Building Links For a Site that isn't Live Yet

[Buzliteyear]

Okay, let's say that next Monday you are launching a brand new, 1000 page website which you have spent months crafting and tweaking.

There is not one link going to you. Links will be the key to this potentially massively successful site.

You are now ready to begin your campaign to get links.

What do you do?

[jdancing]

You should have started link dev while the site was being built. Hopefully you had at least a few of your own links pointed to a coming soon page to get the sandbox ticking.

Sounds like you have a lot of catching up to do. All you can do is trade, buy, barter, and beg for links.

[graywolf]

Ouch, yea you definitely should have started getting links in a while back.

You're best bet is to do something viral that will get you attention. If you can get the attention of the blogosphere and get lots of one way links in you have a shot.

Otherwise it's going to have be slow build, I'd say 6-9 months minimum. Buying advertsing links will speed up the process, but buying 20,000 links or a few massive ROS links will get you a trip straight to the sandbox.

[Buzliteyear]

ORIGINAL POSTER

Hey,

I only put the scenario as a hypothetical to get an idea of what you guys would do.

While I have a new website which I am working on, I still have several months before it will be ready.

Thanks and keep the ideas coming.

[martinibuster]

Just my opinion, but I would recommend you put up some content, at least three or four pages of it, before you start any kind of link development.

A welcome page, a company page, a contact page, an about us page, a faqs page about the service or product you intend to provide.

To be safe that the links will credit, I wouldn't advocate pointing links to a holding page, but I guess that's better than no page at all. In any case, many directories might not accept a submission of a one page placeholder. So the above pages will help you get directory submissions done.

[Crush]

Get someone to point a pr6 + at it asap. Should have done that 6 months ago :)
I do make holding pages and just put a graphic with a link directory. Works a treat. I got rankings for some page with a good term and do not have time to put content there. I wish i could think ahead even further as I got 50 or so sites on the back burner and need to think of links already.

Actually people will link to your site now. People with no pr themselves. Just make sure the their pages are cached by google. If they are also actively seeking links they will also have pr next update.I think people are less demanding on pr these days anyway from what my staff tell me.