#Thin content

Thin content describes pages that give visitors little or no real value, such as near-empty pages, auto-generated archives, placeholder pages and text copied from elsewhere. It is judged by usefulness rather than by word count, since a short page that fully answers a simple question is not thin. Large numbers of thin pages can weaken how search engines see a site and waste crawling on large websites. The usual fixes are to improve a page with real substance, merge it into a stronger page, keep it out of the index or remove it. The articles under this tag explain how to find thin pages across a site and choose the right fix for each.