Getting links to parked page before site is ready

good idea?

[tkroll]

I have a new site, which will be ready in a month. The domain is parked with my host.

Would it be a good idea to start pointing some links to the domain or wait until the site has real content. The parked page has links to deals from my host, etc.

Thanks!

[danmccarthy]

The right answer here? No clue. What I'd do:

Put up a super simple "Site coming soon" page, with a logo if you have it, or just the name of the site if you don't. Then start getting links to it.

I have absolutely NO solid google-theory for this, it's just what I'd do.

[Crush]

yes, good idea, do it. We do it all the time

[justgowithit]

When I decide to launch a new site I always post a "coming soon" page with some decent descriptive content and keywords to support any incoming anchor text links. I back it up with a few standard pages like, about, general overview, etc. After that I do some basic link building to get the site "in the mix".

I don’t devote too much time to this, but I consider it an incubation period that makes it possible to hit the ground running when the site is ready.

I found that this approach greatly reduces the time needed to get decent rank once the site is up and running.

(I will start this process months in advance)

[neuron]

As a rule, I link to new sites/domains ASAP, and usually just throw up a page of general description about what the site will be about. As soon as the site is fleshed out to know what the basic navigational pages will be, I try to throw up a general site nav, with links on every page to every other general site page, and you can link to those as well. I just link to these from other sites I control, to get them indexed, and so that they'll show toolbar PR asap. I don't actually attempt to get links from site outside my dominion before posting actual content to the sites tho.

Why do I go through this? Because there are a lot of people out there, good intentioned as they may be but nonetheless misguided, who believe they should not link to sites/pages that do not show PR.

[tkroll]

Thanks for the info.

I'll get them parked on my server with barebones content and link them with my other sites.