Did unfinished text reach your public pages?
It searches for known filler text while excluding many cases where a page discusses it.
What Check Engine measures
The test reads indexable prose and snippet fields. It uses a literal marker list, with separate guards for comments, hidden text, quoted discussion, examples and redaction masks. Context checks use a 160-character window. Short holding-page wording, longer discussions and Latin filler have different guards. The snippet announcement case uses a 12-word limit, while the holding-page test uses 200 words. These are context rules, not a general quality score. For example, short announcement wording in a snippet is assessed with the 12-word limit.
Main prose, selected headings, descriptions and social or schema snippet text can supply a match. A marker confined to a hidden or comment area is not automatically treated as the page's own unfinished copy.
How to read the result
Confirmed matches produce a high-severity finding. The report still needs context review, especially on documentation that quotes a marker deliberately. A pattern match does not establish that every sentence containing the words is unfinished.
Why it matters
An unfinished template field can appear outside the main body, including in the text used to describe a page. That is why the check looks beyond visible paragraphs while trying to preserve useful discussions of placeholder examples.
How to fix it
Open the cited field and replace actual filler with finished text, or remove the unfinished page from public use until it is ready. Inspect metadata as well as the body. If the text is a quoted example, check its context before editing. Fix the template that supplied it when the same field appears across pages.
Mentioning filler is not shipping filler
What we found in field audits
Problems in Content quality were found on 14 of the 14 sites we audited. These are area totals. Read the field-audit method.
Method note
backend/seo_engine/checks/content.py, placeholder, revision 0bb8e8d3.
Common questions
How much surrounding text is checked for a placeholder marker?
The search uses a 160-character window. Additional guards distinguish examples and quoted discussion from unfinished copy.
Are snippet announcements and holding pages tested with the same word limit?
No. Snippet announcements use a 12-word limit; holding-page checks use 200 words. Each has its own context rules.
How serious is a confirmed placeholder in published content?
It receives a high-severity finding. Read the marked passage in context before replacing a legitimate example.