ComboStrap Quality - Low Quality Page

Low quality page are pages that have a really poor added value for readers.

This kind of page have this characteristics:

• thin content - the number of words is really low
• no internal link - they don't link to other page
• no internal backlink - no other page links back to them
• few edits - the content of the page has not been improved

Since version 1.11

They have a real negative impact on your SEO score and should be avoid at all cost. ComboStrap has even developed a low quality page protection feature because you can get badly impacted by them.

For more information, see ComboStrap Quality - Low Quality Page Protection (LQPP)

The definition of what a low quality page is, is an ongoing process and a really large and subjective SEO subject.

For ComboStrap, a low quality page is a page that does not pass the mandatory quality rules.

You can query them with the following SQL.

select
	id,
	json_extract(analytics,'$.quality.failed_mandatory_rules') as failed_rules,
	json_extract(analytics,'$.statistics.words_count') as words,
	json_extract(analytics,'$.statistics.internal_links_count') as internal_links,
	json_extract(analytics,'$.statistics.internal_backlinks_count') as internal_backlinks
from
	pages
where
json_extract(analytics, '$.quality.low') = true

Below are some analytical SQL that you can use to get more insight

• To get your Low quality page rate, you can query the database with the below statement:

select
    json_extract(analytics, '$.quality.low') as low,
    count(*)
from
   pages
group by
   low

If one of the mandatory rules does not pass, the page will be considered a low quality page.

You can set mandatory rules in the mandatoryQualityRules configuration.

The default values are:

• words_min,
• internal_backlinks_min,
• internal_links_min

You can set manually the low quality indicator to false in the frontmatter

Example:

{
    "low_quality_page":"false"
}