1000 extra pages in 1 min!! Was it a good choice?

Good Morning,
Well... I just made a small change to my website, but one that is going to have some serious implications. The forums were not being indexed because of the session IDs. I played with the forum source code, and now, it no longer uses sessions for guest accounts..

What this means is that suddenly, Google will start to index all the posts in my forums.
There are now more than 1000 posts. Google will suddenly see an increase in the number of pages in my site from 40 to 1040!!!
I was wondering, what is gonna happen to my PR?
The forum page itself had a PR of 4.
and now with 1000 extra pages... what will happen?
Will the PR4 get distributed on the 1000 pages?
will the 1000 pages add anything to the PR? I know 1 page can add very little, but, what about 1000?

Was it a good choice to make?

Thank you very much in advance for all the help...

Yours,
msaad

As I understand PR and have seen on my own sites, making a very large addition can decrease the PR of your existing pages - especially if you place lots of links from the existing pages into the new pages. If you only have one link into the forum on each page of your site you might not see much of a decrease.

All of those new pages will add a little PR to your site and if you have a few links on each forum page to special topic pages within your site they will see some benefit from the additional link text - but I doubt that it will boost the PR of your original pages very much.

The real benefit might be in the additional pages indexed. If the posts in your forum are rich in content they might draw a little traffic. Plus the added link text will probably do you more good than any new PR.

I did "open" my forum for google last christmas, and about 10-15,000 new pages were indexed in 2-3 weeks.

I could not see any increase/decrease in PR at all, but a HUGE increase in visitors..

Did you use the mod_rewrite as well?
You wont get any PR on the forum posts if you didn't...

Yes you should see some increase in PR and definately in the traffic!

that's not true at all actually

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=250 - PR3
etc

it's quite possible to get PR with query strings in php urls.

Query strings such as showthread.php?t=250 are not a problem when it comes to spidering.
However the session ID's such as showthread.php?f=1&sid=e574ed40b07ff69b1483b1ab8a337747
are a problem.

I will take a stab and say the original poster is using phpBB and installed the Google hack, removing the session ID's which
results in Google being able to crawl the forum with no probs.

Egol was pretty much spot on when he said...


It will benefit your site by having more pages indexed, and more entry levels in Googles search results.

I see PR 0 on that page??
And none of my forum subjects has got any PR at all.
(Session ID's removed many months ago, and all pages spidered and inexed (about 15-20,000...)
www.milforum.com

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