What are doorway pages?

[pharmasecure]

What are doorway pages?

[krishnasai]

Doorway pages are defined as low-quality pages (or groups of pages, or entire websites) optimized to rank well for specific keywords that act as a door between users and content. Characteristically, they offer little value to visitors and serve the sole purpose of boosting SEO value.

[mihirthakur]

Doorway pages act likes a teleport from one page to another. often they are misleading.

[traveloweb]

Hi,
Doorways are sites or pages created to rank highly for specific search queries. They are bad for users because they can lead to multiple similar pages in user search results, where each result ends up taking the user to essentially the same destination. They can also lead users to intermediate pages that are not as useful as the final destination.

[Kailash]

An SEO technique, the doorway is meant to capture the attention of a search engine's spider by containing keywords and phrases that the spider will pick up on. Often the doorway page contains hidden text in order to load the page with occurrences of a specific keyword or phrase

[thaichacha]

Doorway Pages, also known as gateway pages, portal pages or entry pages, refer to web pages or websites that are developed for higher ranking when specific search queries are entered. Such pages give way to multiple web pages on the SERP which lead users to the same web destination. These can also funnel the users to intermediate pages that does not hold as much importance as the final webpage. Two common forms of doorway pages are cloaking and redirecting pages.

[RH-Calvin]

Doorway pages are web pages that are created for spamdexing. This is for spamming the index of a search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending visitors to a different page.

[nikki shah]

Doorway pages (bridge pages, portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages or entry pages) are web pages that are created for the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes (spamdexing).

[Saravanan28]

Doorway pages are a way of tricking search engines into putting certain sites at the top of the results list, usually by packing the doorways' HTML code with search terms, code words or links. Often doorway sites are nothing but lists.

[HosTechS]

Doorway pages are web pages which are created for the cautious manipulation of search engine indexes & designed for helping websites improve their traffic.

[sanmishra670]

Gateway pages are teleport pages which may take you to some other irrelevant page.

[dombowkett]

Doorway pages are created in bulk to drive traffic from all possible keywords.