What is thin content?

Its when a 3 year old can read it with no problem.

It's when people write a 100 word paragraph for a keyword and say "Why am I not ranking?"

dragonlube said:

Thin content - that has little or no value to the user.
Low-quality affiliate pages, or simply pages with very little or no content - thin content pages.
You can find it by using - Copyscape or google search operators
To fix – 1. need a basic understanding of what high quality and value enhancing content.
2. use unique data to provide user meaning.
3. purposeful content is the key factor.

Good luck

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As i have already posted here about thin content, here I found an ultimate article, which helps you more to come up with.
refer this article,
https://www.searchenginejournal.com...ter&mc_cid=b141216ef5&mc_eid=f4b725501c#close
This shows a clear route to identify and fix the thin content.

Regards
Dragonlube

if you read this, you can know a clear idea about thin content and how to find it
Thin Content - what is it and how to find it (seotesting.com)

less than 300 words consider as thin content.

Josh Saga said:

Anything less than 300 words is considered thin content.

Solution: Write more lol

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What about product pages?....for an article sure...but I never see product pages with more than a few hundred words at most and most of that is usually shit...reviews...disclaimers...their store hours...

Thin Content :

Thin content can be best described as useless content.
It has no value to the reader — it might even deceive the reader.
From Google's viewpoint, thin content is the lowest of low-quality.
It shows that the content took absolutely no effort to create; it might even be stolen from another content source .

How to find ?

1. Use a SEO crawler to find pages with the least word count.
2. Use a SEO crawler to find content that can potentially cause internal duplicate content issue.
3. Look at those backlinks.
4. Check if your content is being stolen.

How to Fix ?

1. Make sure your site looks legit.
2. Add more content & avoid similar titles.
3. Don't copy content.
4. Web design, formatting & ads.
5. Video, images, text, audio, etc.
6. Deindex/remove useless pages..

Thin content is which has low-value or doesn't possess any value.
Basically, the content you publish should carry value and add value in the search results page for your website.

Thin content mean content that has little or no value to the user. Google considers doorway pages, low-quality affiliate pages, or simply pages with very little or no content as thin content pages. But don’t fall into the trap of just producing loads of very similar content: non-original pages, pages with scraped and duplicate content, are considered thin content pages too.

Thin content is nothing but the quantity of the content word count is less in web page.
FYI, There is no word limit as per Google guidelines

Going through the literal term, content with too less words less than 500, less valuable content or filler contents are known as thin content.

Of course the content varies from one niche to another, but then the quality of the content also becomes very important.