Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that fewer strong pages is often better than having many weak pages. John wrote "You can do a lot of things, but that doesn't make it a good strategy for all sites :). Often few strong pages > many weak ones."
Here is the tweet:
You can do a lot of things, but that doesn't make it a good strategy for all sites :). Often few strong pages > many weak ones.
— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) November 2, 2017
This isn't something new, Google has been saying this sort of message since after Panda launched several years ago.
The old days of SEO where you just made as many pages for long tail keywords does not work as well at all anymore.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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