I'm embarking on my next test... Adding a 166,225 pages to slicksurface.com. Slicksurface.com only has 185 pages indexed in Google. I know Matt Cutts said that adding a whole bunch of pages at once can screw you up (jump to time index 2:08 in the video), but...

1) The nature of the pages is that they're from a relational database, so they're interconnected and putting up some of them will reveal the URLs of the others. As a result, you can't really stage the launch of the pages.

2) He was talking specifically about new domains, not old established domains. So part of this test will be to see what happens when an established, trusted domain goes and greatly increases the number of pages on their site.

The pages are a crawlable medical thesaurus and the good part is that they're topically related to the inbound links we have from trusted sites (e.g. a medical illustration site, a medical photography site, and a consumer health content site). The hope is that in time they'll solidify slicksurface.com as a legitimate site for medical/pharmaceutical keywords.

There's still a ways to go before I get all of the pages up, but if you want a peak, here's one on 'food' that gives a sample of what they'll look like.

In my test to see how quickly I could get slicksurface.ca established... Five days later, there are 2 real pages in google.com's index, and 4 real pages in google.ca's index. There are also some URLs they're aware of that show up, but haven't been 'indexed' (Flash, etc.)

Tags: Duplicate Content, Google, Search Engines, slicksurface.com
Categories: Duplicate Content, Google, Search Engines