(Entry was posted by Mateusz Mucha on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 03/13/2016).

Would it be OK to have some content-less pages?

Would it be OK to have some content-less pages?

We`re about to launch a website with many tools. They`re usually self explanatory and are useful to users without any accompanying content, but of course we`re writing nice articles for all of them.

The thing is, we have 120 tools ready, but content is lagging behind. I`d say we`ll have 60% of them ready at launch. My plan was to simply not publish those contentless tools until the content is ready, but I`d rather give users more tools to play with right away.

Can I get in trouble if I have 40% of my pages with just titles and a few words (labels in tools` forms)?

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Mateusz Mucha: Would it be OK to have some content-less pages?

We're about to launch a website with many tools. They're usually self explanatory and are useful to users without any accompanying content, but of course we're writing nice articles for all of them.

The thing is, we have 120 tools ready, but content is lagging behind. I'd say we'll have 60% of them ready at launch. My plan was to simply not publish those contentless tools until the content is ready, but I'd rather give users more tools to play with right away.

Can I get in trouble if I have 40% of my pages with just titles and a few words (labels in tools' forms)?
Federico Sasso: How about noindex them until they are ready?
(and of course remember to remove the noindex when they are)
Mateusz Mucha: +Federico Sasso: sounds interesting, didn't cross my mind. Can you think of any disadvantages of it? For example, is it possible I'll have problems to get these pages indexed when I remove the noindex meta tag?
Federico Sasso: Not really :)