g1smd - 7:26 pm on Dec 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

>> - if its ONLY the titles and description you change (and no change within the body) <<

>> - and you do that for lets say more than 20% of total number of pages of the said site <<

>> I should say already now that there is a big chance that the pages will be sandboxed for sometime (maybe several weeks or months <<

I don't agree with that.

A friend has a 140 page site where every description was the same. Each title was different, but not the meta description. The site used to be listed OK in Google and ranks OK (it has been online about 2 years).

As of several months ago, a site:domain.com search listed just FIVE pages before giving the "click here to view the similar pages omitted from the results" message. Clicking that link (adding &filter=0 to the search URL), then listed all 140 pages and all showed an identical description.

Just as Jagger started, he changed most of the descriptions to be different (and has no description on about 15 pages). Within a week, the number of pages shown in a normal site:domain.com search had risen to about 30 pages. After another 10 days it was up to about 60 pages. After another few weeks it was up to about 90. Now, about 2 months after making those changes, it is up to about 110 pages.

There are about 15 pages that have no description tag at all (for whatever reason), and those pages show an identical snippet from the top of the page itself, and only show up in Google results when you click that link to reveal omitted results.

Site is ranking better than ever, and visitor numbers are up too.