Doorway Page

[john515]

Doorway Page is also known as gateway page. A doorway page exists solely for the purpose of driving traffic to another page. They are usually designed and optimized to target one specific key phrase. Doorway pages rarely are written for human visitors. They are written for search engines to achieve high rankings and hopefully drive traffic to the main site. Using doorway pages is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.

[mohamedrafeekj]

Doorway pages also called as hanging page or orphanage pages. No links will be pointing to that page in the site, just will be hanging.

Used mainly for ranking the keywords in a quicker period of time.

[sabrinasai]

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

[watson123]

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. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names. Doorway pages that redirect visitors without their knowledge use some form of cloaking.

[bryanbell]

Doorway pages are usual web pages, which is designed and build mainly to explain the search engine viewers to your website and gain reputation in search engine. They are impartial pages designed only to execute as doorways to your website. It is not a good idea to build a doorway page because it is a form of spamming. It is also referred as jump pages, bridge pages, and gateway pages. It is a black hat SEO method.

[yoscommerce]

Doorway pages are simple to identify in that they have been designed mainly for search engines, not for human beings. This page give details how these pages are delivered technically, and some of the problems they pose.

[jamsen]

Doorway page is also called entrance page, or information. Generally what it means is a web page that specifically designed contains more relavent keywords in a single page in order to rank higher in the spider search engines.

[Rajdeep Bose]

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. If a visitor clicks through to a typical doorway page from a search engine results page, in most cases they will be redirected with a fast Meta refresh command to another page. Other forms of redirection include use of Javascript and server side redirection, from the server configuration file.

[webcreations]

Usage of doorway pages varies considerably, and there are countless other terms used to describe them. The pages themselves range from unique, content-rich pages to generic, keyword-stuffed pages.Doorway pages have acquired something of a bad reputation due to the frequent use (and abuse) of doorways in spamming the search engines. The most flagrant abuses include mass production of machine-generated pages with only minor variations, sometimes using re-direction or cloaking so the visitor does not see the actual page requested. Doorways used in this manner add to the clutter that search engines and Web searchers must contend with.Critics of doorway pages contend that the time & effort spent generating pages would be better spent optimizing pages that are integrated into the content of the Web site, plus producing more content to attract repeat visitors

[seoxoom]

Doorway pages are simple HTML pages that are customized to a few particular keywords or phrases, and they are programmed to be visible only by specific search engines and their spiders.

[adamscot]

According to wikipedia 'Doorway pages' are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names. It is used to redirect visitors without their knowledge use some form of cloaking.

[blessy_smith]

Doorway Pages are web pages designed and built specifically to draw search engine visitors to your website. They are standalone pages designed only to act as doorways to your site. The fact is that doorway pages don't do a very good job of generating traffic, even when they are done by "experts." Many users simply hit their back buttons when presented with a doorway page.Doorway pages also known as landing pages, are pages set up by a black hat SEO webmaster with the sole intention of attracting traffic via search engines, to his website.

[Vamp1re]

Thanks for the posting, really informative post.