How did you learn that lesson? I bet there's a story there. But yes, content is king more than ever.

By: Henk de Vries

Henk de Vries — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:41:18 +0000

I was always taught that content is king so I added as much content as I could to my sites no matter if it was good or bad. I soon realized however that content has to be quality over quantity and I never looked back after that.

By: Paula Allen

Paula Allen — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:46:13 +0000

In reply to Heather E.. Heather: You're welcome, and that's so true. Quality takes effort, but increasingly that's the only type of content getting rewarded. So it's worth the work.

By: Heather E.

Heather E. — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:40:39 +0000

Good write up and information, thanks, Paula. Can’t stress enough, these days, the importance of quality content over quantity. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us!

By: Paula Allen

Paula Allen — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:56:26 +0000

In reply to Dillip. Dillip: In our experience, a website can recover from Panda. However, it typically means that a lot of work is involved, and not every site owner is up for the challenge. Our recommendations generally include consolidating thin content pages, writing new content that is relevant to the theme(s) of the website, and revising pages. It’s definitely not a simple process. Plus, there’s no guarantee that the website will rank as high as it did before being hit by Panda. Adding to your point, we have questioned whether sites following Panda have a real reason to exist and if there might need to be a change in the business model. For example, if the site was a directory with very little original content, it’s going to have a hard time ranking in today’s Google. Changing how the site functions, such as adding user-generated content may be necessary, especially if it’s impossible for the site to write relevant content for all pages.

By: William

William — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:40:49 +0000

This post helps in dissecting and doing away with thin contents. The common scenarios dissected affects relatively many websites today. Well, the practicality of the solutions offered here is impressive. Its time to apply the procedures recommended for each!

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By: Dillip

Dillip — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:15:45 +0000

Great work Paula!
Almost everything is covered regarding thin content (as per your initial advice to avoid Panda). One question I want to put here; can all Panda penalty be reversible? Specially when a very big site got this due to thin content issue. I happened to find opportunity to analyze two big sites (one used to get more than 130000 visits/day & other get 65000 visits/day before the penalty in 2011). first one is just a directory like site and other has all most 50000 pages full of thin content but original one. After so many falls promises from other SEOs to solve the issue and predictable results, they came to me for analysis and I sincerely told them though the penalty can’t be withdrawn fully to get back the previous position, but to certain extent part of the traffic can be regained.

I don’t know whether expert SEOs will agree with me or not but I feel in some peculiar cases, Panda can’t be reversible. I feel Panda reflects the shifting attitude of Google towards assigning quality tag for ranking purposes and due to this changes, certain sites those used to get top ranking just for the sake of their size and popularity have seen the dropdown. I don’t know to what extent I’m right. Just feel like that.

I’ve a similar post on Panda issue in my blog http://www.suvaance.com/search-engine-optimization-2014-part-learning-panda-updates-2013/. If you could have a look and give your valuable suggestion, it’ll be a great help for me. Thanks in advance.

By: Ammon Johns

Ammon Johns — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:08:48 +0000

That’s fantastic to know, Paula, so thank you, and thanks to your readers. Our regular ISOOSI Tuesday chats have been incredibly fun to do, and we’ve been blessed with a lot of awesome guests. I was saying to Virginia Nussey on G+ that its sometimes hard not to feel almost guilty about the hangouts – as if anything that much fun can’t possibly be real work and I must be goofing around. :)

By: Paula Allen

Paula Allen — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:16:21 +0000

In reply to Ammon Johns. Ammon Johns: We were happy to extract and share the many actionable tips you discussed. As a side note, the ISOOSI Tuesday Chat was the top-rated Google+ Hangout our readers recommended we attend when our managing editor, Virginia Nussey, recently took a poll. We were not disappointed! The chat covered a ton of practical, excellent information.