Set Placeholder Page ASAP or Wait For Full Website?

[Jazee]

It can take some time for a new business website to get picked up by all the search engines and indexed.

Let's assume it's going to take a month to build your new full-fledged business website.  Would it be advantageous in the mean time to immediately launch the domain with an introductory website using a template site so you might have just two pages, a home page with logo, title, brief description of pages, a couple images, etc and a contact page. Would this help give the site a "jump start" on being indexed?

Or could that do more harm than good by putting up something "quick & dirty" versus the complete website with much more content, that has been SEO optimized?

[EGOL]

I don't believe that it "hurts" to put up a temporary site.  However, if it subtracts from your time of getting your real site up then that is a sacrifice.

I would rather put up the first few pages of my real site a day or two early than get a temporary site up a week before.

The only exception is that I would want something up ASAP if I knew that important people were looking for me.