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    • Jazee
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      It can take some time for a new business website to get picked up by all the search engines and indexed.

      Let's assume it's going to take a month to build your new full-fledged business website.  Would it be advantageous in the mean time to immediately launch the domain with an introductory website using a template site so you might have just two pages, a home page with logo, title, brief description of pages, a couple images, etc and a contact page. Would this help give the site a "jump start" on being indexed?

      Or could that do more harm than good by putting up something "quick & dirty" versus the complete website with much more content, that has been SEO optimized?

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        I don't believe that it "hurts" to put up a temporary site.  However, if it subtracts from your time of getting your real site up then that is a sacrifice.

        I would rather put up the first few pages of my real site a day or two early than get a temporary site up a week before.

        The only exception is that I would want something up ASAP if I knew that important people were looking for me.

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