Assume I'm going to complete a website complete in 6 months. For SEO on this new domain, is it better to break ground asap and post at least 1 page up so Google will crawl and 'start the clock' on the history of credibility with that domain? ...Or is it better to wait 6 months and tell Google only when the full, multi-page website is complete? Either way, I will revealing the content in 6 months, it's just whether its advantageous to have 6 months of extra history, or if burns my bridges by telling Google too soon with too little content, if it would lessen the attention it gets 6 months later when complete? Thanks for anyone with wisdom and experience in this!
No should not submit an incomplete website. I think it is better to wait til the construction of the site is totally complete before submission.
Anyone else have an opinion? There's plenty of companies that make money on our parked domains while we spend months working on our site. It might be our $ loss, and for SEO, I wonder if releasing an incomplete site sooner is better?
I agree with you. A complete site with at least 1 full blog post or a full and uniquely written article holds more weight in Google's eyes, than an incomplete website with any kind of ads on it. To them, it'll seem as if the4 webmaster might be desperate if they do things that way, don't you think?
Post your site when its complete, if you submit a incomplete website I'd assume your traffic from google would have a high bounce rate.
Its better to live your website with a flag containing "Website is under construction", Don't forget to forbid indexing via robots.txt. Make your site indexable when it is fully functional.
Assume I'm going to complete a website complete in 6 months. For SEO on this new domain, is it better to break ground asap and post at least 1 page up so Google will crawl and 'start the clock' on the history of credibility with that domain? ...Or is it better to wait 6 months and tell Google only when the full, multi-page website is complete? Either way, I will revealing the content in 6 months, it's just whether its advantageous to have 6 months of extra history, or if burns my bridges by telling Google too soon with too little content, if it would lessen the attention it gets 6 months later when complete?
As long as the content is good, why should it matter when you post it? Its nice to get the website off the ground with a few quality content pages, then start building links.
Every web site is incomplete. It takes real time to gather credibility, so complete one page, and post it. As you add features and links do so in a manner that makes your web site complete but expanding. My advice is to do it now. Time is wasting. And never put a "work in progress" or "under construction" sign on your web site. Better to put a "come back soon for even more content" type of message if any at all. wiz
I would write at least one good article for the homepage and then add to it in 6 months rather than having it just sit there with no content. You're site is going to get indexed regardless within a few weeks, unless you totally block them, so why have it sitting there with no content? Just write a short article on what your site is about, that's it. I have a ton of domains that are just parked but I write at least a small article for each homepage. Don't throw adds on it, only content until you officially launch your website.
I keep my sites hidden from the search engines until they are completely built and have at least one article. Then, be sure that you are updating with new content regularly. It is a good idea to have a number of blog posts waiting in the queue so you can post at will.
It sounds like the majority say to wait until a website is done before making it live. But after a bunch of research, I guess I disagree and lean towards knight1's strategy- a website is never done so make it live now. All I'm talking about it posting 2-3 pages of unique content and leaving it to marinate in the search engines for 6 months to a year, vs. have a 10-20 page website released all at once in a year from now. From my experience, it seems there's huge advantage in an older domain that already indexed and has a history. So, for every one of my domains, I'm going to put a couple quick pages of unique content and get them indexed and then some time down the road develop them or sell them, probably developing the ones that start to rank in analytics for keywords. Maybe autoblogging or heck, I even used linkvine on a brand new domain and even though that site delivers total spam and non-unique content, I started getting 50 visits a day. I suppose after doing that for all domains, after a year or two some with traffic and keyword ranking potential would be prime for development. I'll just plan to sow the seed early, just like a farmer.