At 05:55 PM 6/26/98 -0500, Peter J. Schoenster so eloquently stated: >On 26 Jun 98, at 14:17, Suzanne wrote: > >> To further clarify, the domain name is already set up and all that stuff. >> There just aren't any web pages yet. So what I'm asking is, will they just >> toss the request for indexing? > >A search engine will just go out and spider the site. If there are not pages to >read then nothing will be recorded (or worse). > Why not set up a one page "Welcome to the Future Home of..." And add up 200 words to the pages in simple text that tells what they do and how different they are. Then when it gets spidered your message will be there. Some ISP's (i.e., Netcom) will set up a home page with **their** message on it while you are working on it. George _______________________________________________________ George Matyjewicz, C.M.O. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GAP Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.gapent.com/ Moderator of E-Tailer's Digest http://www.gapent.com/etailer/ Your Resource for Retail on the Net MYWEB - Marketing Your Web mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=MYWEB_Info ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
