Adding too many new pages at once - will it be seen as spammy

[Andy-Halliday]

I have a database of around 10,000 business I want to list on my directory.

My problem has been that my people have been adding to the database for over a year, but due to my hosting limitations adding them, caused my site to crash.

I have now got this sorted, would going from 1,000 urls listed to over 11,000 may Google think I am trying to spam them.

Would it be worth while dripping them in over time, or just adding them all at once.

Any advice appreciated, Thanks

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

If you have a site that had a large volume of pages already, and you were to release 10,000, it might not be as much of an issue, but I would suggest that only having about 1,000, you drop feed these over a period of time. To add them in a rush might cause you issues.

There are never any guarantees that issues might arise if you add them all in one go, but it certainly isn't something I would suggest doing.

-Andy

[Sebes]

Hey Ahalliday,

I have seen huge structured-data driven sites with 100k+ pages set online at once to no detrimental effect, but I wouldn't do it. Generally speaking you should be save to start with half and see what happens.

What I would suggest is that you split your pages by categories / types or whatever seems appropriate and list each type in its own distinct sitemap.xml . When you turn in the sitemaps in the webmaster tools you can see the indexation by those categories / types. Any low indexation % might be a hint that the pages are indeed spam and not worth indexing.

Sebastian

[gazzerman1]

I have released 10's of thousands of pages at once on many occasions on multiple sites and never had an issue. Why should there be an issue? If the content is good then Google wants it.

If its poor low quality content then you are feeding Panda and it will take an overview of the total quality of the site and then slap you. So decide how useful all of that content is and why you want it all indexed.

You could even deploy all the content at once and set some categories to noindex and change them bit by bit to see the effects. I think Panda runs about once a month right now so you will need to be a little patient to see overall results.