There are many advantages to having a proper “coming soon page”, the main reason is for their search engine friendliness. Since a domain’s age is one of the many factors Google uses in its algorithms, a coming soon page is a good way to mark your presence early on, while you’re working on your site behind the scene. It also looks better and more professional than the cookie cutter holding page. (And note we’re not referring to the dot com under construction holding pages)

A few other reasons to use “coming soon pages”:

* builds trust with almighty Google
* creates buzz … i.e. in the case of silverbackapp.com
* gets volunteers to help you beta test the site/app
* allows early birds to sign up for an email alert when the project goes live

So now your convinced and ready to see some great examples of “coming soon” pages, right? Well not so fast, we did some digging and sorry to say, there isn’t a much out there. This may in part, be due to the fact there’s no place to archive these pages, so all this “coming soon” inspiration may just be falling into a digital black hole. But alas, necessity is the mother of invention so we’ve put together this starter post, and created a public Flickr Group to serve as creative juice for all, and in hopes designers and creative types will share their best examples.

Here are 4 Examples of “Coming Soon” pages we did find:

{1} silverbackapp.com

The design of this page is unbelievable and I love the simplicity. First seen on the Andy Budd’s blog.

{2} adegga.com

I dug this one from the net’s archive pages, the play on the branding tone from the guys at adegga.com is great.

{3} Hema.nl

Takes a few seconds to start, but cool effect using flash. The holding page is live at the time of writing this post.

{4} aka.jp

Interesting. Thanks to “threeminds” for sharing this. Click here to view. You’ll want to have your speakers turned on.

{5} sososher.com

Great way to build up anticipation for a new project launch.

And the following are Chama related projects:

{6} filmz.pt

Filmz.pt is a Chama project in collaboration with Chief Bakery Geek and currently in stealth mode.To be continued…

{7} marco-construction.com

This is a Chama client project, which will be launching very soon.

{8} mosesmehraban.com

This explains it self.

If you’d like to share your examples of “coming soon pages”, leave a comment with a link to it or head over to the Flickr Coming Soon pages group.