Re: Hosting Co Holding Page

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed richdaviesdotcom (AT) googlemail (DOT) com
writing in news:29d3a2e8-6219-4b15-9879-4b3a23f90e46
@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:

Hi All,

I've just registered a new domain, and as expected when I type the
address
in the browser, I get the Hosting Co's holding page. I'm nowhere near
ready
to go with site content. Am I better to just leave the holding page,
or
should I upload a more on topic page from a long term SEO perspective
(Does
the Hosting Co's page cause any long term prob's?)

What do you guys normally do ?

I usually put something up, business card type information. Of course,
if this is for a client without a site at all, most of the site is
already done on a test server, and once the domain name and hosting is
secured, the files from the test server are uploaded to the new server.
I have had instances where the test server is showing in the SERPs
before the new site is uploaded. Then it's just a matter of putting up
a 301 on the test server.

--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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richdaviesdotcom (AT) googlemail (DOT) com wrote:

I've just registered a new domain, and as expected when I type
the address in the browser, I get the Hosting Co's holding page.
I'm nowhere near ready to go with site content. Am I better to
just leave the holding page, or should I upload a more on
topic page from a long term SEO perspective

I'd start uploading the content as soon as there's anything that does not
look totally silly; the sooner the SEs get familiar with it, the easier SEO
will be when the time comes.

But that time has not come yet. Get ONE link to the new site from an indexed
site, but do not start active promotion until you have enough content for
the site to be useful; don't waste people's time by inviting them until
there's something to invite them to!
--

Andrew
seo2seo.com
sick-site-syndrome.com

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