Holding Pages

[swinnie]

Hi Guys,

Last night purchased some website hosting for my grandad's business that he will be starting in March, as he has been made redundant.

I am going to put a holding page onto the website for the time being - basically his logo/launch date.

Is it best to allow this to be indexed by search engines, or is it best to stop the indexing? If so, how?

Many thanks

 

[suarve]

Use a robots.txt file and all <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> to your head.

I personally stop searche enbgines indexing a page until I have all content on there.

 

[swinnie]

Use a robots.txt file and all <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> to your head.

I personally stop searche enbgines indexing a page until I have all content on there.

Yeah that is what I was thinking. Thanks for the method though, was unsure how to do it other than a robots file.

 

[unwashed potato!]

i'm sure i heard different from one of the main guys at google, always forget this guys name but afaik he's like the number one google person right now so someone on here should know who i mean

 

[Tripnologist]

For me, it depends on the content of the holding page. If it's really just a plain logo with text saying coming soon, then no. However, if you have a brief intro about what the website will be about and/or a sign up form, then yes, I do allow it to be indexed.

 

[unwashed potato!]

 

[suarve]

i'm sure i heard different from one of the main guys at google, always forget this guys name but afaik he's like the number one google person right now so someone on here should know who i mean

Matt Cutts?

EDIT: just seen your link, yer it him

 

[suarve]

Guess it's down to personal preference then. If you're revamping a website then a coming soon would definately be good. As for a totally new domain, that people don't know I'd prefer just to get the site and and then get Google indexing it.