Adding Database-Driven Pages as Static

6000 at once or a few at a time

[selomelo]

Currently, I am converting a dictionary in Word format into mysql. It is a field-specific bilingual dictionary of some 6,000 terms with definitions. I use a script that I modified quite a lot to make it both user- and SE-friendly.

And I wrote a mod rewrite to render all pages into static html pages where each page contains one dictionary entry, its translation and definition. I tested it and it runs smoothly.

Now, my question is: Should I make it "live" all at once (just putting a link would suffice to make 6000 pages spiderable)? Or should I delete all records and add the entries in parts at certain intervals?

My home page has a PR of high 5 (google directory 22/40, RK = 6), and I am planning to link it from the homepage.

[tedster]

From the description it sounds OK to go all at once -- that would best serve your human visitors, after all. It will probably take a long time for all those new urls to be crawled, at any rate.

Of course, there are other variables that can affect your ranking with this change, such as how many other urls the site has, and especially whether this new set of urls opens you up to any kind of "infinite url" space and so on. Make sure you've got the code nailed down tight.