Why doorway pages used?

[jaysh4922]

I heard that doorway pages are very useful to get ranking in less time. Is that true? Should I use them?

[puneet3214]

Doorway page are created for spam indexing in search engine. Doorway pages that redirect visitors without their knowledge use some form of cloaking. This usually falls under Black Hat SEO.

[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.

[mani ge3e]

Quite simply, doorway pages are pages that have been optimised to rank highly on the search engines for one or two particular keywords. Nowadays, you often hear people saying that it is a very bad idea to create doorway pages – even though there is nothing wrong with the basic technique. At SoftwarePromotions, we steer clear of the illegitimate, software-generated doorway pages that have been the source of so much confusion. Instead, we create doorway pages that are perfectly acceptable to people and search engines alike – legitimate, readable, content-filled doorway pages.

But doorway pages can get you punished – can’t they?

The type of doorway page that is designed to trick the search engines into giving your website a high ranking is certainly a bad idea, and could definitely land you in trouble. In the past, doorway pages were abused by many website owners who let software create hundreds of nonsensical, keyword-packed pages simply to trick the search engines into believing that their site was more relevant than it actually was. The search engines soon got fed up with the huge amount of doorway pages that were filling their databases, and started removing them and sometimes banning the sites that used them.

[nancy07]

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.

[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.

[sadianisar]

Doorway pages are one of the Black Hat SEO technique so its not recommended to perform. Doorway pages are used for spam indexing purpose.