Hello Friends, I want to know about Doorway pages... do you have any idea about this .. and how to create doorway pages ? is there any tool to create it?
Doorway pages are a violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines. So as the previous poster responded, it is considered blackhat. But it can be a successful way to get long tail traffic. If you have a list of all cities in all 50 states in XML or a DB, it's quite simple to generate a set of pages (virtual pages using URL rewriting OR static HTML pages) for each state AND each city in each state. For example, if I want to rank for "Mortgage Rates in <insert state>" and/or "Mortgage Rates in <insert city>, <insert state>" then you might create a state page template and a city/state page template from which you generate thousands of state and/or city/state pages. The code simply fills in the blank w/ city and state names, city and state URLs, etc. The content generated is VERY similar (only different typically by city and state/state abbreviations. So almost all of them are likely flagged in the indexing algorithm as duplicates. But this can easily be overcome w/ a few inbound links. These tend to work well IMO at least for a while (sometimes months or years, sometimes indefinitely), especially if you have multiple related sets of doorway pages targetting slightly different long tail phrases and interlink the sets. But if you get reported or if one of Google's Quality Raters stumbles onto them, they will typically flag them as spam and bury them in the SERPs w/ something like a -60 penalty. But I SEO a large authoritative and, more importantly, a "trusted" domain. So the rules may be different for me than for a small web site.
lol ,Doorway pages is just voilation of google TOS because it's just made for SEPR not for user so stay away from it !!!!!!!!!!
Doorway pages are good for PPC but when you use them for SEO, ther usually trigger the duplicate content flag and get graybarred. Otherwise it's just a dynamic content page. What will piss Google off, is if you redirect off of it. This usually uses cloaking or server-side redirects.
thanks for your reply .. how to use it for ppc? and can we remove it after using? and how can we know that doorway page is working on your site? is there any way to know it? please answer it...
It's blackhat, tricking search engines into believeing that it has all the great seo qualities, but when users click on it, they are actually entered into another page.
Every page is a doorway. Study your server logs. See what obscure search terms are bringing people to your site(s). Write a page for each search term. Wash, rinse, repeat. Soon you will have a true authority site generating its own natural inbound links and getting huge amounts of traffic from long tail search terms. There are no shortcuts.
I use a doorway page as a review page. This gets people into the buying mode rather than just sending them to a sales page where they have no idea what they are getting. My coach explains what the whole deal is with it I just took that much out of it because that's all I was really worried about.
if you use a tool to create thousands of doorway pages, you'll shoot right to the top of the search engine listing IF ... it is 1999. Otherwise, you'll get banned so fast, your keywords won't even touch the index.
Welcome back to 1998! Doorways worked great for many years, but believe me, today it's an totally outdated technique that's discovered and penalized with a kick from the SERPs within a matter of days (weeks if you are lucky). If you want to use blackhat methods, at least make sure they are up to date. Getting no traffic and killing a domain at the same time doesn't make much sense.
Its too risky to use it... be careful Right? is there any way to increase traffic and page rank? .. just like doorway working..
There are no shortcuts. If you want a site to rank, you have to earn it. Best in class is exactly that. Cheating may bring short term benefits, but in the long run you will get burned. Every page is a doorway, and each adds to the quality of the site. Enough high quality doorways and pretty soon you become best in class. At that point it is easy to get links and ranking.