Against the advice of the folks at Google, we put up a medical thesaurus with over 166,000 pages (they say to limit the number of new pages to about 10,000) - and things went really well. The pages got indexed and we’ve started seeing an uptick in traffic.

Google Webmaster Tools has an option to set the crawl rate for your site. I’d never seen “faster” enabled as an option until I was working on a web site for a non-profit animal shelter.

Our test to see if Google would index 166,000 new pages (when people at Google say to only put up 10,000 new pages at a time), is going well. Google is crawling the pages and they’re starting to show up in the SERPs.

One of the rules in search engine optimization is to use permanent redirects to guide search engines from old URLs to new URLs, but Ask.com doesn’t observe them - or more precisely their implementation of them is completely wacked.