Thin Content
Thin content is a page with too little substance to satisfy the query it targets.
In detail
Length is a symptom, not the definition. A short page that answers a question completely is fine; a long page repeating the obvious is not.
Thin pages usually appear at scale — templated location pages, tag archives, near-duplicate variations.
Example
A 180-word resources page listing three links with no explanation of any of them.
Why it matters
Thin pages rarely rank, and in volume they dilute how a site's quality is assessed.
Common mistakes
- Publishing category or tag pages with almost no content.
- Expanding pages with filler instead of substance.
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