How to Identify Thin Content with Copilot
Find thin content pages in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Improve content quality in code.
Tool
Copilot detects thin content pages and links them to the templates that generate them. If tag pages or category pages are consistently thin, you can fix the template in your IDE to pull in more related content, add descriptions, or improve the page layout at the source level.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Site Crawler tool:
- Ask: "Crawl mysite.com and find thin content pages"
- Review pages with low word counts
- Ask Copilot to add noindex tags to pages that should not be indexed
- Expand or redirect thin pages as needed
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Site Crawler tool
Find thin content pages on mysite.com and add noindex meta tags to the ones that should not be in search results.
Tips
- Copilot can add noindex meta tags or robots directives to thin pages
- Great for identifying auto-generated pages that need content templates
- Use to find placeholder pages in development that should not ship empty