veedub - 9:19 am on Apr 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

I think what decaff is saying might be true after all.

I launched a site in a very competitive area early january. Since then I received amazing backlinks from authority sites because they also believe it is a very useful resource. The site has a PR6 now but almost no traffic from google. In fact I get about 10 times more traffic from teoma/ask jeeves.

Sofar google spidered and indexed about 4% of all pages and the spider is still very slow. While all static pages are generated from a database, it is not spam but it could be easily mistaken for that if looking at it from a spiders perspective.

It is a huge site though and I believe that might be the problem. Google thinks it is unnatural to launch a very big site from the start.

But I still believe in the longtime success. If more and more authority sites link to my site, google just has to recognize this eventually and rank my pages accordingly.