How I kept 62 of 80 programmatic pages alive while hiding them from Google

Short summary

Author hides thin content from Google while keeping pages live to preserve inbound links. Uses a deterministic curation gate based on 4+ alternatives, 1000+ GitHub stars, and 80+ character intros, applied at build time. Applies noindex, sitemap exclusion, and navigation filtering automatically—pages improve silently as nightly ETL runs enhance content.

• •Keeps thin pages live with noindex instead of 404s to preserve external links
• •Curation gate uses three objective thresholds: 4+ alternatives, 1000+ GitHub stars, 80+ char intro
• •Implementation: type-only imports avoid bundling DB dependencies; thresholds apply across noindex tags, sitemap, RSS, and navigation

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