: Add site to search engines, even though not ready yet I'm building a website, and until it's done, visitors will see a "This site will launch on new year's day 2015", and a description of

@Hamaas447

You can submit your website right away. Just make sure that pages which are not ready have a robots meta tag set to noindex,noarchive. When a page is ready, remove its robots meta tag.

You can already put all your pages in a sitemap.xml too to make sure web crawlers already know about your pages and revisit them from time to time. However, search engines won't index them while the robots meta tag is set.

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@Angela700

There's no harm in making the site public with a holding page including details of launch.

This is quite common and will have no negative repercussions when you do open the whole site up to everyone.

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@BetL925

You can submit the site to search engines before your site is ready in order to set the domain age as older as possible (positive effect on SEO in the long term).

However, I wouldn't do it 6 months before. 1 or 2 months before the launch could be a good compromise. Think about creating the buzz about your site during this period and try to launch your site as soon as possible.

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