How many pages can you add every week to an old site?

no more than 5000 pages? or has it changed?

[Biggus_D]

Due the -950 issue that never ends we are planning on doing some radical things.

How many pages/URLs can you add every week (or day, or month) to an old site without being punished by Google?

[webmasterworld.com...]

says that no more than 5000 pages per week.

Has it changed? or is it a ratio depending on the pages of the original site?

What if a site has 1000 URLs and the other 13000?

Thank you,

[edited by: tedster at 4:45 am (utc) on June 18, 2007]
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[errorsamac]

I have added 1500 pages of new content over 1 month's time within receiving a penalty. I do not rank well in Google for this particular domain name however, but I know that it does not have the -950 penalty.

[Oliver Henniges]

> or is it a ratio depending on the pages of the original site?

I'd favour this one, but it is completely without warranty and highly subjective due to my own experiences.

Roughly a year ago I doubled my number of pages in a single day. some searches for highly UNcompetitive terms showed the pages were indexed within a few days, but it took almost a year until these pages received some toolbar-pagerank (though this might have other reasons).

I believe that "natural growth" is a very important criterion on all aspects: Number of backlinks, number of pages, number of products in database and so on. It is quite likely a strong abbreviation from former growth rates triggers some sort of filter, but of course noone knows about details nor thresholds for that ratio.

[Miamacs]

Are these same-level ( innermost ) pages, or would they have some hierarchy? If there's a difference in access level, you may want to add all same-level pages at once, ie. first the ones that are closest to the root, and build up from there.

If not, then you can gradually add them in order of importance, or whatever, but you'd better not add more than the current amount of pages at once.

[Biggus_D]

We're doubling the pages every week.

Not on the same level.