Doorways

tenchi_63 posted this at 19:17 — 24th March 2004.

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There is a concept which I am a little confused about when speaking of doorway pages. When creating one, does its domain have to differ from the one you are linking to? or could you stick it in the same domain as the page you are linking to?
I.E. is it okay to create a doorway under XYZ.com that links to a page in XYZ.com, or should it go from ABC.com to XYZ.com...

Thanks in advance.

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DC_Sara posted this at 20:07 — 24th March 2004.

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Do you mean a portal page?

To me a portal is a gathering of links that lead to other places on the site or other sites.

Suzanne posted this at 20:58 — 24th March 2004.

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Doorways are generally a Very Bad Idea. If you have something to say, say it. Don't lead users or search engines on goofy Alice in Wonderland trips to get to it.

tenchi_63 posted this at 00:22 — 25th March 2004.

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Right, i was just reading something on doorways and had this question. I've never had the need to use doorways, so I had a couple questions about them.

umm...i still kinda need an answer

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Old Socks posted this at 23:01 — 25th March 2004.

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However you do it you are going to get into trouble with the search engines, they don't like doorway pages at all. not only will they not list the doorway page but some of them will not list or even remove the page that it links too.

However if you are still going to ignore the "why bother - wheres the advantages?" advice that everyone has given you, abc.com - xyz.com will give you a better result and will add as a link inwards adding to your pr.

Just make sure your doorway page actually contains some decent content, maybe you'll get away with it.