thin content penalty on multiple sites

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I have recently had the thin content penalty which has been applied to all my sites within my webmaster tools account. All within the same niche.

I've heard that you can't operate multiple sites focusing on the same market/customers?

Then I read this https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...-multiple.html

Has anyone had experience with this? Whats the solution?
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    The solution is to stop building thin sites.

    I would recommend building out ONE site, do it properly.

    Are you able to consolidate all of the content to one property?
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  • Profile picture of the author seoguy56
    The content on the other sites is not worth consolidating.

    Thats what I'm doing but I want to know if it's possible to build out the others and submit those. Maybe if they each focus on a particular area of the market?
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by seoguy56 View Post

      I've heard that you can't operate multiple sites focusing on the same market/customers?
      I've got no idea why that'd be true. In fact many companies openly operate secondary sites that are in the exact same niche than their money site. If you're talking about shady link schemes and trying to fool Google... well, that's completely different.

      Thin content is thin content. As Mr. Romaine pointed out the solution is pretty obvious. And if the topics are close enough I'd also concentrate on just one site.
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      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    As Romaine pointed out, don't build thin sites.

    The problem is not having multiple sites, it's having thin sites.

    You can have a site about exercising, diet pills, exercise equipment and have it be a thin site or not.

    You can have a site about exercising, a site about losing weight, a site about exercise equipment and all 3 could be great sites. Or thin sites.

    And it has nothing to do with how many pages and how much content you have but with the quality of the content and overlap.

    If you had some good info on each and the info does not overlap, you're doing fine.

    Neil Patel owns kissmetrics and quicksprout... and Google's not bugging him about thin content. For instance.

    Originally Posted by seoguy56 View Post

    I have recently had the thin content penalty which has been applied to all my sites within my webmaster tools account. All within the same niche.

    I've heard that you can't operate multiple sites focusing on the same market/customers?

    Then I read this https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...-multiple.html

    Has anyone had experience with this? Whats the solution?
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  • Profile picture of the author mkii
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    Originally Posted by seoguy56 View Post

    I have recently had the thin content penalty which has been applied to all my sites within my webmaster tools account. All within the same niche.

    I've heard that you can't operate multiple sites focusing on the same market/customers?

    Then I read this https://webmasters.googleblog.com/20...-multiple.html

    Has anyone had experience with this? Whats the solution?
    Do you mind linking to one of the sites? We might be able to help. I really can't help you out if I have no idea what the problem is. TAP is caused by a few things.
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