The search engines that use robots or spiders require the site be
functional, not necessarily live. There's a difference. Does your client
have an IP address yet? If so, you can create an entry page and submit that.
Case in point: I'm in the process of moving my entire site to a new server.
InterNIC has not changed the domain yet, but I still have a static IP for
the new site and have the pages on it, although not all are functioning
properly and not made public (yet). I can submit that site to the search
engines and be accepted using the IP address because it can be reached and
read.
The main thing is to have the index.html page accessable and the search
engines will accept it.
Jim Hutchinson
Virtual Promotions
http://www.virtualpromotions.com (current site)
http://205.231.210.70 (new site)
At 12:55 PM 6/26/98 -0800, Suz wrote:
>Just got an email from a client wanting me to set up file names for his web
>site that hasn't been built yet so that he can go ahead and start
>registering it with the search engines. Can that be done? Or will they
>require the site to be live?
>
>Suz
____________________________________________________________________
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now
Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants
If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done
directly from our website for all our lists.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
