RaraAvis - 8:33 pm on Nov 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Howdy folks!

We were talking the other day in staff meeting about our development projects and SEO. Because we do both web development and SEO, many times it takes several months from the time we get a project to the time when we're ready to begin SEO. My question is this:

What are your thoughts about building the "welcome" or "holding" pages w/ 250 +/- word of "good content" and begin some basic hand submissions coming to at least that one page. Maybe we could build a simple contact form as well. If we use "real" content w/ "real" keywords, etc...would that at least help us get a jumpstart on the spidering process?

OR

Will that hurt us because some of these spiders will come to the site and see it's only 1-3 pages?

We all sit back and check our web stats to see what spiders are visiting our sites and how often, etc...I'd just like to begin the process of being indexed prior to having the entire site live and then...WHAMMMM...one day the spider will come and the site's there and it can begin to index the live site immediately.

I began thinking this way when you see how much more quickly pages get indexed and ranked when we optimize existing sites rather than brand new ones. I'm just wondering if the extra few months of being "live" and submitted will help once the final content is up.