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(Entry was posted by Philip Crothers on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/11/2013).

Should I index or noindex a new site?

Hi, this is probably going to be a rather stupid question, but...

We have a site going up on Monday, that in many ways hasn`t been gotten ready for search. The focus has been on functionality and UX rather than search, which is fair enough.

As a result, I have a big list of things for the developer to complete after launch (like sorting out duplicate pages and adding titles that aren`t "undefined" etc.). 

So, my question is whether it would be better to noindex the site until all the main things are sorted before essentially presenting search engines with the best version we can, or to have the site be indexed (duplicate pages and all) and sort these issues "live", as it were?

Would either method be advisable over the other, or are there any other solutions? I just want to ensure we start ranking as well as possible as quickly as possible and don`t know which way to go.

Thanks so much!
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