What is thin content?
- Pages on a site with very little text and/or without rich media.
- Pages that serve little to no value to the end-user.
Why does having thin content pages matter?
- Creates a bad user experience and lowers your site’s quality score.
- They take longer to index or don’t index at all.
- Even if they do index, they have very little value and rank poorly.
How can I check for thin content pages?
- Open Screaming Frog and enter the domain.
- Scroll over to the right to find “Word Count” and look for pages with less than 300 words (outside of trivial pages ie. contact, about).
- Consider no-indexing these low-value pages.