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Hello everyone,

My website used to have about 500k indexed pages in Google.

After publishing fresh sitemaps and a little local "buzz", it now has about 6 millions indexed pages and the numbers are skyrocketing (GWT says 7 millions and it will probably keep going).

My website has a total number of pages of 10 millions.

I used to have about 5k organic visite each day, but since the big indexation has started, I now have half less. I read many things about that kind of trafic drop, and it seems to be a normal step when indexing a huge site.

I just wanted to know if you guys had any similar experiences and if yes, if there are specific tasks to do in order to recover/develop the organic trafic or if it's just a matter of time.

Thanks for your help and share of experiences

Hello everyone,

Thanks for sharing your experience and your answers, it's greatly appreciated.

The website is build in order to avoid cookie cutter pages : each page will have unique content from classifieds (unique because classifieds won't be indexed in the first place, to avoid having too much pages).

The linking is as well though in order for each page to have permanents internal links in a logical way.

I understand from your answers that it is better to take time and to index the site step by step : mostly according to the number and the quality of classifieds (and thus the content) for each jobs/locality. It's not worth to index pages without any classifieds (and thus unique content) as they will be cut off by Google in a near future.

Hello everyone,

I am currently working for a huge classified website who will be released in France in September 2013.

The website will have up to 10 millions pages. I know the indexing of a website of such size should be done step by step and not in only one time to avoid a long sandbox risk and to have more control about it.

Do you guys have any recommandations or good practices for such a task ? Maybe some personal experience you might have had ?

The website will cover about 300 jobs :

• In all region (= 300 * 22 pages)
• In all departments (= 300 * 101 pages)
• In all cities (= 300 * 37 000 pages)

Do you think it would be wiser to index couple of jobs by couple of jobs (for instance 10 jobs every week) or to index with levels of pages (for exemple, 1st step with jobs in region, 2nd step with jobs in departements, etc.) ?

More generally speaking, how would you do in order to avoid penalties from Google and to index the whole site as fast as possible ?

One more specification : we'll rely on a (big ?) press followup and on a linking job that still has to be determined yet.

Thanks for your help !

Best Regards,

Raphael

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your quick answer. I'm not sure what process we are going to use for this bloc yet as my developing skills are really poor and we are still in an early phase of the project.

Still, you answered my question ! Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I am working on a project so the website is not online at the moment.

My question is about Google's view on geolocated results : on the mainpage of the website, a bloc will be displaying local classifieds according to where the visitor is located.

What will be Google's view on this bloc as it has no location ? A white empty bloc ?

Bonus question : do you have any experience regarding this kind of situation ? How do you best deal with it in your opinion ?

Thanks for your help !

Best Regards,

Raphael

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on the website of a friend, who's owning a French spa treatment company.

I have been working on it for the past 6 months, mostly on optimizing the page titles and the link building.

So far the results are great in terms on normal results : if you type most of the keywords and the city name, the website would be very well positioned, if not top positioned.

My only problem is that in the local results (Google Maps), nothing has improved at all. In most of the same keyword where the website is ranking 1st on normal results, the website doesn't appear at all on the same keywords in local results. This is confusing as you would think Google think the website is relevant to the subject according to the normal results but it doesn't show any good ones in a local matter.

The website is clearly located in the city (thanks to the pages titles and there's a Google Map in a specific page dedicated to its location).

The company has a Google Places page and it has positive customers reviews on different trusted websites for more than a year now (the website is 2 years old). I focused my work concerning the link building on the local websites (directories and specialized websites) for the past 2 months. The results kept improving on normal results but still no improvement at all in the local ones.

As far as I know, there is no mistakes such as multiple addresses for the same business etc. Everything seems to be done by the rules.

I am not sure at all what more I can do. The competitors do not seem to be working their SEO pretty much and in terms of linking (according to the -pretty good- Seomoz tools), they have up to 10 times less (good) links than us.

Maybe you guys have some advice on how I can manage this situation ? I'm kind of lost here

Thanks a lot for your help, appreciate it.

Cheers,
Raphael