How to fix thin content
SEO1 min readFixes check word-count-thin
Pages with only a few dozen words rarely rank and often get flagged as low quality. 300+ words of useful text is the usual floor.
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What a passing site looks like
- Word count: passeswarning · −2 ptseffort L
Word count
Why it matters. Pages with very little text give search engines almost nothing to rank and visitors little reason to stay. Google has no minimum word count, but a page meant to rank with under 300 words has usually left out what visitors came for.
How to fix it.
- Add text that answers what a visitor came for; for a product, that is the details, sizing and delivery; for a service, what happens and what it costs.
- Keep it in real HTML text, not inside images or loaded only by JavaScript.