I have a client who wants a new website asap but it will be a couple of weeks before I can start work. Should I create a dummy webpage with the home page text but no pictures or formatting and put that on his url so I can get the website indexed by Google? Or for the sake of a couple of weeks, would it be better for his site if Google sees a complete working website complete with pics with alt text and back pages?? Would appreciate any thoughts.
You can use google submit to sumit the url. However, you would need content for it to be indexed. the faster you get indexed the faster you will be out of sandbox, if one do exist.
it doesn't hurt getting a page up and update that when the compete site is done. a site up today is better than no site at all
you can put a simple page on your website with all title and meta tags on it..................so you can analyse your website ranking for a sample page................once you update the complete website then you may have the good rankings...........
Ya, i agree that you can submit your website first and then continue to develop it but i suggest you to have a general content with appropriate title and description before submitting it. As after google has crawled and index your website for the first time, the second time crawling would take a long time if your website didn't have good backlinks. (my first crawl took less than a week but second crawl took me a month after i've changed my title).
Many thanks all for your replies. lhianyih: I guess this is what I was bothered about - getting the site indexed with content and h1 tags for one page (no alt text, no other pages) and then google takes ages to recrawl it for more info so it's indexed but not doing as well as if it had all the info there.