I already wrote a complete article on How To Recover From Google Panda Effect,this article is a part of same series to explain “What is low quality content?“.After a series of Google Panda Updates,now everyone is aware of the importance of high quality content.Previously webmasters used to think more the number of pages gets indexed in Google then more is the traffic but now things have changed.Even few low quality articles can lead to penalty like “One single apple spoiling the whole bunch“.
How to Identify Low Quality Content?
There is a big question in every webmaster mind “What low quality/thin content actually means?“.
Well if you are here with the same question then I am going to clear your doubt in this article.
1.Content with Very Few Words:
Even though most of them feel that the number of words of article doesn’t matter it is wise to maintain a 500 words article.Sometimes you may not prolong a article to 500 words in such cases keep the article short and concise but get more comments on your post.All the words in the comments will be treated as content of the article.Accept only those comments which adds value to your blog.Spammy comments can harm the blog very badly.So if you write a article with 200 words and get few comments which comprise of 300 words then 200+300=500.This will be the word count of the article which is a decent length.
2.Outdated Articles:
Sometimes we may write articles related to Technology updates.These articles related to updates may boost your traffic instantly but once when the update is outdated the article will remain as a scrap in your blog or website.You have to identify such articles and remove them immediately.
3.Articles with no Traffic at all:
There will be many articles on your website which don’t get traffic at all or gets traffic very barely thereby adding no value to your website.Such articles should either be rewritten ,interlinked from the posts for which you get good traffic or must be removed.
4.Duplicate Titles
Duplicate Titles and Meta Descriptions must be avoided at any cost.Quite often an information may be outdated and you may come up with a new information on the same title.In such cases you should follow either of following cases.
- Re-write the previous article with latest information(I don’t recommend this because Google takes some time to re crawl an already crawled content and modify it in search results thereby you loose alot of traffic for a period of time).
- Remove the previous article then write a new article.After that redirect the previous article url to the new article[Highly Recommended].
- Write the new article with different keywords.For example if you already wrote a article on “Google Panda Update 20” and this time you are writing a article on “Google Panda Update 21” then change the title and write it as “Google Rolled Out a New Panda Update 21” to show a diversification between the both titles.
5. Duplicate Meta Descriptions:
This is also same as the above explained scenario.To find out if your site has Duplicate Meta Description follow the below steps.
- Go to Google Webmaster Tool.
- Choose Optimization on the left coloumn.
- Then Go to Html Improvements.
- There you can find the number of duplicate Meta Descriptions on your website.
6.Achieve Pages:
Sometimes Google indexed the achieve pages of a blog/website thereby creating low quality content without your notice.To check the indexed pages in Google,go to google.com then type site:yoursite.com(Replace yoursite.com with your website address).
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