Under Construction Pages - Google Sandbox?

Question

Hello YH, I'm wondering if someone who knows about SEO can give me some advice?

I've recently registered a .com and .co.uk where .com is the server and .co.uk is a 301 that redirects to the .com server.

I know it's really bad, probably meaningful practice, to use Under Construction pages but here's what I've coded into my index.php file:

Under Construction

Please check back soon!

I think I read somewhere Google uses what is called a Sandbox Mode, whereby a site is first analysed for a few month before being submitted into Google's search results.

So my question is how can I let Google know my site is under construction and when it's complete it will be about computer articles and is there any better code than the HTML I've posted?

Kind Regards
Mike

Answer 1

The sandbox may not really exist anymore, I don't kow for sure that an empty page will be worst than no site at all, but as a rule such pages hurt a site's overall ranking. You could use a robots.txt file instructing the search spiders to not index the page.



I would put up some quick temporary content to help ranking, perhaps a couple of related articles from directories like ezineartiles if not original and links to authority sites in the field, just to get the search ranking ball rolling, a site that's been indexed for a few months can accumulate backlinks more quickly without suspicion.

Answer 2

There are a few things that you should know when you are looking to analyze your website.



Once you have done this then see how your website is being optimized, in the sense if you have all the right ingredients in your site that co-relates with your keyword goal. I recommend seocentro.com to do this research.



If you have completed this step, add statcounter and google analytics into your website and start monitoring the kind of traffic you are getting. If you can identify whats working, then you should analyze why it is working. Then mature to the step of whats not working and then when you know why other things are working you can make the non-working keywords to work.



If you are doing Google Adwords, you can perfectly analyse what kind of keywords are most searched and their cost. You can understand the pattern of search from a consumer stand point and implement those things into your SEO campaign.

Answer 3

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