Several Hundred Pages to index...but is it spam?

[Andy1969]

Hi

I have a several hundred new pages ready for Google (and others) to start indexing, is there a limit to how many new pages I should actually allow Google to index at any one time? Should I 'drip feed' a hundred pages at a time

These pages are in addition to ones that have already been published and are regularly indexed. We were 'informed' that if we give the engines too many pages at once they might be considered as 'spam'...do you think otherwise or is this the case?


Thanks

A69

[Mel]

I seriously doubt that adding to many pages to your site at a time is going to create any problems with search engines, unless of course adding those new pages will also add lots of new links from say a sitewide menu system.

[I, Brian]

unless of course adding those new pages will also add lots of new links from say a sitewide menu systemMel, why would you see an issue with a sitewide menu??

[Mel]

The only issue I would see is if the site wide menu which say linked to 100 pages would result in 40,000 new links at one time if 400 pages were added.

[David Wallace]

We were 'informed' that if we give the engines too many pages at once they might be considered as 'spam'...do you think otherwise or is this the case?
What are you doing - submitting them through an Add URL form?

[Andy1969]

No need, my site gets indexed daily so these pages will get picked up quite quickly, I just want to make sure I don't get done for spamming due to the amount of new pages I am thinking of putting live all at once.

Obviously these new pages have links from them and are all linked in one way or another from the site map. I can't find anything in Googgles / MSN / Yahoos T&Cs about the amount of pages you can / cannot suddenly make available for indexing, just had 'professional' advice to say we should'nt.

Thanks

A69

[Pannu]

I do not see any issues with this. Sites like Amazon have thousands of pages being added and taken off daily.

[Mel]

IMO its a bit naive to think that all sites get the same treatment or are suject to the same rules as Amazon or Microsoft.

[I, Brian]

The only issue I would see is if the site wide menu which say linked to 100 pages would result in 40,000 new links at one time if 400 pages were added.
I wouldn't see an issue with this - Google seems pretty good at ignoring static nav links on a site anyway.

However, throw in a dynamic feed to your nav, which publishes internal links to your pages, and Google seems to like that. Good way to get new content indexed faster, too.

[Mel]

I do not see Google ignoring nav links at all. I have many good rankings from them.

[I, Brian]

Sorry - should have said "devaluing" - but that conversation is going to end up as a debate on whether on-site sitewides are evaluated differently from off-site sitewides.

To circumvent that and return to the original question - if this is good content being added, then do it regardless - forget about search engines.

So long as you have basic SEO issues covered, then the bots will lap up the content and help internet traffic find it.

There's no reason not to use good content if that is what it actually is - and if it's not, then you simply set yourself up with a potential gauntlet of filters to run through.

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

I deal with very large sites all the time and I have never seen any problem with adding large amounts of pages at once. Just recently I added over 600,000 pages to a site and it all got indexed (and most well ranked) within a few weeks. So, go ahead :)

[Jill Whalen]

I just want to make sure I don't get done for spamming due to the amount of new pages I am thinking of putting live all at once.


My goodness! It's your site, not the search engine's. Add as many pages as you want/need.

[Andy1969]

Thanks all, your responses have been most helpful..I shall now release my pages to the good old www, let the games begin!!

;)