Just a quick note to let you know, if you are interested in seeing what happens to a site with hundreds of thousands of indexed pages when it is redirected to a new domain. So far, around 2000 pages are indexed from the new domain with 262,000 left by my count. It’s happening right now, which makes it all the more interesting.
Oh and there is a new design & features and even a movie…
September 8th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Looks like it’s up to 181,000 now!
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:delicious.com
so lets see Your post was July 31st -
So thats..what 40 days?
That means over the past month it has indexed 4475 pages a day on average.
With 81,000 pages left to index (not including new pages created in the month) it will take another 18 days if it keeps up at the same pace.
What I think would have been interesting if we had had a map of URLS on delicious that had PR, and track to see if the redirect impacted that PR score across the board…rescoring the entire site, or keeping the new urls with the same relevance…
September 8th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Nice analysis, though a couple of points worth mentioning.
1. Those “number of pages” in Google are often a WILD estimate.
2. Right now it says 181K on the .com and 8 pages on the .us Well thats 181K pages. Google used to show 262k or so for the old domain.
This leads me to conclude that:
a) Google is completely inaccurate.
b) Delicious just lost 50-80K pages in that move.
Either, Or or Both.
As another point, Toolbar PR has little relevance compared to Actual PR, and therefore near impossible to get accurate results. It may have been wiser in hindsight to track a range of delicious’ rankings and see how they compared in order to have a better understanding.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Update.
There are 7 pages left
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=site%3Adel.icio.us&btnG=Search
unless you click the “repeat the search with the omitted results included”
Then you find 1M *almost* pages
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:del.icio.us&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&filter=0