Did slowing down publishing ever actually recover a penalized site?

Did slowing down publishing ever actually recover a penalized site?

Q: I scaled to 15 posts/week and traffic tanked. Coincidence?

A: Short answer: probably not a coincidence — and one site reversed it by cutting. Longer answer: a site ramped from 4 to 15 AI-assisted posts a week and lost 45 percent of traffic over two updates — classic "scaled content" signal. The fix was counterintuitive: they STOPPED publishing for 8 weeks, deleted 220 of the weakest mass-produced posts, and rebuilt 40 into genuinely useful, human-edited pieces. Output dropped to 2 careful posts a week. Six months and one core update later, traffic was back to 110 percent of the pre-crash peak. Sometimes the growth move is subtraction. Volume without quality is a liability, not an asset.

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