Crawling and Indexing 250K Pages on Google: What’s the Best Approach?

• Content drip: Publish 1,000 pages per day or fewer.
• Google Search Console: Add the domain but avoid submitting a complete sitemap, allowing Googlebot to discover new pages on its own.

tex777 said:

I’m launching a website with 250K valuable pages, each associated with a different company. I’ve heard that a new domain with this many pages can hit crawl limits or, even worse, be flagged for spam.

I’m wondering what the best approach would be to help Google crawl and index the content safely and efficiently.

Should I do something like this?

• Content drip: Publish 1,000 pages per day or fewer.
• Google Search Console: Add the domain but avoid submitting a complete sitemap, allowing Googlebot to discover new pages on its own.

For smaller websites, I’ve usually submitted a sitemap through Google Search Console, and the pages were indexed successfully and relatively quickly. However, I’m concerned that this might not be the best approach for a website with 250K pages.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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tex777 said:

I’m launching a website with 250K valuable pages, each associated with a different company. I’ve heard that a new domain with this many pages can hit crawl limits or, even worse, be flagged for spam.

I’m wondering what the best approach would be to help Google crawl and index the content safely and efficiently.

Should I do something like this?

• Content drip: Publish 1,000 pages per day or fewer.
• Google Search Console: Add the domain but avoid submitting a complete sitemap, allowing Googlebot to discover new pages on its own.

For smaller websites, I’ve usually submitted a sitemap through Google Search Console, and the pages were indexed successfully and relatively quickly. However, I’m concerned that this might not be the best approach for a website with 250K pages.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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tex777 said:

I’m launching a website with 250K valuable pages, each associated with a different company. I’ve heard that a new domain with this many pages can hit crawl limits or, even worse, be flagged for spam.

I’m wondering what the best approach would be to help Google crawl and index the content safely and efficiently.

Should I do something like this?

• Content drip: Publish 1,000 pages per day or fewer.
• Google Search Console: Add the domain but avoid submitting a complete sitemap, allowing Googlebot to discover new pages on its own.

For smaller websites, I’ve usually submitted a sitemap through Google Search Console, and the pages were indexed successfully and relatively quickly. However, I’m concerned that this might not be the best approach for a website with 250K pages.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Click to expand...

tex777 said:

I’m launching a website with 250K valuable pages, each associated with a different company. I’ve heard that a new domain with this many pages can hit crawl limits or, even worse, be flagged for spam.

I’m wondering what the best approach would be to help Google crawl and index the content safely and efficiently.

Should I do something like this?

• Content drip: Publish 1,000 pages per day or fewer.
• Google Search Console: Add the domain but avoid submitting a complete sitemap, allowing Googlebot to discover new pages on its own.

For smaller websites, I’ve usually submitted a sitemap through Google Search Console, and the pages were indexed successfully and relatively quickly. However, I’m concerned that this might not be the best approach for a website with 250K pages.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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