Deleting spammy UGC comments recovered a forum's visibility
On the radar: a case where the problem wasn't the main content.
Confirmed
— Glenn Gabe — A community site demoted by a core update found the issue was 200,000+ low-quality user comments and signature spam diluting page quality. After bulk-removing and noindexing thin profile pages, visibility recovered ~45% over the following two updates.
Read this
— SEO Roundtable — Coverage of similar forum recoveries where pruning UGC, not editorial content, was the lever.
One to bookmark: Gabe's case is a reminder that 'helpful content' scoring weighs everything on the page, including the comments you forgot about.
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Deleting spammy UGC comments recovered a forum's visibility
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