What's a doorway page?

[Pendo]

well?

[cd34]

It is a page designed to be well read by the search engines as an entryway into a site.

[Useless]

A doorway is an entry page for a free site that isn't the site's true index. You see them named index1.html, index2.html, and so on. Sometimes they are named with a keyword rather than numbering them. If you put both an index.htm and an index.html in a free site's directory, both can be considered doorway pages.

It's just a thing submitters do so they can submit to every link list known to man. But it's horribly unpopular amongst most link list owners.

EDIT: That damned Chris guy replied while I was typing.:D My reply is just more frees site specific.

[Pendo]

http://www.worldofanalsex.com/freesites/16/fuck_my_asshole/
http://www.worldofanalsex.com/freesites/16/fuck_my_asshole2/

[Pendo]

are those doorway pages?

[Useless]

Those are mirrors. That's prefered over doorway pages. That way each link list's recip is on a true index.

[beano]

Like UW said, those are mirror sites (entire folders). Doorway pages are just that....single pages. Here's ths difference:

Mirrors:
www.domain.com/folder24/index.htm
www.domain.com/folder25/index.htm

Doorway pages:
www.domain.com/folder/index24.htm
www.domain.com/folder/index25.htm

[Pendo]

great, so I don't have problems with that

[phonesexgoddess]

Hi Guys,

Will Search Engines spot out and eliminate your site from ranking higher due to mirrors and doorways creating the same pages with different names??

[plateman]

Now I am really confused I thought it was a webpage with a picture of a door on it..

Maybe thats why I dont get listed.. |couch|

[Wazza]

They will definately spot it.

As I understand it - and this applies equally to doorways and mirrors (as defined above) - the s/e will pick one for its listings and discard the rest... which is frequently the one it saw/indexed first...

There is a definate chance that you won't get consensus on that issue.