That's just it. I have a site with about 50 pages, and I want to add around 150 pages to it suddenly, from a database. Will this do any harm in the search engines? The pages are fairly unique, with unique titles and META descriptions. Everything is meta-rewritten well.
Sandbox is already around 9 months long, and the trend is – increasing duration. So I would never put all 150 "suddenly". My way of doing that would be... 40 pages go now, 110 go but with this tag: <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> After 3 weeks remove tag from 40 more pages, and 3 weeks after that from remaining 70. If you do not hurry to get indexed by G, you can go even safer by making those 3 weeks 5, and splitting last batch. I invented this when I got 1200 pages at once, heavily interlinked, so I could not wait with some offline and upload gradually. Works fine. Google shows "shaded" pages in "site:" count, but indexed are only those allowed. Tip for those with more pages – I believe we can increase the number of added pages every time (40, next time 60, 90, ...). That would be good if radar is sophisticated enough. ______________________________ Please excuse my bad English.
If such pages are unique and of good quality whether static or dynamic (from database) then there is nothing to fear if you add them at once. You are not spamming anyway.
I think the quality of pages is not something that machine can judge, or does judge. On the other hand, I am sure that there is simple fact in its algorithm that pulls the trigger. And that is the (arguable) number "too much" at once. New sites with "pages unique and of good quality whether static or dynamic" get sandboxed regularly. It is more "unnatural" that 150 pages appear at once, so even more reasons for sandbox.
That sounds like a good plan of action madeinEurope. Has anyone else tried something like this? My biggest fear of course is being sandboxed, as this particular site is already getting a large share of Google traffic - and I'd like it to stay that way .
Why worry? I add lots of pages regularly to my ecomm sites. I remove some, add a bunch, remove some others. Its natural for a site to grow.
Sandbox?!? What sandbox?!? I have sites with page numbers ranging from a handful to hundreds get indexed in waaaaaaay less time then that!
Surprisingly only this in Wiki: (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox) Bolding is mine. . . . . . . Btw, there is plenty of real info about sandbox, starting here: forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=71522