What is a Thin Content?
Most businesses are aware
that content is one of the best ways of driving interest, appealing to
shoppers, and even boosting search engine performances. When we talk of
thin content, we mean content that has little or no value to the clients. This
means that the content is automatically generated, unhelpful affiliate content,
or content that has been stolen from other websites.
Below are ways how to
identify pages with thin content. But besides having thin content it is also
allowed for some pages to be light on content know the difference.
1. Use web Crawlers to help
you identify thin content
2. Your sites use content from
another website
3. Your website has affiliate
pages
4. Having a lot of short pages
on your site
5. Tools for identifying fake
Content
6. Poor Spelling and grammar
1. Use web Crawlers to help
you identify content
Instead of manually going
through every page and checking word count, you are in a good position of using
a web crawler to quickly identify which pages need to have more content. One
can use screaming frog, this is a software popular within the SEO community.
While using the scramble
frog, you copy and paste your domain name into the crawler then click start for
you to run a crawl and when you click the export button this will export an
excel file of the data. You will see a lot of columns that you won’t need, with
this, one needs to be free to delete what is not important. Just focus on these
columns:
· Content
· Status code
· Address
· Indexability
· Word count
For ease of use, you need
to filter the pages and remain with the relevant ones. Sort by word count in
ascending order to easily view which pages contain thin content. All these will
help you identify thin content.
2. Your site uses content from another website
If you are always scraping
content from other websites or copying and pasting directly as it is then your
site won’t have a chance of being ranked well in search engines. The best thing
with the search engines is that they can tell you which pages come first if
there are pages that may be talking about the same thing. This is referred to
as thin content.
To avoid the story of thin
content always use your own content and make sure they don’t appear in any
other sports online. Because it’s a very simple and effective way to offer
quality information.
3. Your websites have affiliate pages
Affiliate links and pages
on their own are not bad, but one needs to be more careful because they can
disappoint your site if they don’t contain useful content to your target
audience. You need to be careful of the links because some affiliate pages have
copied content with links from a low-quality website and this can destroy
your search engines results pages.
4. Having a lot of short pages on your site
With this, I
mean using enough words in your writings. Websites made of fewer words indicate
a website with thin content because most content will not be displayed on the
pages or rather there will not be enough information for your readers.
It is ok for some pages to
contain long content and some short but ensure you hit the target of words in
each and every page considering our business or the industry that you major in.
5. Tools for Identifying fake content
Making good use of the crawler scan as a good tool to
identify duplicate content on your website is more important
because it will make you identify lots of things like identifying pages with
repeated text and as well as highlighting the fake text with good color cording
making you to easily visualize the content issues.
6. Poor Spelling and Grammar
Not everyone was born
to be so good and fluent in grammar writing, but you can work with professional editors to help us improve
in grammar to avoid coming up with thin content. Or one can always opt
for a comprehensive grammar tool like Grammarly.
One needs to know that a
page full of misspelled words and any other grammatical mistakes is a bad
signal to one reading your content and with this, anyone can judge you for not
being careful while writing and with all these not many people will stick to
your site to check. Once google comes across you have a high bounce rate,
little time on the page, and few people on your site they will degrade you and
move you down in the search ranks.
Summary
The above descriptions
describe to us some of the ways to identify thin content and if you work with
them, you will be in a good position to identify how to make your content
great. More so people who use many numbers of pages will be in a good position to
fix their problems. Make good use of the tips you have to sort the issues of
thin content.
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