KoolMoe
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| Search engines have no knowledge of a new domain being registered. You've gotta make it 'live' for the spiders to find.
Whether putting it live now with very generic content or not would help rankings, it depends I think...
When an engine finds your site, how does it rate the site in domain name and content? If sparse and largely irrelevant content is found, does that hurt more than help?
I don't think so, but can't say for sure.
IMO, you should put the sites up with at least one page of a decent amount of relevant content. For the few website side-jobs I get, I put together the design and front page - at least a couple paragraphs and named images.
I then upload that first to get the site on the search engine's radar radar while I build out the rest of the site locally then get that in place when all set.
I don't use 'under construction' animated gifs 
Perhaps at worst, someone finds the site and finds it unhelpful...but I'd hazard getting the site up sooner than later is more important.
KM
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