ISP's and accidental spamming

Can it happen?

[webboy1]

This is more out of curiosity because of something I heard over the weekend ...

Obviously when you buy web space from an ISP your space is on servers along with the many other ISP clients.

Normally until you put your own pages online your domain name is given an ISP default page.

If for example the ISP had many "not yet used" acounts with default ISP pages ... could this be classed as duplicate content be SE spiders?

I know some ISP's who put in a default holding page which also include some company advertising.

I am just curious as to whether this repetition in pages could be classed as duplicate / spam content? Especially when the all sit on the same server?

Any ideas on this?

[caveman]

It's an interesting question, but I've never heard of a site on a shared ISP account seeing trouble because it first had a coming soon page ... and there have been plenty of examples in the past that having a coming soon page was a plus, especially if a little well targeted text is involved.

I suppose that there could be issues if a host is redirecting. Have you asked your ISP about it? Can you provide more info on how the pages are set up, e.g. robots.txt, unique title/META/text?

Personally, I'd want to either add some text that let users (and the SE's) know what's coming, OR be able to exclude bots with robots.txt.

If you're concerned, why not put up a coming soon page of your own, asap?