How to implement a temporary splash page?

[TKSearchGuy]

Hello - Our company will soon be launching a major product enhancement and we have discussed using a splash page when a visitor hits our homepage to promote the launch.  I'm thinking something similar to what Apple did on Apple.com to announce addition of The Beatles catalog ot iTunes.  I've never actually implemented anything like this before and wanted to get feedback from the community on how best to handle this from an SEO perspective.

Thanks,

Jason

[DavidKauzlaric]

With how great the indexing and reindexing rates out with Caffeine, I would not worry too much about it. I would try and keep the title tag and meta desc the same, but changing your actual page to show a splash page wont hurt anything, unless you plan on it being a splash page for more than a month?

I've used this many times before and never had an issue!

[TKSearchGuy]

Thanks David - good to know.  We haven't finalized the plans, but my intention was to only use this for 1 day max.

[DavidKauzlaric]

Then definitely not an issue, Apple does this like you said, all the time! So do many others!

[KeriMorgret]

How did the splash page work for you? Any lessons learned that will be helpful for others in the SEOmoz community? Would be great to see a comment about how things went.