No, I said my Front Door Pages are not blackhat. Doorway pages definitely are black hat.

My pages do not redirect people to sites other than the one they desired. They deliver the page that appeared in the title, description and URL in the search results (q.v.):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Scranton+plumbers&btnG=Search

There are two blog posts and a Front Door Page for “Scranton plumbers” at the top of the search results. Note that there are no redirects or other deceptive practices used here.

Do not confuse or conflate the two, even if they appear to have similar names. Doorway pages are anathema. Front Door Pages are local business promotion at its best.

In your comment, your mention that doorway pages are not considered blackhat. I would have to disagree.

Googles Words on Doorway Pages:

“Whether deployed across many domains or established within one domain, doorway pages tend to frustrate users, and are in violation of our webmaster guidelines.

Google’s aim is to give our users the most valuable and relevant search results. Therefore, we frown on practices that are designed to manipulate search engines and deceive users by directing them to sites other than the ones they selected, and that provide content solely for the benefit of search engines. Google may take action on doorway sites and other sites making use of these deceptive practice, including removing these sites from the Google index. ”

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355

Front Door Pages are a focal point for a business niche, in a specific locale. For example, I have a Front Door Page for a local music store that I am promoting in the search engines. The poor guy’s website itself was in Google’s “Witness Protection Program” — no matter which keywords you searched for that could have brought him some traffic, he remained invisible!

Do a Google search for “used guitars Scranton” and you’ll see both a blog post and the Front Door Page for this business at the top of the search results.

Notice that there are no “sneaky” redirects or other questionable practices to put these pages in peril of getting de-indexed by Google.

Instead, these pages have all the SEO and backlinking support that I learned doing Direct Response Internet Marketing for my own products and services.

While these Front Door Pages are specifically made for local businesses, the underlying SEO and backlinking methods they employ also work regionally and internationally. That’s because they are based on sound, ethical SEO.