Quality or Quantity
 

I have around 500 posts on my site that are good quality in terms of SEO (plenty of text, images, etc.) but I also have around 2,000 that are low quality (barely any text, pretty much used just to direct users to good content).

My question is, would I be better to set the 2,000 low quality posts to draft so that the overall quality of the site is higher, or am I better to have the higher number of posts up so that there is still some organic search hits, even if the overall quality is lower?

It's all about quality.

You have a strange question.

Think of it from the user's perspective. If you came to a grocery store full of crap...

On the other hand, if you just want to make a quick buck and this is not a long term project, you can experiment with the low quality shit as because of quantity, might shot higher until get prosecuted by hungry panda...

Thanks guys, so basically ditch the low quality posts.

(Although they are low quality, the main aim of my blog is to help people find scenes, so even if I haven't had time to write up a post properly, it's still linked up so useful to users, hopefully, but crap in the eyes of search engines.)

Relevance doesn't have a character limit.

That's very good and actual question. According to my observation sites may have a lot of content, but when most of it is low quality, then it will rank overall low. On the other hand small site where all subpages have at least 50 words per post ranks even without incoming links.

I have also tried to not only add more text, but edit some (not all) old posts (add more text, categorize it better and deleted wrong tags) and within 2 days Google noticed it and gave me more organic traffic. It had stable organic traffic for months before this change.

So i say quality.

It does not matter, what matters in SEO terms ara backlinks even if you have shitty content if you have quality backlinks towards the shitty content it will rank

Wrong!

First of all it's unlikely for shitty content to have good backlinks. XBIZ or AVN online won't link to your link farm, right?

Second, lots of shitty backlinks is still shit, I would take 1 or 2 good ones over 1k of spammy shit.

Third, shitty content has low CTR on SERPs, google lowers the ranks for sites with high backlinks but low CTR

Forth, even if you have acceptable CTR on SERPs but have horrible "long clicks" you'll loose your ranks as well.

Fifth, even if you have no backlinks but good content, therefore good CTR and good long clicks, you'll climb up the SERPs and experiments have proved that.

"Quantity in itself is quality"

Famous quote by Joseph Stalin. It applies here:)