Google: Tons Of SEOs & Sites Produce Terrible Content Not Worth Indexing

Aug 17, 2022 - 7:41 am 7 by

Google Scary Clown

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that "lots of SEOs & sites produce terrible content that's not worth indexing," when someone was complaining his content was not indexed. "Just because it exists doesn't mean it's useful to users," he added.

It is really hard for SEOs and/or site owners to believe their content is not terrible. Heck, some or maybe a lot of the content I produce is borderline terrible. But maybe, just maybe, a benchmark for if your content is not terrible is if Google spends the time to index that content.

Obviously, it should work the other way around. You should produce content that you know is quality, that is not terrible. Then Google will figure it out and index it. But at the same time, if your content is not being indexed, or some of it is not being indexed, and it is not a technical issue, then Google thinks the content is not worthy of being indexed.

If your content is not indexed, does it make your content "terrible"? I am not sure I'd go that far. But it does not meet the quality thresholds for Google to index the content.

Here is John's tweet in context here:

Oh, the image is not super relevant to this story but I did look for a terrible image and this came up and I felt it was too cool not to use, so hence this scary clown image...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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