Is there such a thing as too many pages?

I am planning to launch a new website with quite a few unique content pages.

I have heard that (from Matt Cutts I think it was) that launching a new website with thousands of pages initially may cause Google to look unfavorably. The best idea is to build up over time.

Does anyone know more about this? Think 500 pages would be fine on launch?

Thanks

 

I started a forum. And by the time google got to it it was doing 100 pages growth per day (and still does). Its taken over a year to get indexed fully and google is still behind indexing.

I would stronly advise buying your domain for a long period such that google knows your in this for the long term.

Pierce

 

You need to have enough link juice to get them all indexed, which is easier with a smaller site.

 

...Or just a decent sitemap

 

a sitemap will get the pages crawled but without deep links they won't be indexed.

 

A lot of my pages are down a few levels in the hierarchy and don't have external links coming into them since they may be very specific and only linked from a parent page. They are all in the index, though.

 

Hi, starting a site with too many pages will send a red flag to Google as "unnatural growth". These sites are often mistaken as "spam" sites if you can recall about the autogenerated websites using autogeneration software like Directory Generator, RSSGM, and so on. It would serve you well to grow the site naturally over time, ie since you have 500 pages, start with maybe 10 - 20, then grow it with 5-10 a day.

 

I've noticed something like this in the past, although wasn't sure if it was just a short term thing.

Do you think I need deep links to every page on my site if I want it all to get indexed? (As opposed to just a bunch of pages)

 

Based upon my experience, no. Not if you are referring to external deep links. I have them, but certainly not to every page.

 

Thank the gods

 

No offense at all but since when did buying a domain for 10 years at : $89.95 make any business legit?

 

I recently started a review site with 3,500 pages at launch. I add about 100ish per day. Google has indexed 4,800 of the now 6,000 pages. I had the domain for about a month before launch.

I'm about to launch another 3,000ish page information site pretty confidently.

So no, I don't think 500 is a big deal.

 

I have a website with 100 pages and a good, dynamic sitemap linked too from robots.txt, every single page gets indexed within a day or two of being put up. I only have like 3 deep links but wuite a few to the homepage.