: Should I make my website private until I have a lot of content? I have a brand new Blog-type website that will target a specific niche market. I plan to link affiliate products. At the

@Ann8826881

Generally I tell people not to worry too much about things that in the end do not matter. However, I do want to say that it is far better that a site that is reasonably formed and populated show up on the scene than one that is scant. Your site does not have to be huge. Just enough for a search engine to offer search users. Some say that is about 50 posts. I agree, but say why not offer more if you can?

Even if you deploy your site with little in it, at the rate you can write content, search will not matter and you will not actually do any harm. Meaning, that as you develop your content, having little content becomes less of an issue as you go along and any effect of a smaller site disappears over time. By the time you reach a decent number of posts, any negative effect has long disappeared.

I just prefer giving search engines and users something to chew on. I say do not sweat it unless you want to.

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@Berumen354

Read this.


You can optimize your site perfectly, but if you’re not getting any
links from the authorities in your niche, nothing you can do will
raise your ranking. Yes, you can follow black hat strategies to cheat
the system, but for the most part, those strategies fail to work after
a few months, causing your traffic to vanish, and in many cases, they
can even get you banned from Google forever.

Translation:

For beginning bloggers, SEO is largely a waste of time.

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