Dec 11 2008
Doorway Pages, Temporary Success
A doorway page is basically a page built to feed a bunch of text and keywords to a search engine algorithm. On top of the page you’ll find a link to another website, usually the website belonging to the person that made the doorway page, if not produced by a hired black hat SEO consultant. Using doorway pages is grounds for being banned by search engines. You may ask, does it still work? I’ve found it does for some people, for maybe a week depending on keyword competition. When competitors find out your ranking above them, many will look to find out why. If they find you’re using a spam method, eventually one will report your site to Google. Then your site probably has about a week of life left before it drops off the charts. One SEO guy contacted me concerning another site of mine saying he could guarantee my website top placement for 10 localized keywords of my choice for the cost of $1600. You know, for $1600 I could pay some top industry editor to write me up super resource articles on the subject, post them on my blog and reap the white hat benefits. Quality will in most cases outlive any blackhat technique.
Have you ever thought how when someone reports a website to google, google benefits without paying back the person who reported. Its like they have a huge number of spam staff employed that they will never have to pay back, with money anyways. I guess that’s when you know you’ve reached success, when thousands work for your company free of charge.
