How To Find The "Low Quality" Pages Of A Blog ?

by divatz
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Hi guys,

Like most of you know already, since Panda hit Google started to penalize blogs that have so-called "low quality" pages.

It's also said that if you get rid of those pages (404) or redirect them to high quality pages (301 redirect) you can get rid of big G's penalty.

My question to you is: how do you find out if your WP blog has such pages. Is there a 100% proof technique not based on "guessing" ?

Thanks,

PS: I know about the method that implies getting rid of those pages with high bounce rate, low traffic or time on site but i don't think that said method is accurate enough.
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  • Profile picture of the author tylerherman
    Do you even know if you are getting penalized? I wouldn't delete pages ever.

    You can have Google not index them with a no-index meta tag.

    You can't really find just the "low quality pages" it is your site as a whole that is low quality. You either have good content or you don't.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    First, are you sure it was a Panda? Did the traffic drop coincide with a known Panda refresh or update?

    If it is indeed Panda, Start by looking at your Analytics and Webmaster Tools.

    Remove the pages that have received NO traffic in the last 6 - 12 months. Instead of removing them, you could also just mark them for improvement.

    Once you do that, you move on to beefing up thin pages with more content - either by adding more or consolidating existing pages that would go well together.

    Other thin pages such as member profiles, tag pages, etc should be no-indexed.

    Next go back to WMT, and fix any errors they report.
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    • Profile picture of the author divatz
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      First, are you sure it was a Panda? Did the traffic drop coincide with a known Panda refresh or update?

      If it is indeed Panda, Start by looking at your Analytics and Webmaster Tools.

      Remove the pages that have received NO traffic in the last 6 - 12 months. Instead of removing them, you could also just mark them for improvement.

      Once you do that, you move on to beefing up thin pages with more content - either by adding more or consolidating existing pages that would go well together.

      Other thin pages such as member profiles, tag pages, etc should be no-indexed.

      Next go back to WMT, and fix any errors they report.
      Hi retsek and thanks for your reply,

      Yes my website took quite a hit once Panda hit and it didn't get any better with the subsequent releases.

      The thing is that my WP blog is 90% centered on gadget related NEWS (with the rest being centered mainly on overviews and comparisons) so i don't think i can actually improve most of the pages.

      I was thinking of taking old news (like leaks and stuff from before a certain device hits the market) and simply redirect them to the Overview page of a certain gadget. Would this be a good move ?
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