Should we continue to add content while pages are dropping out?

[kidder]

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It seems like no one can define the current rules. Is our new content going to be picked up or should we hold off and wait to see how this plays out?

[F_Rose]

We are continuing.. Thier is really no reason to stop..Google should recover..And once they do, new contents will only help your SERP's..

That's is my opinion..

[larryhatch]

I would take a good hard look at the dropped pages. Are they too much alike?
Have others look at them as objectively as possible. Do they come across as spammy?

By all means keep adding content, but try to steer clear of the most obvious pitfalls. -Larry

[kidder]

Yes we have looked at the pages that have been dropped. We've lost some good unique content pages all the same. Of course we want our new pages to stay in so that's the question here .... What is good SEO practice for today. We had considered that there may be some type of penalty for adding pages too quickly? Does this raise a red flag?

[stinkfoot]

Of course. If you wait for google to get itself back into the realms of a good and working search engine you will be waiting a good few years yet.

[drako]

There is in my opinion Never a good reason Not adding new content...

succes

[tigger]

I'm still adding content after all Y & MSN likes it

[F_Rose]

Is thier a penalty adding pages too fast?

[trinorthlighting]

I do not know about adding pages to quickly and a penalty, unless they are spam pages.

I try to add 10-15 pages a day for my customers (New products, information about products, etc....)

Remeber, you are adding content for your visitors, not google. If your visitors enjoy the content, then add away.

[Halfdeck]

Build your site as if Google didn't exist; otherwise, while you wait for Google to correct itself, your competition will leave you far behind.

[gendude]

Keep adding.

It happened to me this week, as it has happened to several people I know.

My view - this is a very valuable lesson for some, and in fact should be more of a motivation to add new content. Why add new content?

- Yahoo, MSN, etc., haven't went away (and my MSN traffic has been climbing over the past few weeks)

- More content means more chances to be linked from other sites

Some people don't like to link to sites that they feel compete with their's. I'm the opposite. One of my sites is in a very competitive field, and I have no problem linking with other sites. I have even become friends with a couple of people who operate a site that overlaps my target area.

To use a nice, round easy number.

If you had a 1000 pages indexed, and dropped to five hundred, and one of your competitors had a 1000 pages indexed and dropped to five hundred, if they are linked to you, then it's almost like adding another 500 pages to your index, because if people look at any of those 500 pages they have indexed, there is a chance they'll see your site link and head your way.

Take this as a wake up call to network in the proverbial sense. Work on stories/articles that will get you linked from other sites, and don't be afraid to contact those other sites saying "I wrote a story about such and such that you might be interested in", because if they are looking for news or whatever, your article is news.

[dibbern2]

Keep adding new pages. There's a good chance they will be added to the index just as before these troubles.

I lost 60% of my pages in the index, but new pages in the last 2 weeks are being spidered and added. It really doesn't make sense, but I'll take it.

[minnapple]

I have been doing some studies on the issue of the amount of pages google will index.

Looks like a pure inbound link weight factor.

If you can create new pages that are link bait, the site will be indexed deeper. This is really why the whole blog thing is hot. Blog on the bottom, real site on the top.

[kidder]

Looks like the world will continue to spin with or without google -

[kidder]

Two of our sites had been sitting rock steady through most of this - so we started making some changes - adding some content. Site one dropped from 26,000 pages to just 3. Site number 2 is starting to slide down form 10,000 pages and is now at 799 and falling. Pages dropped so far have been pr2 on average. It almost seemed like adding new content was like putting up a target and saying "shoot us now it's our turn".

[tigger]

I've been adding content right throughout this, and yesterday saw the biggest jump in page count went from 224 to 327 (on a 600 page site) on DC 64.233.183.104 from the UK, so I don't think adding content will cause any problems maybe the other way round - who knows

[kidder]

Yes then maybe some other factor is in play - yet to be determined. On one data center the site: command lists our pages in a logical order yet on another it seems to deliver our internal pages first. It means our search results fluctuate quite a lot from day to day or even hour to hour.

[vanillaice]

Yes i'm adding content like normal. MSN is picking up some pages, and i'm just hoping when google gets back to normal, i'll see a huge boost in traffic.