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Is it really just a few weeks to wait? I've noticed that behavior on a behemoth website I run--in fact there I've seen pages soar in the search engine the very same day I make them. I always thought that was just because of the site's stature, I figured for the small fries the old 3-6 month rule was still in effect.
And so I just did a more thorough check, and sure enough the new homepage area (about 50 pages) has been indexed now. I did some tests to see if they show up in the SERPs and yeah, they do, usually in the #1 or #2 position if you do the obvious 3-word searches. For 2-word searches it's hit or miss. I've never seen the site come up on the first page for any 1-word search, c'est la vie.
I didn't notice the traffic earlier because it's small compared to the forum, but now that I look more carefully, yeah we're getting some traffic to the new pages. To add to the confusion, this company that hosts the website has a really obnoxious logfile setup that makes it almost impossible for me to see what's going on, but that's another story.
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