How good is Google’s memory?

[badgering]

I’m still at the stage where I’m testing out this industry. I have a couple of sites, 1 throw away and one I’m trying to build up for real. The thing is, i’m impatient, I’m basically working on my main site live, I do an hour or two a day and check in on the site every minute of the day! Anyway, my point is, am I destroying the future of this site? I know about 100 things that are wrong with the site, from SEO to usability issues, but id rather have it live now than fix everything and put it up next year. I’m not doing anything black hat, but will google flag my site as crap because of the millions of little things that don’t make it that professional? If so, when I fix all these thing, can I recover?

cheers

[topr8]

you have no problem.

i think the earlier it is live the better, warts and all ... not all here will agree with me though.

there is nothing wrong with continually tweaking and updating your site.

[jbinbpt]

Hi badgering,
Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Sites are always evolving. You can't wait for it to be finished, because there is no finished.

The sooner you get it up and running, the sooner it will be in the serps. I suggest making only small changes at a time and working on inbound links. That is the key to good results.

Don't worry too much about the little things. Validate your code and fix as many as possible.

Good luck

[badgering]

Cheers guys,

Ive been live now for 2 weeks and im getting about 30 visits / 200 page views per day. So its going well so far :)

Im an affiliate, so trying to build some good content pages before i get thoes inbound links.

Ive got issues like dup content, 2000 pages to index but G only sees 1000. Im aware of how to fix these, but i cant do it all in one go. So as long as G doenst penalize me in the long run.

Cheers for your comments everyone, im trying to remember all the 1000s of SEO questions ive had before i joined WebmasterWorld. So look out for them!

[jbinbpt]

It will always be an ebb and flow with all the search engines. Keep adding content and links, the rest will take care of itself.