Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
NB: This is a quality site about a substantial, serious topic. The site is several years old. The home page has a PR of 4 (although to date the new inner pages still have PR zero).
Both before and after the site redesign, I have been tracking the Google SERPs (also Yahoo! and MSN SERPs) for 20 or so keywords. After the site redesign, most keywords dropped rank, although surprisingly several #1s remained unaffacted. There has been a gradual recovery for many, but not all, of the keywords since then. Traffic has just about recovered to pre site redesign levels.
Of course, a major reason for chunking the site into many different, focused pages in this way is to achieve SERPs presence for many more keywords, thereby attracting more search traffic. About 90% of the traffic to this site is organic, with just a dozen or two search visitors daily. There is much search upside potential.
The googlebot is crawling the site sporadically (as are the Yahoo! and MSN bots). By now, most of the new pages have been spidered, if not yet indexed.
Does anyone have similar experience taking a site from one page to many in a very short span of time? Is there a Google "sudden-growth-spurt" penalty? Are new pages sandboxed? When can I expect the inner pages to achieve PR > 0? How long before I enjoy the fruits of chunking the one-page monolithic site into dozens of smaller, more tightly focused pages? Anything else I should look out for?
