{"slug": "trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google", "title": "Trying to recover from thin content penalty from Google", "summary": "College students launched anitroves.com in early 2026 with thousands of anime and manga pages, but Google penalized the site for thin content, de-indexing all pages except the main page after initial traffic of 30,000 impressions dropped to hundreds. The founders removed the problematic pages and are seeking recovery advice from experts.", "body_md": "We just launched anitroves.com early this 2026 and had added thousands of Anime and Manga pages with basic wiki informations along with our Characters roleplays, Otaku and AniPick AI.\n\nWe thought those pages would be great to rank for multiple keywords and get initial traffic but after a few weeks google analyzed and penaltized our site for thin content though it didn't showed any issues in manual actions but it did de-indexed whole site and then only remained our main page, we got more than 30,000 impressions within 2 weeks which dropped to a few hundreds.\n\nAs we are only college students with no real developer or experience but passion, now we have removed all those thousands of pages and have kept only Anime characters Roleplay chats along with Otaku AI. AniPick AI and other basic features.\n\nWe are hoping for a recovery but we need advice from real experts.\n\nIt would be great if you HNs can take a moment to analyze my website and give us a piece of advice.\n\nhttps://anitroves.com\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678398](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678398)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 2", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678398", "published_at": "2026-06-25 19:53:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 20:14:46.659203+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Google", "anitroves.com", "AniPick AI", "Otaku AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trying-to-recover-from-thin-content-penalty-from-google.jsonld"}}