Inherent SEO benefits and integration with Yoast SEO and Jetpack Photon, plus instructions on getting your site indexed Google before it goes live to give you SEO head start...
You have full control over all aspects of your coming soon page, including the image title, subtitle, and text include your social icons and links options to collect emails and show Google map.
You can also set the opacity giving you the ability to subdue your image and make your text and call to action pop more...
Our coming soon plugin plays with Yoast SEO and doesn't output all of that SEO data on your coming soon page.
Instead, we output SEO information that will help your site rank well and look good in SERPs without any risk of getting deeper pages in the site indexed before they're ready...
So even if someone or spider tries to load any page on your site, they'll be redirected to your home page and shown the coming soon message.
Then, still Search Console, click on your URL, in the menu click Crawl > Fetch as Google.
We recommend hosting your site on HTTPS as best practice because it's secure and is positive ranking signal to Google.
Here's the idea collect emails on your coming soon page, then when deactivating the plugin, you have the option to send email to these users letting them know the site is now live.
You can still collect emails on your coming soon page, but you'll need to import them when you're ready to send email blast.
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