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Google Site Index Stuck
One of our client's websites is enduring a Google indexing problem in that the number of indexed pages using "site:<website>.com" varies greatly to that shown in Google webmaster tools. The site is about 2 years old and was steadily growing in Google index size until they implemented a 301 redirect for 80% of their urls. This was done so as to include an ID in the url and speed up data retrieval from the database. At the time the 301 was implemented, about 6 months ago, Google had indexed about 300,000 pages. Today, in Google webmaster tools, there are 1,800,000 pages shown as having been indexed from the sitemap, but only 330,000 - 355,000 ever show on Google.
1. Is there a penalty by Google for performing so many 301 redirects? What is the maximum time period it can last?
2. What can contribute to a site not moving up in index size? Google reports it is indexing over 70,000 pages a day on average.
3. What are some of the penalties that a growing site could catch from Google that might cause this?
4. Are there any techniques to getting a site indexed faster? I see websites that have been only online 6 months, have low pagerank and are over 1,000,000 pages.
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