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Hello,
I launched a niche website. A competitor's site has millions of pieces of content indexed. Although search volumes are low, in this sector, the potential for traffic increases as the number of pieces of content increases.
The sector is a website based on product information. I analyzed the data from the competitor's approximately 1.5 million pieces of content that receive traffic.
Using complete automation, I published 10 pieces of content daily and produced over 300 pieces of content. However, after 3 months, all pages on the site were removed from the index. Despite this, I did not receive any manual action or penalty notification.
According to Google Analytics data, the time users spent on the site was also quite good.
I thought there would have been a serious revenue potential in terms of Adsense if the content hadn't been removed from the index.
I still believe the site has high potential. However, I couldn't figure out the reason for this problem and eventually closed the site completely. I've been thinking about this for about 1.5 months.
I'm curious about your opinions and comments on this matter.
 
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This is not manual, this is algorithmic hit.

Fixed, robotic automation like that is one of the main giveaways of programatic/AI site.

Seems like it is new as well. Another mismatch with large content volumes.
 
I've seen sites lose most of their indexed pages without receiving any manual action.
google sometimes just stops retaining pages it doesn't consider valuable enough.
 
yasin.soylemez said:
Hello,
I launched a niche website. A competitor's site has millions of pieces of content indexed. Although search volumes are low, in this sector, the potential for traffic increases as the number of pieces of content increases.
The sector is a website based on product information. I analyzed the data from the competitor's approximately 1.5 million pieces of content that receive traffic.
Using complete automation, I published 10 pieces of content daily and produced over 300 pieces of content. However, after 3 months, all pages on the site were removed from the index. Despite this, I did not receive any manual action or penalty notification.
According to Google Analytics data, the time users spent on the site was also quite good.
I thought there would have been a serious revenue potential in terms of Adsense if the content hadn't been removed from the index.
I still believe the site has high potential. However, I couldn't figure out the reason for this problem and eventually closed the site completely. I've been thinking about this for about 1.5 months.
I'm curious about your opinions and comments on this matter.
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Yeah automation is probably making your website hit, because Google and other search engines nowadays "view" AI content as generic and therefore they do not keep it ranked. I believe you should humanize your content and after that you will jump back to your previous rank or even go a bit higher.
 
I think publishing 10 pages/day wasn't the problem. The bigger issue was likely trying to replicate a large database site without first establishing authority. Google deindexed it because it didn't offer anything unique. 1 exceptional page will outperform 10 average programmatic pages on a new domain.
 
if starting fresh, i’d keep it simple and focused.
first, get a few relevant contextual links from sites in your niche. these usually move rankings faster than random links. then add some niche edits on existing pages that already have traffic. those tend to pass value quickly. avoid blasting profiles or web 2.0s. they rarely move anything now. the key is fewer, stronger links plus some diversified backlinks over time. quality + relevance beats volume if you want faster results.
 
That’s just a classic algorithmic filter for thin content, which is why you didn't see a manual action notice, just because a big site gets away with millions of pages doesn't mean a fresh domain can they have the authority that you're still missing. You need more original data or a much stronger link profile to keep that much automated content in the index.
 
my guess is google decided the site added no unique value, not that it violated a rule. people look for penalties when often it's just quality thresholds. competitor with 1.5m pages probably built trust over years. a new site publishing hundreds of highly similar product pages has to clear a much higher bar.
 
My first guess would be that the issue wasn't the number of pages but the overall perceived value of the content.

A competitor with 1.5 million indexed pages may have built trust, backlinks, brand signals, user engagement, and historical authority over many years. Simply reproducing a similar model on a new site doesn't always lead to the same outcome.

The fact that you didn't receive a manual action suggests this may have been an algorithmic quality assessment rather than a penalty. Google can decide that a large portion of a site's pages don't provide enough unique value and gradually remove them from the index.
 
sounds like a classic case where scale didn't equal trust. good user metrics like time on page don't always save it if the system decides the content doesn't add unique value compared to what’s already indexed elsewhere
 
Most likely an algorithmic hit since the website is new. Keep GSC in sight and follow closely for the next month or two, don't do anything shady in terms of content or backlink building, otherwise you risk getting penalized quite fast.
 
I think the issue might be that you tried to do too much in too short a period. Am also guessing the 10 articles per day were AI generated, and probably not proofread. You could at least try to pass the articles through a humanizer or get someone in the market section to write the articles for you. Personally i have suffered adsense rejection with huge monthly visits due to low quality content that I AI generated and pasted
 
Google simply won't notify you if your websites have been deindexed or explain the reason, unless it's a purely technical issue with your website. Posting so many automated articles likely resulted in the uploading of duplicate or low-value content, and Google may decide not to display it or penalize the domain :c
 
It sounds more like a quality problem, not really a penalty. Google may have indexed your pages at first, then later pulled them back because the content was too similar, too automated, or the site did not have enough authority and enough backlinks. Since there wasnt a manual action mentioned, it was probably an algorithmic call rather than a penalty, you know.
 
I have seen websites lose a significant portion of their indexed pages without ever being subject to any manual actions.
 
Most likely issue was thin/automated content quality signals. Even without manual action, Google can deindex if pages add low unique value. Focus on original, useful content + strong internal linking.
 
yasin.soylemez said:
Hello,
I launched a niche website. A competitor's site has millions of pieces of content indexed. Although search volumes are low, in this sector, the potential for traffic increases as the number of pieces of content increases.
The sector is a website based on product information. I analyzed the data from the competitor's approximately 1.5 million pieces of content that receive traffic.
Using complete automation, I published 10 pieces of content daily and produced over 300 pieces of content. However, after 3 months, all pages on the site were removed from the index. Despite this, I did not receive any manual action or penalty notification.
According to Google Analytics data, the time users spent on the site was also quite good.
I thought there would have been a serious revenue potential in terms of Adsense if the content hadn't been removed from the index.
I still believe the site has high potential. However, I couldn't figure out the reason for this problem and eventually closed the site completely. I've been thinking about this for about 1.5 months.
I'm curious about your opinions and comments on this matter.
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Hey Brother,

Yes, it has become common issue for a lot of content creating websites. It happens automatically with their new detection bots.

I would suggest to not give up, keep posting until another google official update arrives, and it might bounce back your website, like nothing happened.
 
If thousands of pages are highly similar of lack of authority unique signals, google may deindex them witout issuing manual penalty and notification.

Building topical authority and quality backlinks with unique, fresh , good content is actual key to long term indexing.
 
It sounds like Google may have viewed the site as being primarily auto generated without enough unique value, even if there wasn't a manual penalty. I'd focus on improving content quality, adding original insights or data and publishing more gradually before scaling again. A few hundred pages are enough to test quality signals before expanding to millions.
 
All the responses are right. Just keep adding a unique information.
 
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