Changes made in the site taking effect in almost no time.

[seochristine]

Hi
It is for certain that we all have noticed that WebmasterWorld has changed it website structure not long ago. Considering the huge size of the forum I had expected Google would take long enough time to reflect all the changes. But it was stunning to see the new pages have gained the PR, that too a PR of 7.
The original Google Search News URL: [webmasterworld.com...] (Had PR 5: now showing PR 7)
The new URL: [webmasterworld.com...] (Had 0 PR naow showing PR 7)
Both the pages exist separately in the G index, providing exactly same content, none of them have been shoved off to the supplemental index.

[Brett_Tabke]

> changed it website structure not long ago

Only for the new stuff - all the old stuff stayed where it was.

It's been almost 5 months since the change. I was thinking it was taking a very long time to update.

> dupe content

Ya, I don't know what we are going to do there, but we'll do something. It was an oversight at first. Then we realized that it should be a perm redirect from the old forum indexes /forum30/ to the new forum indexes /google/ and that looks to be a technical (but doable) challenge that will take a lot of time to impliment.

I don't know what G would do with them. Given they are dynamic - and time between Gbot spidering the first and then spidering the other - they could change. So it isn't necc exact content. Which is interesting and might explain why it didn't get discounted.

All I know, is it was a massive code undertaking to produce the new urls. If I had to do over again - I would have left it.

[seochristine]

Hi Brett
Thanks for replying :)
But why in the first place did you undertake such a huge restructuring of the famous "FORUM30" of WebmasterWorld,
and even if you did take all the trouble, why did you not 301 it to the new one.

Given they are dynamic - and time between Gbot spidering the first and then spidering the other - they could change.

well your views seem to be more than logical.
But a direct jump to PR 8 for home page, and PR 7 for the new page, and again PR 7 for the "forum30".
All of it seems to have taken place in a flash.
We did a lot of changes, to our site but took more than a year for Google to reflect the changes. ( Not as huge & famous as WebmasterWorld) but not very small too.

[Brett_Tabke]

> why in the first place did you undertake

An appeasement the whiners that were going on about "why don't you guys put keywords in urls". Sounded like a plan at the time. I also wanted that capability in the software. The only way to test it was to put it out there in action...

> why did you not 301

301's are a dicey business. The se's have never gotten it consitently right.