When your website has been indexed by Google and not completed
Published on March 17, 2018
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When your website has been indexed by Google and not completed, how should you feel? My site is still under construction. I'm following the training to the letter and have thought to myself, "is this a good or bad thing" to be indexed before completing my website? Should the website have an "Under Construction" or "Coming Soon" pages? I know that indexing and ranking are different terms, because without being indexed you will not be ranked period.
Having just completed my second blog to post, my Home Page needs to be published. As for now my blog 'About Me' post is the default home page. I estimate it will be two more weeks before the site is finished and functional because I'm still working on the training lessons and contributing as much as possible to the community, something I like to do.
In earlier days, I would build my websites offline writing the HTML and when completely finished use FTP (file transfer protocol) to upload and publish the completed website to my domain. The website was functional and ready to go when published. Visitors would see a finished product.
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Not being very familiar with Word Press but learning quickly, it has crossed my mind about using Word Press to create my website offline and publish after completion. I have read articles stating Word Press can be used "off-line" for this purpose but I'm not so sure this would be worth the trouble.
I'm trusting in what the lessons are instructing me to do and taking my time to do exactly that. The advantage to publishing blogs or content first is, you have the heavy work finished with more blogs to come later, but your site is just a one or two page blog at this point. If your blogs are effective at attracting visitors what then?
Let's say, you have a niche product to offer and no hyperlinks or take action links to select. That's not a good thing. Call to action links can be included in your blogs but I haven't decided to do that for now.
What were your thoughts when you experienced your first index by Google? Did any of the same questions or thoughts I experienced cross your mind? Did you take a different approach to building your website? Are you including take action links in your blogs?
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