Sand Box for New Pages?

[scrodney]

This is my first time posting and I'm definitely not an SEO guru, so be kind.

I have what I consider a strong site, home page PR6 and we rank well for our base keywords, top ten. We recently did some work with an SEO company to ,of course, help our organic listings. We ended up creating maybe 100 new pages. It has been a couple of months and still no sign of them. Maybe half of the pages had a re-direct from an old similiar page that had rank and that seemed to work for a few weeks. Then those disappeared.

I've been told that these pages will just take a little while to get indexed.

Is there any easy way to tell if a page is being penalized?
Is there a "sand box" for new pages being created from an existing site?
Is there a way to tell when the last time a page was indexed?

Sorry if these are basic things any chump should know but any help would be appreciated.

[Kostis Panayotakis]

< Is there a way to tell the last time a page was indexed? >

Check the cached page from the SERP.
The index date is mentioned on top.

[seomike]

From what I've seen if the parent site is trusted you can add new pages and they inherit the trust.

[pleeker]

We ended up creating maybe 100 new pages.And these pages were added over what time frame? One day? A week?

Also, how many pages does your site have?

Maybe half of the pages had a re-direct from an old similiar page that had rankWhat kind of redirect?

I've been told that these pages will just take a little while to get indexed.Other than the redirect, did you do anything to help the spider find the new content?

Is there any easy way to tell if a page is being penalized?For such new pages, not really. A penalized page might be one that is no longer crawled regularly, one that has lost its PR, or some such thing. If you consider going into Google's supplemental index a penalty, that would be another way to know. (But that's not really a penalty.)

Is there a "sand box" for new pages being created from an existing site?All other things being equal, if you have a trusted site and you help the spiders find your new pages easily, your new pages should be crawled and indexed pretty quickly. But your answers to the questions above might explain what happened. :)

[scrodney]

And these pages were added over what time frame? One day? A week?The pages were added over one day.

Also, how many pages does your site have? a little over 16,000
What kind of redirect?301

Other than the redirect, did you do anything to help the spider find the new content?We just added a google site map, as I was told this might fix the problem. I was also told that if after a month the pages are not being indexed we will need to re-create these pages as static pages.

[pleeker]

The pages were added over one day.Do you commonly add 100 pages a day?

We just added a google site map, as I was told this might fix the problem.It very well could. Probably won't hurt. Let us know what happens.

I was also told that if after a month the pages are not being indexed we will need to re-create these pages as static pages.So the new pages are dynamic content?

[scrodney]

Do you commonly add 100 pages a day? No, this is probably one of the few times we have done this. A typical day for us is 1 to 5 pages.
So the new pages are dynamic content?Yes, the new pages are dynamic. I have heard many times that dynamic pages are not google's favorite but I was assured but our SEO company that they would work fine. I'm guessing they were wrong. The way we have this currently set up is the new pages are in an index that you access from our homepage. It appears that the page is getting indexed but none of the content.

Right now we are just waiting and hoping the site map works.