Hit by the update...

...but saved by the freshbot

[gunther]

I'm quite a rookie webmaster, but I think I start to understand why I was hit by the previous update. I didn't post in the 'update' thread, as I was just too disappointed with the result, while I worked very hard on the site last month.

Are there any experienced guys here who can tell me if I'm thinking the right way?

I changed my URL scheme last month (a bit after the deepcrawl, I'm afraid). Urls like 'script.php?cat=7&sub=1' were replaced by content/cat7/sub1/index.html.

The old url types also worked, because I generated a 301 header pointing to the new 'virtual' HTML file.

I added a lot of content last month, and the freshbot picked it up nicely during october. So I assumed these pages would be fixed into google's databased with the previous update. However, only my main page was still showing up, and not one of my other pages was in the SERPs!

This morning however, freshbot picked them up again and a couple are back in the SERPs with a fresh tag of TODAY!

So now I assume it will take until the november update for all this content to be in google's database, when the deepcrawl has found them. Am I right about this?
And was I stupid to do fundamental site changes right after the deepcrawl of october?

My site still shows a PR of 6, but my backlinks dropped from 92 to 38?
I think that the 'real' PR may have dropped a bit, because the freshbot used to take like 30 pages, and this morning it only took about 10...

Can someone please confirm my point of view? Or am I thinking wrong?

[ciml]

Sometimes you can be lucky, especially if you have low PageRank, but you should allow two updates for changes to show in the main index. Fresh listings of course can happen any time.