How can I find which are the weak pages pulling me down?

by Kikos
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Hi, from my website's ~700 articles a number of them are very good articles which bring in good compliments and Adsense income and traffic and a number of them I imagine are not good enough so they must be dragging down my website as a whole so how do I find which articles are not good enough so I can edit them, improve things, add more interesting content, more pictures, etc.

The reason I think the above is because my website was doing great before October update of Google and after it crashed. Now I am recovering it still slowly by fixing crawl and other website errors, better internal links, building some backlinks by publishing articles on other blogs, but it is not where it was still, so I must have some bad content I assume as I never did any bad quality things like lame mass links, etc. and I remember I read or saw somewhere from Google saying that any bad/wrong/error pages will bring down the whole website's performance, which does make logical sense.

So how do I find those bad pages? the pages which Google might consider as bad quality?

Thank you!

P.S. I originally thought this would be pages which get no traffic, but when I took the list of no traffic pages from Analytics they included some great articles, which probably get no traffic due to very high competition on those topics and not because they are bad pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kikos
    just to check again if anyone might have any advice?
    thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author vickyk
    Hi..
    If this is really possible than please i also want to know about this method because if some weak page pulling our webpage down than how we can achieve our goal. so please help me out also..
    Thank's
    Rank Builder
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  • Profile picture of the author Backlinko
    You're probably a Google Penguin victim.

    It's really, REALLY hard to write700 pages of awesome, original content.

    There's no quick and easy way to recover from Penguin.

    You need to be honest with yourself: how many of those pages repeat information or don't bring anything new to the table? You may need to prune pages that do that.

    Here's a good recovery case study: Google Panda 3.6 Recovery Story. Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kikos
      Hi Backlinko, thanks for replying.

      Well I don't know about super awesome but my small team is writing original content and I am not saying they do not make mistakes - I am asking that now I have 700 and I can not go and read all 700 one by one - that's far too much time - is there any kind of a way / a variable / a statistic which can indicate to me which of those pages might be less quality so I can take action against those pages / articles?

      Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    If your pages have correct spelling and grammar then they are good..
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  • Profile picture of the author jxam69
    A good way to find which pages might have problems is to see which ones get a high level of fast bounce rates from Google entrances.

    The standard bounce rate in Analytics is no good for this purpose because it counts all bounces regardless of time on page - visitors count as bounced if they read 1 page for 15 minutes then click the back button.

    However you can get the data you need to make this assessment - check out Tracking Adjusted Bounce Rate In Google Analytics - Analytics Blog
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  • Profile picture of the author wlasikiewicz
    You need to check your Analytics
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  • Profile picture of the author Kikos
    thank you everyone
    I will go study the adjusted bounce rates / time on page
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