New site coming up with 200+ pages

Hi All,

I am kind of new on the seochat forums but not newbie in SEO

We have built a highly optimized site (we believe so) for our keywords which includes some 200 plus pages and plan to make it online next month, however I have got some questions about which I felt comfortable asking over here.

this is what the site consists of:
- got lots of internal links and cross linking into internal pages and links to authority sites in the pages
- lots of unique and finely written content, it was a real time consuming and costly job.
- all together XHTML 1.0 DTD-strict transformation, complete CSS based layout and all those white hat designing techniques you may know by visiting some pro sites

my questions are:
- how soon will these pages will get indexed?
- will those uniquely and finely/professionally written content make a difference in serps? I believe that G bro is more in love with contents than Y!. is that correct?
- will XHTML1.0 strict is going to help us in any manner (in the context of SEO)?
- what if someone copies our content to use on their site, can we have them blocked by search engines because this will be a straight copyright infringement?.
- our domain is new but we've got 301 redirects from our old domain, and presently it seems to be index by G and Y!. The question is will we get some ranks between 1-10 on our searched keywords?

I know that hard work done in a correct direction pays, but hard work don't in wrong direction doesn't pay at all, but i am very optimistic about getting some converting traffic as soon as we're online I request the posters of the forum to please criticize my optimism here.

many thanks
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DF

If you have sufficient incoming links, it shouldn't take long at all for the pages to rank.

Google does indeed love content. The only thing you can do is launch it, and see what happens.

I have to agree Google does like unique content ...

It does not matter what markup you use for SEO purposes. Standards are nice for maintenance and features but have little impact on ranking.

My only concern is the redirect ... is there content already indexed at the new location? Massive changes to sites usually raise some red flags at Google ... you may actually get lower ranked or even sand boxed until they sort out the differences.

Yes the site is completely redesigned, but off course its for the same subject and relavency as it was earlier.

Yes the old one and the new one both of the url are indexed, i have just started to notice from a week ago that google and yahoo have removed indexes (thats good one) of the old site that is now sending 301 perm redirects. new site is shining now shining in search engines (still with old contents).

Does'nt sandboxing is refered to only new domains with no inbound links, our old domain have got some 800+ unique relavent links, and the new site have got 50 authority links.

basic you must update index page one time per day. and put more link back to your site.
I help for my friend can out from sandbox within 2 months, and have pr2 within 3 months.

"Sand box" may have been a little harsh ...

An old spammer trick was to buy up old domains and insert their new content ... so a lot of search engines watch for this kind of activity. Massive changes have been known to cause drops in SERPs, loss of PR, and worse.

There are plenty of threads that start with "I updated my site and ...". Have a look around.

If Google is taking the changes and your site is doing OK -- then congratulations are in order for a successful transition.