: How to add a holding page in front of a domain I have set up a holding page to announce a new version of a website coming soon. I wanted people to still be able to access the original

@Ravi8258870

The internal and external links to your site will no longer display the content which got you indexed and ranked in the search engines, so that's not a good solution as you suspect.

If you want to make announcement for a new website, you'd do much better to add that to your previous content, either through a blurb under "News", or if you were really intent on making visitors aware of it, you could use a lightbox, which can be implemented in the original home page and require visitors to click on to see the home page.

You should note however that now that your SERP has been affected, you'll have to restore your site to its original location, resubmit your sitemap, and request for search engines to crawl it again to potentially regain your rankings (hopefully) while you develop your new website.

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