Google’s John Mueller often doesn’t give direct advice that contains hard messages. But in a Google Webmaster Help thread John decided to give the hard truth to one webmaster producing low quality content. In fact, John recommended that he “take the site down, and start over fresh.”

He told the webmaster that the content on the site is “a bit questionable” and then goes on to say the content appears to be “spun / rewritten from other websites.” He said that type of content is “spam and against our webmaster guidelines.” That is when he told the webmaster he should take the site down and start over.

Here is the full message from John Mueller:

If you want to check out the site in question, go to the thread.

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.