advice on pre-launch setup

[AffiliateDreamer]

so i'm planning this fairly feature rich site that i'm going to be developing, i'm forcasting a good 3-4 months of development on it.

in the meantime, I want to get the domain indexed and rolling so I'm not starting from complete scratch when I finally finish coding the site.

the only idea that i've come up with so far is:

start a blog on the site: www.example.com/blog/

each day, at the very least throw up 1-3 blog entires per day.

keep in mind, the actual content of the site will not be found in the blog once I've finishing coding and officially launched the site.

to me this is the only option, any other ideas?

[mack]

The blog may be a very good idea, especialy if you allow other sites to use your content via rss. This could help out initialy with some traffic and perhaps site awareness. However I would leave any promotion efforts until the site is fully finished.

When you promote your site it is very often best to not submit to search engines at all. Suggest your site to as many web directories as possible and the search engines will find you.

Because of this you will be a lot more sucessfull to start submitting your site to directories once it is finished. Directories are human edited, as a result un-finished sites may not be elegible for a listing.

Mack.

[AffiliateDreamer]

once a site is established and say out of the 'sandbox', once I add the real site with lots of new pages and new file structure (keeping the blog as is ofcourse), any on how long I would be G's index? (i'm thinking this is a very hard and open ended question but hey!)