Google’s John Mueller mentioned it’s a large deal in case your most necessary web page or pages are horrible however not such a giant deal in case your much less necessary pages are horrible. So if your property web page is horrible, that’s actually not good. But when your archived orphaned pages usually are not good, that’s not such a giant deal for Google web optimization or rating functions.
John mentioned on Mastodon “if a website’s most necessary web page (say homepage) is “horrible” (within the sense of any algorithm), that is a reasonably large deal. If the identical website has a random archived web page that is “horrible,” no large deal.”
The query was from Robb Watts, and his query did not precisely ask this; it was extra concerning the share of unhealthy pages, however here’s what he mentioned:
I’d learn that the place a site is id’d as having a level of unhelpful content material that it could pull down the efficiency of the area as a complete. Is there any type of scale right here? Eg area has x% poor content material and y% nice, then potential to rank impression == normal place – z ?
Additionally if poor vs good content material % ratio ( 5p/95g vs 60p/40g) then is rating impression aligned to poor v good % ratios?
Is there something you may share?
John responded:
Nuance + character-limit = laborious :). Here is an instance: if a website’s most necessary web page (say homepage) is “horrible” (within the sense of any algorithm), that is a reasonably large deal. If the identical website has a random archived web page that is “horrible”, no large deal.
There isn’t any absolute “page-percentage” quantity for this, I might see it extra as “what would the avg person suppose after they went via / noticed your website”.
John later added once more, “It is actually not a matter of variety of pages or share of pages on a website, since these are such arbitrary metrics. It is actually extra concerning the greater image for the location.”
So yea, if the most effective stuff in your website is de facto, actually unhealthy, then that could be a non-starter.
Discussion board dialogue at Mastodon.
