Coming Soon Page and Discourage Search Engines Do’s & Don’t

  • Seems to be a lot of clashing information on this..

    Whether you should or should not have a coming soon page, and tick or untick the box for discourage search engines from indexing this site.

    I wasn’t even aware of that discourage button till I read about it, I am not a developer, my developer ran away with his new lover and left me in the shit.

    I opened it all up because was told that was best, but my site is only 80% done, all the images need adding, as do more functionality.. Sure those crawlers will have somethign to feast on, but anyone who finds my site won’t.. And will not be impressed. I ave maybe another week..

    I have unticked the discourage box, iand plan to add more key words to comign soon page now, I am unsure if the Supersystic plugin coming soon page has an SEO section, maybe just the wordig on the front that you add?

    Would like to hear best practices please.

    Thanks.

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  • Hi @vanodyssey

    Sorry to hear about your developer situation.

    You might have answered your own question here… “Sure those crawlers will have somethign to feast on, but anyone who finds my site won’t.. And will not be impressed. I ave maybe another week”.

    You are correct in that broken images and an incomplete user interface can quickly create frustration for visitors to your website. At the end of the day, I assume it’s human website visitors you are creating the website for, not bots. I would wait to launch until the content on the website is complete and will not frustrate your human visitors.

    Pre launch, you can use a “coming soon” style splash page. On that page, place a sentence or 2 of text which clearly describes what visitors to the website can expect once the site is complete and live. That should suffice for both search engine bot ‘food’ as well as actual human visitors.

    Hope that helps,
    Jonas

    Thread Starter vanodyssey

    (@vanodyssey)

    Thanks… Yep I added some info on our products and services now thanks.

    There really is a wide debate online about coming soon pages aint there..

    Like you say a robot won’t get personal, a human will.. if they come and there’s no functionality or images then they will not come back.. Hopefully I can keep those bots happy and eager!

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