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    • MTalhaImtiaz
      MTalhaImtiaz last edited by

      I am currently doing a site audit. The total number of pages on the website are around 400... 187 of them are image pages and coming up as 'zero' word count in Screaming Frog report.

      I needed to know if they will be considered 'thin' content by search engines? Should I include them as an issue?

      An answer would be most appreciated.

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      • RangeMarketing
        RangeMarketing @MTalhaImtiaz last edited by

        Hmm I wasn't able to view that example with the URL you provided. What is the domain name?

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        • MTalhaImtiaz
          MTalhaImtiaz @RangeMarketing last edited by

          Yes RangeMarketing... you are correct.

          Here is an example:

          http://www.sbbbb-hlddd/media/thumbnail/widget-portfolio-thumb-218x108/d4572a941ca5176857272255b54188e1/20130904_sbbbb-hlddd-298x150-new.jpg

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          • RangeMarketing
            RangeMarketing @MTalhaImtiaz last edited by

            Ohhhh my mistake, what you are describing sounds like image file locations rather than actual HTML pages, correct? Could you provide an example?

            Thanks.

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            • MTalhaImtiaz
              MTalhaImtiaz last edited by

              Hello guys,

              One more point has just come up. I did a Copyscape search for content plaigiarism on the website and found that some pages (example the company overview page) has exact same content on multiple Linkedin domains (examples... sa.linked, tr.linked, ae.linkedin...)

              does this matter?

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              • MTalhaImtiaz
                MTalhaImtiaz @RangeMarketing last edited by

                Hello there....

                Those 187 pages are image pages (or they may just be image files)... as in... nothing on the pages except an image only which is served on one of the site pages.

                It does not bring any value to the user and actually doesn't even appear in analytics.

                My gut feeling is that google would know this and will not take this as a negative signal. The images dont have a alt-attribute which I have noted and reported.

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                • TheZenAgency
                  TheZenAgency last edited by

                  Don't know how feasible it is but could you include some sort of content within the page? Perhaps an introduction to what the images are?

                  As im not sure what the website is im not sure if this would work.

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                  • RangeMarketing
                    RangeMarketing last edited by

                    Hi there!

                    187 does seem quite high but it really comes down to the purpose of the pages. For some sites it might work, for others it won't. What type of website is it?

                    When doing a site / content audit I think it's important to understand what sort of value each page brings the user. You should consider looking at any analytics data you have for those pages to make a better judgement.

                    For example, if you find that the pages have a high bounce rate you might consider restructuring the pages or repurposing the image content for other areas of the website.

                    Hope this gets you thinking! 🙂

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