300,000 webpages and no organic traffic?????

Maybe somone can shed some light on this.

I have a classified website which has 300k ads scraped from the brands fb group, over half of these ads would no longer exist on fb.

Yet there is next to no organic traffic.

Is there a possible way to conduct a SEO audit on the website? or has it been blacklisted or something?

The site is built on the OSCLASS platform

you can use Screaming Frog, WebCEO or any other of the dozens pieces of software and services to do the audit. But why classifieds?? I've not seen one of these sites ranking in over a decade, I doubt you will get organic traffic (by organic I assume you mean google)

How about indexation?

Creating thousands of pages does not guarantee traffic. Otherwise people would just create 50 such websites with scraped pages and leave it to generate passive income every month.

Check the site's index status first, then do proper SEO audit to know if there are any technical issues

It is surely a penalty on the website.

Just because you have a tremendous amount of pages doesn't mean you will get traffic from Google.

If you create pages targeting stuff that nobody searches for, you shouldn't expect much results.

Similarly, if you are scraping stuff that is already easily found on Google and you're not adding any new value to the content, don't expect much results either.

There are just so many things that go into the traffic mix in addition to content volume.

While content volume is important, at the end of the day, each page you put up on your website will be compared to competing sites.

So it's really important to focus more on quality instead of quantity.

There are lots of people who believe in auto scraping their way to high traffic.

To some extent, that's still doable, but 300,000 pages is not enough.

I mean if you want to go that route, you need to look at millions of pages.

That's how that game is played.

And also, there's a very high chance of getting banned so you better have tons of disposable domains to throw at that project.

But if you are like most of us, looking to maximize your return on effort, you might want to prioritize quality over quantity.

wheelerdealer said:

Maybe somone can shed some light on this.

I have a classified website which has 300k ads scraped from the brands fb group, over half of these ads would no longer exist on fb.

Yet there is next to no organic traffic.

Is there a possible way to conduct a SEO audit on the website? or has it been blacklisted or something?

The site is built on the OSCLASS platform

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It sounds like you're not really focused on providing a decent UX and Google is treating your site as such.

100% penalty. If you are not able to get traffic with few hundred pages, do not waste time uploading more content on the site.