Google Flags Sites That Add Too Many New URLs

Sep 4, 2006 - 8:59 am 4 — by

It appears that Matt Cutts of Google has added a tidbit to his already mind-swimming post named Scoble visiting the Plex, Matt added;

By the way, it looks like the primary issue with the Windows Live Writer blog was the large-scale migration from spaces.msn.com to spaces.live.com about a month ago. We saw so many urls suddenly showing up on spaces.live.com that it triggered a flag in our system which requires more trust in individual urls in order for them to rank (this is despite the crawl guys trying to increase our hostload thresholds and taking similar measures to make the migration go smoothly for Spaces). We cleared that flag, and things look much better now.

A sudden increase of URLs on spaces.live.com triggered a Google flag, once they cleared "that flag," things began to "look much better."

So adding new URLs or Sub domains can trigger such a flag? Google has flags that bring up manual review?

Sites with seasonal products that add hundreds of products during that season can be affected? I doubt it. Revamping a site's URL structure can trigger a flag? Depends on if this is a subdomain thing or not...

There are just now so many questions an SEO may have from this post.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Google Search Volatility

More Details

Search Video Recaps

 
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Google Maps

Google Business Home - New Google Business Profiles Home

Oct 22, 2026 - 10:42 am
Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 22, 2026

Oct 22, 2026 - 10:00 am
Google Maps

Google Search Tests Layout Change For Local Knowledge Panel

Oct 22, 2026 - 7:51 am
Google Ads

Google Ads New Translation Tool

Oct 22, 2026 - 7:41 am
Google Ads

Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Goals: Value Mode, Retention Goals & Percentage Multipliers

Oct 22, 2026 - 7:30 am
Other Search Engines

3 New Studies Suggest AI Visibility & Search Not Worth Investing In

Oct 22, 2026 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Microsoft adCenter Allows 100,000 Keywords Per Account