- which host too much thin content
and
- that content is totally different from the site's primary topic
So far I have identified few domains which are impacted and Google has removed parts of those from their search results.
And there is this one publication, GeeksforGeeks, their whole domain is removed from Google Search because of manual action. Per numbers from Semrush, GeeksforGeeks gets almost 70 million monthly traffic from Google Search BUT now it's gone totally.
Their primary topic is programming tutorials but over last year they have gone too broad and were writing about topics which aren't related to programming at all.
On another note ☝️
Over the years SEO Community has been complaining to Google about this practice being leveraged by large publishers and they trying to rank for everything with thin content, this has specifically been a big challenge for SEOs working with SMBs.
But now it seems like Google is taking action for hosting too much of thin content.
(below is a screenshot of GeeksforGeeks complaining about being removed from Google Search on X)
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