How to fix thin content on Adobe Commerce (Magento)

Steps for Adobe Commerce (Magento)

1. Product pages: Admin → Catalog → Products → [select product] → 'Content' tab → expand 'Description' and write full content in the WYSIWYG editor. 'Short Description' appears near the price; 'Description' appears in the Details tab.
2. Category pages: Admin → Catalog → Categories → [select category] → 'Content' tab → add text to the 'Description' field and optionally a CMS Block for richer content.
3. For layered navigation (filter) pages generating thin URLs, go to Admin → Stores → Configuration → Catalog → Search Engine Optimization and set 'Use Categories Path for Product URLs' and canonical URL settings to consolidate duplicates. Also set layered navigation pages to noindex via the same SEO configuration panel or a third-party SEO extension.

What is thin content?

Thin content means a page has very little text — typically fewer than 300 words — so it gives visitors (and search engines) almost nothing to read or evaluate. This commonly happens on product pages with only a one-line description, empty or near-empty category pages, auto-generated tag or filter pages, and landing pages built purely around images. It is not just about word count: even a 50-word page can be valuable if it perfectly answers a narrow question, but in practice pages this short usually lack the depth Google needs to understand what is being sold and why a shopper should buy it.

Google's quality guidelines explicitly reward pages that demonstrate expertise and serve the user's intent — short, sparse pages signal the opposite. Thin product or category pages are frequently filtered out of competitive search results, meaning you lose the organic traffic and the revenue those rankings would have delivered. Shoppers who do land on a page with almost no description have less information to make a purchase decision, which hurts conversion rates and increases returns. In aggregate, a site with many thin pages can receive a site-wide quality downgrade that suppresses rankings across all pages, not just the thin ones.

See the complete Thin content guide for every platform and the full background.