SCOOP (timestamped 09:14): Deindexed site claws back 70% of traffic by deleting pages

SCOOP (timestamped 09:14): Deindexed site claws back 70% of traffic by deleting pages
A coupon aggregator hit by a March helpful-content sweep lost roughly 80% of organic clicks overnight. Recovery play, per the team: they pruned 41,000 thin auto-generated 'CODE for BRAND' pages down to 6,200 hand-checked ones over six weeks. Within two crawl cycles, surviving pages recovered ~70% of pre-drop traffic.
Why it matters: index bloat was the signal, not the cause. Cutting dead weight let the good pages breathe.
Sources say the cut pages averaged 12 monthly visits each — pure crawl-budget drain. Developing as Google reprocesses the slimmed sitemap...