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Hit by a Scaled Content Abuse Penalty—How Can I Recover My Website?

A site I’m working on appears to have been hit by Google’s Scaled Content Abuse policy. A large number of pages were created at scale, and after the penalty/action, organic visibility and indexed pages dropped significantly.
We’ve started reviewing the affected URLs, removing or improving low-value/thin content, consolidating overlapping pages, and strengthening the remaining content.
For those who have successfully recovered from a Scaled Content Abuse action:

  • What did you prioritize first?
  • Did you remove a large portion of the content or focus mainly on improving it?
  • How many days or weeks did it take for your website to start recovering?
  • How long did it take to see a significant recovery in organic traffic and rankings?
  • Did you submit a reconsideration request, or did Google recover the site algorithmically?
  • Were there any specific changes that made the biggest difference?

Would really appreciate insights from anyone who has gone through a similar recovery.

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u/Adorable-Ad5414 — 9 days ago
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Impressions are increasing, but clicks are not — anyone else seeing this?

I’ve been working on a client’s website for around 6 months. The site is getting a decent number of impressions in Search Console, but the clicks aren’t really increasing along with them.

I’ve checked the usual things — on-page SEO, technical SEO, indexing, titles, meta descriptions, etc. Nothing obvious seems to be wrong.

So I’m wondering if this is becoming more common because of the changes in Google search and the growth of AI Overviews / AI-generated results.

Are people seeing the same thing on their websites?

If your impressions are going up but CTR and clicks are staying low, what did you find was causing it?

Would be interested to hear some real experiences rather than just the usual “improve your titles and meta descriptions” advice.

u/Digi-Expo — 13 days ago
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crwawlstop as sitemap in robots.txt

A friend's website uses cloudflare and it created a robots.txt that only lists this as its sitemap - won't that prevent further crawling? (Its a wordpress / woocommerce site)

Sitemap: https://www.crawlstop.com/sitemap.xml
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u/IamZenweezil — 13 days ago