Inactivity is driving me crazy

[andrewhawkins13]

I am currently waiting for my website to be built, but I have the domain name. So I have about 2 months to wait. Is there anything I should be doing in terms of SEO and marketing preparation? What will drive the most traffic to my site on launch?

[robousy]

How do you plan to market your site? If you plan to use ads on places like Craiglist and Backpage then you could start preparing them.

Start reading up on how to use Google Analytics.

Read up on web page optimization and start a googe web optimizations account...

Ad Words...

Educate educate educate.

[andrewhawkins13]

Sounds good. I have most of that stuff ready to go. I was hoping to start stuff more along the lines of blogging and such, but its hard with not site to link back to.

[jmeijers]

I suggest reading up on popular SEO techniques. Make an SEO plan, which includes goals (i.e. number of visitors). That way when your site airs, you'll have a good clue about what to do.

[SendBlast]

While you wait, collect the email addresses of the visitors, so you can tell them when the site is open.

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[Goldnote]

I am currently waiting for my website to be built, but I have the domain name. So I have about 2 months to wait. Is there anything I should be doing in terms of SEO and marketing preparation? What will drive the most traffic to my site on launch?

Andrew,
Here's a couple things you could do.

Write Articles - have them ready to submit when site is launched

Write a Press Release- this could be huge depending on the site being launched ex. Unique and News Worthy. Submit when site is launched

Create Social Networking Accounts Now ex. Myspace,Facebook,Twitter

Create Video's to submit when launched

Start gathering contact info from site's in your niche for link exchanges when launched.

About all I can think of right now.

[flippingenesis]

You may want to:

Create several accounts on all the top social sites.
Create articles that talk about your niche to be submitted when you're site is ready. All you need to do is to insert a working domain in your resource box.
Create a list of URLs related to your niche for link exchange.
Line up content to be posted in your social sites.
Create a free report related to your niche if you decide to create your own list through an opt in form.
Create a blog network, at least one to start with.

Hope this helps.

[clp11479]

start backlink building.

[inle]

What are your offerings on your website?

[EntrepreneurCoach]

Get a great profile on linkedin set up...then you add your website to your linkedin profile as well as your blog to your linkedin profile. My linkedin profile drives significant traffic to my website for free.

I posted some tips on how to create a great linkedin profile, I hope this helps.
Many of the key areas are already covered from other responses already, so thought I'd share this as it is something you could work on now.

coachwithjeremy(dot)com/blog/category/linkedin-101-tips

Jeremy J. Ulmer
Entrepreneur Coach
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