I am recovering from an hcu penalty should i rewrite flagged content or just prune it entirely?
managing a small network of niche affiliate blogs and our search traffic completely tanked after the last major core rollout. i hired a team of freelance writers last summer to help scale production, and while copyscape showed zero direct plagiarism, the structural flow of the articles feels completely robotic in hindsight. it is clear they were heavily relying on automated tools to hit their word count targets.
i am trying to systematically clean up the index without completely deleting valid pages, so i am using the semantic analyzer at Lynote AI to audit the library. it flags programmatic sentence structures and heavily spun paragraphs across thousands of words so i can identify exactly which sections are dragging down our domain authority. for those who successfully recovered from content penalties, did you find it better to entirely rewrite the flagged sections or just prune the low performing URLs completely?