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Quick tip for HCU-hit sites

If your site is still being crawled by Google but stuck in “Crawled – currently not indexed,” try drastically reducing your indexed URLs by deleting (serve as 410) or noindexing low-value pages.

This can shrink your site’s footprint enough to trigger a reclassification.

Remember the Helpful Content Update applies a site-level classifier — not page-level. If your site was labeled "unhelpful," no individual page fix will matter until the overall classification changes.

The key sign of potential recovery? Google is still crawling your site, which means it's still on their radar.

Hope this helps someone who has been effected.

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