Comments on: Before the launch of a new site

By: steve

steve — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:43:11 +0000

Hi,nI would take forever to do something one site i got the domain for sat for over a year before i got a site put on it.nnNow developing it further and getting links and the like thats another story.nnA work in progress i would say.nnsteve

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:05:12 +0000

It'll be interesting to keep an eye on that theory, you never know what you may be onto

By: Jalaj

Jalaj — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:17:28 +0000

Yes PR on Google toolbar is grandparents story now… from what I have observed in last 6 months after verifying to Google Webmaster is that your traffic from Google (80% of mine is from Searches, perhaps mostly from Google) increase or decrease as and when links in Google Webmaster Tools are updated. So I feel its now here to replace the toolbar

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:35:22 +0000

Jalaj, I agree on the addition to the webmaster tools. Get the search engines knowing about it, bit like a prelaunch buzz. I wouldn't be so concerned on the time in relation to a PR update. PR makes no difference to your rankings or traffic and afterall, PR is always updating, you just don't see what Google sees on the toolbar.

By: Jalaj

Jalaj — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:09:45 +0000

I think before the site is actually disclosed formally, it should go through addition to webmaster tools, indexing.. and back-links should be created after you make it live (disclosed)… and New site should be launched 3-4 weeks before expected PR update date (that would be difficult to predict now with last update loosing expected dates)

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:28:56 +0000

Gary, cheers for the link. Had a brief read of the page and will have a listen to the video when I've got a chance

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:22:57 +0000

Pauls new tool at http://www.domainnameager.com is handy for this exact need

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:49:17 +0000

Hey Will, good point about perhaps having some relevant content. Maybe a brief about page that doesn't go into too much detail but gives an insight into what the new site will be about.nnThanks for your input

By: Will

Will — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:25:43 +0000

As far as I'm concerned, holding pages with an inbound link or two from an already indexed page is a very useful method of getting a website known to a search engine.nnWebsite age can be demonstrated to be significant factor and it makes good sense to have it so.nnTherefore, it follows on that it makes good sense to get the website known as soon as possible, preferably with some sort of relevant content so that it might still be useful for anyone stumbling upon it.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:04 +0000

Hey Russell, thanks for your comment. The focus of the post was actually about getting your domain known to Google even before a site is on it, not about ranking afterwards. Seems the comments have gone off on a tangent now!