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Getting Your Site Indexed Before You Launch
site-reference.com — I've noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live.
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- Psychobel, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Yep, you're right. We use similar techniques but hadn't thought of the feedburner element. We will do that now
- donpooley, on 10/12/2007, -23/+1Great ideas, Adam! Especially as I was just thinking about starting a new site. Thank you, Adam. Your suggetions are valuable and much appreciated.
Don Pooley (http://www.eTIP.ca) - Kilroy2004, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Respectable hints.
This is common sense, but this is what you should be doing AFTER your site has launched as well as before.
If I had one negative comment, it would be the fact that the title is misleading - your website has already launched if you are doing these steps. It is just not launched in a 'final form.' I would also say that depending on your site, advertising its existence before it launches can put you into the category of, "Well, this would be cool, but it's under construction. Too bad."- Spookster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. I thought this was going to be about ways of getting your pages indexed BEFORE they are publicly available.
(If that's the aim, perhaps one idea might be to checking the user agent of anyone visiting, and if they identify as, say, 'googlebot', let them see the not-yet-launched site.) - richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Spookster, that would be cloaking - and a way to get your site banned before launch.
- r2d7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@ Kilroy - it is possible for a website to be live and unlaunched (officially) at the same time.
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most of these ideas are good, and should be common sense.
I disagree, however, with the "Coming Soon" idea. I'm an SEO and in my opinion, your first exposure to a search engine should never be "Coming Soon" or anything other than your actual content. If it's not ready, do not launch it. It's pretty much as simple as that.
- Spookster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. I thought this was going to be about ways of getting your pages indexed BEFORE they are publicly available.
- charter, on 10/12/2007, -30/+4Nice article, great idea. There certainly have been times where I have had an idea for a site and could have done the basics you have outlined. My site would have been way ahead by the time I finally got around to building it.
Thanks
charter
http://www.egolfpost.com- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2not only that, your comment is completely useless.
"let me pretend i am a part of this conversation, so I will talk for quite a bit, talking in circles and saying nothing, nether adding nor deterring from the actual matter at hand. oh, and for good measure, i will sign this comment like i would a formal letter.
btw, SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM"
- rebz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2not only that, your comment is completely useless.
- britkev1, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Some good tips and useful information.
- hackaroxp, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Very cool & useful.
www.redr.wordpress.com - sargant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I like how an SEO article brings out all the sig-link spammers. Strangely appropriate.
- Kamino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13They forgot to add "submit lame obvious articles to large sites to digg.com for higher pageranking".
- mhite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Not so clever spam for that AdSense video training... ugh.
- ChuckRoastHere, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2if you do that you get idiots crying spam, which is the typical digg users excuse for not likeing a story
- ChuckRoastHere, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1see what i mean?? I was dugg down for that comment.. Guess the truth hurts... If someone links to a site that sells nothing nor has any ads on it... its not spam people...
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's spam if you're promoting your site when it has nothing to do with the topic.
It's usually good practice if you're linking to your own site to put a disclaimer that it's yours, and perhaps explain why it's relevant. Otherwise all you're doing is trying to boost your Google rank. If I'm reading the comments for a story, I don't want to be distracted by a whole bunch of stupid sites that have nothing to do with the topic. - DracoFlameus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Absolutely. This whole "Lets boost my google rank" thing is totally annoying.
And what do u mean with typical "excuse"... It's the free choice of every digg user if he/she likes a story or not ... there is nothing to excuse. I think the truth is that u r actually annoyed because none of ur submitted stories ever made it to frontpage ^^
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is a bad idea.
While there are benefits of being included at launch, it's not so good when your holding page stays in the index after you launch, and your nice new content doesn't get added until the next update, which could be a long wait.- Kamino, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Definately. Google has a memory like an elephant. I hate to say it but I think directory submission is the best solution, really. I stumbled across a paid service and all client websites had like pagerank 4. (and crappy content)
- geekworking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When you go live with the full site, just put in a permanent redirect to the sites final page. Visitors will get to the right page from the search engine links and when the search engine gets around to re-spidering your site it should replace the page in its index with the new one with no penality for duplicate content.
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1geekworking, that's not the problem, it's the amount of time Google takes to update it's index.
A site I launched a few weeks ago still has the holding page in Google, even though the googlebot comes around daily.
- volcomjerk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Correction: "Getting Your Site Index Before You Launce"
- stepnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought the "bookmark at del.ico.us" link at the bottom was their final hint...
I guess it wouldn't hurt. - loganz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i usually never go back to sites with 'under construction' or 'coming soon' variants posted on them. it reminds me of the mid 90's when every single site on the web had one of those under construction animated gifs on top of all their pages... you all know which ones i am talking about.
And i definately would not give out my e-mail to a website with the above. - Webwonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is really basic stuff. Register a domain for your web site? Not sure at all why this is getting dugg. The summary way oversold the content.
- AaronSSU, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0This is great stuff, I never really thought about using feedburner, since I don't use it myself, but I'm going to try to give it a shot on http://digg.c3k.net . Thanks for sharing this information.
- 7methods, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Here are a few more tips:
1. Put Adsense on your blog.
2. Use Google Sitemaps
3. Use the Google Toolbar.
4. Use the Alexa Toolbar.
5. Tag it on social bookmarking sites. - dreameyn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I wonder if people actually read the article before digging, there's nothing new here and in fact doing these might do more harm than good. First impression is very important and if you have nothing working but only a few blog post promising what's coming nobody will really care, let alone give you their email for your marketing, afterall you cannot be trusted at this point of the game.
Getting indexed early doesn't mean your site will be returned upon targeted keywords. There will be no real benefits without content, thus this whole article is nothing but a waste of time. Instead of wasting time doing these (lame) preparation, why not spend time enhancing site design and content for a good launch that will turn your first time visitor into long time user?
The bottom line is nobody cares about site under construction. - mcdrewbie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How about just make a site with good, worthwhile content. If it deserves to be ranked highly, than it probably will be. It just takes time.
- queenofvondonia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This article is about "How to Get Your Site Indexed Before Launch". It’s not "how to get visitors" or "how to get your visitors to return" or whether you are adverse to under construction sites. This article may be "basic" to some but others don't have a clue as to how to get a site indexed or how to promote it. It's a great idea to get the ball rolling ASAP as far as getting indexed is concerned.
I like this article because it shares useful information in a step by step manner without all the fluff. Actually, it’s a lot of great FREE information that I have seen others try to make into an ebook and sell for $20.00 to $40.00. One reason that I have always loved the web is the willingness of people to share what they know in order to help others. Too bad the practice is not as prevalent as it used to be. The web is becoming more and more commercial everyday.
This article is a great freebie and will assist many that not only don't have a clue as to how to get their sites into the search engines, but how to do it while they are still perfecting their sites.
Thanks to the author for the great tips! - ozwebfx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Thanks for the tip on feedburner, the rest is sound advice.
- j00papa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice advice. I wish some people who post comments would realize that this sort of info is not common Knowledge to ever one on the web. With digg continuing to grow in users the level of user must be broadening. Keep up the good work daoustmark.
- M0b1u5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hmmm. Maybe the highly intelligent person responsible for this article needs to find out about the Google Age-Delay feature. This prevents any new domain name being indexed and listed with any authority in the first 6 months of going live. This is to prevent domain spammers from using multiple domains to span a single site, or to create so many links between "fake" domains that the google PageRank is spammed into providing BS rankings.
So - no - this doesn't work with Google unless your domain is already 6 months old - by which time it will be well and truly indexed. Kinda stupid really.
It's like these SEO companies that charge $70,000 to do a job which takes one guy about 2 days work, and none of it technical. Fusking useless. And the people who hire them: retarded.- murtlest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"6 months"? That can't be true, I've got several domains indexed that are "younger" than 6 months.
- lerchmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Some of these comments seem a little bit overzealous. This IS common knowledge that you can find in a million places. Get a domain name??? Pinging blog directories is good but you dont need an rss feed and feedburner for that, just use pingoat.com or similar till your up and running. And getting a holder page indexed will do more harm than good in my opinion..
- MyLongTail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Didn't you hear? Everything is common knowledge to the Digg community, and everything having to do with a marketing story is spam? The story has to be about how to get the latest odd distribution of Linux running on your car, cellphone or sneakers in order to be "real" news.
- Kailash.Nadh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lame stories like this shouldn't be getting on the frontpage, seriously.
- Aquilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google page rank is really just a small variable in the entire ranking algorithm, it might be worth reading the papers released by the research teams.
Content is king - if you have no content on your site, then it's hard for the search engine to do anything with it. - pro01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0okay, i used some of the tips and they are useful, but i myself also don't like the idea submitting a site that is under construction, as often happens with sites submitted to design galleries. what am i supposed to see on this site? anyway, these tips are useful. but only when you went all the not-so-long way of getting your site indexed. after all, it does not take THAT much time and your first visitors will definitelly not be ones that found your site on Google, because if you expect that to happen, you'll be pretty disappointed with the results.
but since most people in the discussion seem to know much tips and tricks about dragging visitors to a certain site, why don't you share or point some useful resource on that topic that will help avoiding spending huge budgets on SEO stuff, which is useless if your site provides enough content that can be searched. - allonline, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Best Practice for Small Business - Persuasive Copywriting SEO. If you'd like to pull in more sales and more profits with every web marketing piece you create, check out this powerful promise from Bob Serling, the leading expert on high-profit, low-cost marketing...
click to continue http://www.copywritingtip.com/ - rocks123, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0But is this necessary to get indexing of a website before its launch? I don't think so.
- valwardon, on 02/25/2008, -0/+0Hmm not a big fan of submitting before site launch myself . Bad idea . I believe in general seo is only a long term solution . Better to start seo than while you are seoing buy your traffic . That is my oppinion . Use the money you gain from your traffic to start an adwords campaign . Be careful of alot of ppc some of them are frauds . But in the begging if you buy some traffic use money earned from traffic to buy some adword keywords you should do fine . I actually recomend http://www.freshsitetraffic.com I have used them many times I started with 10k traffic package . Now i am at 100k real visitor package . It is targeted as well.
hope that helps .
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