A doorway page exists solely for the purpose of driving targeted traffic to another website. They are usually designed and optimized to target one specific keyword phrase and are rarely written for the websites visitors. Doorway pages are considered 'Black Hat' techniques among the Search Engine Marketing industry and by using Doorway pages are violating the Terms Of Service of the major Search Engines and could get your website banned.
A page that is set up for no other reason than to manipulate search engines. Doorway pages use specific keywords to rank highly in search engines and then when surfers click on the link from the search engine, they are automatically redirected to the site that the webmaster really wants them to go to. They are also known as portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages, bridge pages, and by other names.
Doorway is also known as a bridge page. It is always not an important part of the website, but for the purpose of driving traffic.
Sometimes referred to as a Gateway Page or Hallway page, a doorway page is a web page that acts as an entrance to a website, one which is specifically created to rank high on a particular search engine. Dynamic IP Address
A highly optimized page existing solely for the purpose of attracting traffic to the site and created for search engine rather than human consumption. Often the doorway page will redirect visitors to a user-friendly page with a fast meta-refresh.
A doorway is a web page that is used to lead people to the target site. Doorway pages are designed to optimize search engine placement and attract visitors' attention. The problem with doorway page is the misuse by many web site owners to optimize the doorway page with keywords that are not truly relevant to the content of the target site. The use of doorway pages is viewed unfavorably by search engines.
Web pages that are created to rank high in search engines for particular phrases to get you to go through a link to another page. Also known as gateway pages, entry pages and landing pages.
a page optimised for a particular search engine and/or search term, followed by a redirect to the usable page. Multiple doorway pages are often used to help ensure that the same basic content is ranked well on several different search engines. Frowned upon. (aka gateway page)
A web page that is specifically designed to get high rankings. This usually implies a negative impact because of the tricks many unethical SEO professionals use with these pages such as redirects, cloaking, etc...
A web page that is created solely for the purpose tricking a search engine. This page will be very well optimised for a particular phrase or phrases and will have a form of redirection in place once it is found to the 'real' page. Also known as bridge pages, gateway pages and jump pages, amongst other names.
a good idea to rank higher in the search engines
a highly optimized page that offers no real value to the visitor - it's designed to purely get search engine traffic which will hopefully click through (or be automatically directed) to the real content
a keyword rich and fully optimized page especially designed for one search engine
a keyword rich page created to look like - or rather briefly - replace the home page of Pit-bull
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an HTML page made on your website to get better listings on search engines
an introductory page with a tailored page title, description, text content, and keyword list designed to rank higher in a search engine for a specific query key word
an optimised web page that is built to draw attention from the search engine robots
a page carefully designed to do well on search engine results, but is never meant to be used by humans
a page crammed with lots of keywords that are one way that search engines classify rankings
a page designed to try to get a high ranking, more optimised for ranking, with search engines
a page hosted on another server which has links to your website
a page leading to your web site, optimized for a certain search engine
a page specifically designed only for the search engines
a page that is created and planted within a website to facilitate its rankings for specific search terms
a page that is designed to be crawled by search engines and usually contains keyword stuffing
a page that is designed to rank for a specific term (or set of terms) in search engines
a page that is made especially for the search engines and that has no meaning for humans but is used to get high positions in search engines and to trick users to come to the site
a page that isn't designed for real people to see - it's purely for the search engines and spiders, in an attempt to trick them into indexing the website in a higher position
a page that is overly optimized that it mostly contains text and links aimed to trick search engines of its importance
a page which is specially designed to score high with search engines for a specific keyword phrase
a replica of an existing page designed to rank under a unique phrase at a specific search engine
a simple page that has been created for the sole purpose of ranking higher in the search engines for a particular keywords or keyword phrases
a simple page with text and colour but no graphics, hopefully intriguing enough to entice viewers to click through to your main site
a specially created web page to optimize your ranking with search engines
a stand-alone page which is usually not part of the website as a whole
a web page designed with one purpose, that is to get a high ranking in the Search Engines for a specific sets keyword or keyword phrases
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a web page specifically designed to get high ranking in the Search Engines for a specific keyword or keyword phrase
a webpage specifically designed to rank high in the Search Engines for a specific keyword
a Web page that contains nothing but plain text and a link to your main Web page
a web page that contains only the important details about your site
a web page that has been "key word" optimized to obtain a higher ranking on one or several search engines
a web page that is optimized to rank well for a particular search term
a website that is not very attractive but it has the formula to gain the traffic and ranking in all search engines
A small web page that is optimized to rank highly on search engines for a single keyword. It contains a link to your actual site. Many search engines frown upon these pages and consider them to be spam. A similar and acceptable tactic is to build pages devoted to a specific topic that have real content.
A page that has been created for the sole use of attempting to get a high ranking in the search engines. Again, this is an unethical practice that can lead to penalization by the search engines.
A Web page that is designed to positively affect a site's ranking on search engines. One type of doorway page mimics a Web site's home page when it has been determined the home page is unfriendly to search engine spiders. Another type is invisible to visitors, using Javascript or redirects to show a different Web page to visitors. Most search engines prefer not to include doorway pages in their indexes.
Also called a gateway page or landing page. It is a web page intended to be an entry point for site visitors arriving via a search engine. It is designed to achieve the highest possible search engine ranking.
This is another way to get banned by a Search Engine. These pages are not designed for the visitors. The are usually optimized for one keyword and only exist to get high rankings in the Search Engines Results Pages. They are sometimes called a Gateway Page.
aka bridge page A web page who's purpose is to attract internet traffic from search engines andthen direct the traffic to another website.
This is a dummy page created with a number of keywords and other links to attract Search Engine traffic.
A webpage that serves only as an entry point through which users click to go to the actual home page. In the past, search engines would classify and retrieve websites based primarily on meta tags, but now each search engine has its own set of criteria that you must adhere to if you want your site listed near the top of the results, ie a separate doorway domain should be created for each search engine so that it complies with each engine's criteria. See also: Buffer page.
A low-content page created expressly with the purpose of ranking well on a search engine. It's usually very keyword heavy. Most search engines frown on this SEO marketing practice.
A page designed to serve as an entrance to a web site. Often crafted to rank well in search engines.
A page developed specifically to rank highly in search engines for particular keywords. Doorway pages may act as an entry point to the main content of a website.
a single page created with a sole purpose of driving traffic to a number of other related sites. Usually Doorway Pages are optimized for a single keyword or keyword phrase and are rarely written for anyone other than Search Engine spiders. Doorway Pages violate Terms of Service and could result in a ban from major Search Engines.
A web page strictly used for optimizing a specific keyword or term in order to achieve high rankings in search engines. Doorway pages should consist of good content related to the website.
A Web page that serves only as an entry point through which users click to go to the actual homepage of a Web site. The content of a doorway page is focused on one keyword or keyword phrase. A doorway page is typically a page created by a SEO or webmaster for the exclusive purpose of ranking well in the search engines. They usually consists of a lot of text that is stuffed with the keyword or phrases they are intended to promote and are not linked in to the regular navigational structure of the site. The basic idea is that they will rank well in the SERPs (search engine results pages) and a visitor will enter the site through that page, thus the reason why they are called doorways.
Also known in the search engine marketing business as bridge pages, entry pages, gateway pages, informational pages or portals, these are web pages that are specially designed to rank high in the search engines for particular keywords.
a page used for driving traffic to another page and usually focusing on specific keywords. Generally, doorway pages are designed for search engines only, human visitors never see them - consequently, they are frowned upon. Doorway pages should not be confused with landing pages, a legitimate strategy.
Doorway pages are optimised pages added to a website with the specific purpose of ranking highly for specific keywords. Also see spamming. Google Google is the world's biggest search engine. About 75% of searches performed in Australia are done using Google.
A webpage created to rank well for a keyword in a search engine's listings and which does not contain much information for visitors. Visitors often see only some information, while SE spiders are presented with different page with much more information.
A page designed as an entry point for a website.
Pages created for the purpose of achieving a high search ranking on a specific phrase. Auto generated doorway pages are considered a form of spam.
Web pages designed to rank well in Search engines for search terms, serving as an entry point for the advertiser's site.
A page that is created for the specific purpose of RANKING well in the SEARCH ENGINES for a particular SEARCH PHRASE or set of search phrases. These pages act as additional entry points into a site. Can also refer to any page through which a visitor enters a site, regardless of OPTIMIZATION efforts or referring site.
Also called 'Pointer', 'Hallway' and information pages. It is where a page is optimized to score highly on certain keywords and is linked to a page on your website. This page doesn't contain any real value it is created just to score highly with search engines and pass the visitor onto the main page.
A page specifically made to target specific keywords or phrases. As this technique could artificially increase the relevancy of the web sites and was abused in the past it's treated as spam on most search engines. Also known as bridge pages, gateway page, entry pages, portals or portal pages.
Doorway pages are pages that have been designed for one purpose only, to rank high in the search engines for a particular keyword and then direct the arriving visitors further into the site. Usually their design is relatively simplistic and includes a lot of text, but contains very little graphics or other fancy effects. They are written for search engines to achieve high rankings and hopefully drive traffic to the main site. Using doorway pages is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.
A webpage designed to rank highly on a particular search engine by utilizing methods that are known to produce the best results on that engine. These pages are most often designed to be visible to a search engine spider, but to be hidden from a human visitor. Doorway pages are currently considered a recognized spam tactic and are banned by most of the major engines and directories. Also known as bridge page or gateway page. // entry page See doorway page. // false drop A webpage retrieved from a search engine or directory that isn't relevant to the query. // gateway page See doorway page. // hidden text Text on a webpage that is readable to search engine spiders, but not visible to users. This is done to falsely inflate the keyword density of a website without affecting its visual appearance. Hidden text is now detectable as spam by the majority of the major search engines and sites are penalized for using this tactic.
Doorway pages are web pages that are created to rank high in search engines for particular phrases with purpose to seduce or hoax you to watch another page. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
also known as gateway pages, entry pages, portals or portal pages, even smart pages, they're used to supposedly improve search engine placement. Lately, however, their use has fallen into obscurity, as major search engines (Google, for instance) will drop a site entirely if the existence of doorway, gateway, or smart pages is detected. (Smart pages may not be that "smart" after all).
These content pages are designed only to rank high on the search engines for particular keywords. They act as ‘door ways' that would lead a visitor further into the site.
A page made specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords, serving as an entry point through which visitors pass to the main content.
Standard web pages that contain a high concentration of very specifically targeted keywords. Doorway pages do not contain any real content; their main purpose is to rank highly in search results. Once users arrive at the doorway page, the are referred to the actual site being marketed. The use of doorway pages has decreased in recent years as search engines have learned to ignore them.
Also known as a Gateway page, it is a page specifically made to rank high in search engines. There are legitimate ways to use this technique (see FAQ Do we use Doorway Pages). Often pages made with Flash coding or a lot of Java are unindexable by search engines and thus need a corresponding page for search engines to index.
Doorway pages are web pages that are created to rank high in search engine results for certain phrases and send you to a different page. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages, jump pages, gateway pages and entry pages.
Page specifically designed to rank high in organic search results, offering little customer value. Using doorway pages can lead to the banning of a site and is considered to be a bad practice by many search engines.
A page designed as an entrance to a website. Many doorway pages a specifically created to rank high on a particular search engine. Sometimes referred to as a Gateway Page or a Welcome Mat Page.
A single page, often heavily optimized to a single keyword, is used as a landing page.
A page created to achieve a high ranking in search engines for desirable search queries. This page drives the resulting traffic to the "real" content, which may or may not be located on the same domain. Related terms: Vanity URL
A web page designed to draw in Internet traffic from Search Engines by ranking high for a particular keyword and then direct this traffic to another website. With cloaking, a visitor may never see the doorway page at all. Several Search Engines have guidelines against doorway pages, though they are more commonly allowed in through paid inclusion programs. Also referred to as bridge pages, gateway pages and jump pages, among other names.
Also known as gateway pages, bridge pages, entry pages or portal pages. A doorway web page is submitted to individual search engine spiders to meet specific relevancy algorithms. The doorway web page presents specific information to the search engine. A doorway can be visible or invisible from human viewers.
A web page which itself does not deliver much information to those viewing it, but rather aims to rank well for a specific term and often for a certain search engine. A website may have several door pages created for different search terms and search engines with all of them linking to the same end page. Most search engines have guidelines against doorway pages as they are seen as a form of SPAM.
A page submitted to search engines for the purpose of optimized ranking using specific keywords. This method is considered Spam by search engines.
Doorway Page - Web pages created specifically to fool search engines
Also known as a gateway page or focused content page. These are highly optimised pages targeting 1-2 keyword phrases. They exist for the sole purpose of being spider-food and gaining top ranks in serps.
black hat technique of setting up a dummy page that appears to the search engine to be legitimate and/or of a certain type of content but that is actually an entry page to another website, generally a spam website of some sort
Any page through which a visitor can enter your site. Some people prepare special pages to rank well in search engines for particular keywords, serving as an entry point through which visitors pass to the main content.
A web page created expressly in hopes of ranking well for a term in a search engine's non-paid listings and which itself does not deliver much information to those viewing it. Instead, visitors will often see only some enticement on the doorway page leading them to other pages (i.e., "Click Here To Enter), or they may be automatically propelled quickly past the doorway page. With cloaking, they may never see the doorway page at all. Several search engines have guidelines against doorway pages, though they are more commonly allowed in through paid inclusion programs. Also referred to as bridge pages, gateway pages, and jump pages, among other names.
A web page created in the hope of improving another page's ranking in a search engine's listings. Doorway pages don't give much information to the people viewing them.
A web page designed to draw Internet traffic in from search engines, and then direct this traffic to another website. The page is usually optimized for a particular search engine and search term. When a surfer visits the page it will either detect their IP address and redirect them to the correct page (cloaking) or it will have a large link for them click through to the full site. Multiple doorway pages are often used to help ensure that the same basic content is ranked well on several different search engines. The use of doorway pages for this purpose is frowned upon by most larger search engines, including Google.
Web pages created specifically for search engine positions. Also known as gateway page or a bridge page.
A page specifically created with keyword intensive Meta Tags and body text for higher indexing of the page by Search Engine robots and crawlers.
Also known as bridge pages, gateway page, entry pages, portals or portal pages, these pages are used to improve search engine placement. Caution: some search engines will drop a site entirely if the existence of doorway/gateway pages is detected.
Also called a gateway page. A doorway page exists solely for the purpose of driving traffic to another page. They are usually designed and optimised to target one specific keyphrase. Doorway pages rarely are written for human visitors. They are written for search engines to achieve high rankings and hopefully drive traffic to the main site. Using doorway pages is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning.
A page which has been specially created in order to get a high ranking in the search engines. Also called gateway page, bridge page, entry page etc.
A doorway page is a web page made specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords. It serves as an entry point for visitors to pass through to get to the main content.
A page designated as an entry point for viewers arriving from another site or search engine. Can be existing page on a site or a page independently created for that purpose.
According to the topical relevance, if a page is not providing relevance data for the domain topic is called doorway page. These are also called bridge pages, entry pages etc.
A page made specifically to rank well in search engines for particular keywords. Also... an entry point through which visitors pass to reach your web site's main content.
a web page created solely to achieve high ranking in search engines for particular keywords, and perhaps for a specific engine. Today's doorway pages should contain valuable and useful content related to your site, and be fully linked to the site, and so are often referred to as "information pages."
Doorway pages are typically considered unethical and are against the guidelines of most search engines. A doorway page is a web page designed to draw traffic from search engines, and direct this traffic to another page. Usually doorway pages use manipuative techniques that exploit searh engines to increase traffic un-naturally.
Doorway pages are web pages that have been optimized and in many cases over optimized to get high search engine placement. They normally are of little value to the end user. Doorway pages are also referred to as
Currently considered a spamming technique if used improperly and discouraged by most of the major engines, a doorway page is a webpage designed to be featured highly on a particular search engine using tactics that produce the best results for that engine.
Also called a gateway page, a doorway page exists for the purpose of driving traffic to a website. They are designed and optimized to target one specific key phrase and are written for search engines to obtain high rankings and drive traffic to the site. Using doorway pages is a violation of the Terms Of Service of most search engines and could be grounds for banning a website. Stay away from the use of doorway pages.
A doorway page is a page created only to appear in search engine or PPC search engines
pages specifically tailored to search engines with the goal to achieve top rankings. Also known as a gateway, bridge, or entry page.
Web pages, often specifically engineered to rank highly on search engines - also known as Gateway Pages. Excessive use of such pages can lead to search engine penalties.
These can also be known as a bridge page, landing page or entry page. Using one is a SEO technique for ranking well associated with given keywords, which depending on the method used, can sometimes be considered as spamdexing by search engines. (See also Keywords, SEO and Spamdexing).
Also known as bridge pages, bridging pages, entry pages and landing pages. Referring to a page designed to rank well for a selected keyword and redirect visitors to another, "real" page. Important here is that there are two kinds of doorway pages: those generated automatically based on a template and manually created keyword focused content pages (KFCPs). The first kind is considered spam and penalized by most search engines . The second is an important and usually very effective SEO technique. For a detailed discussion of doorway pages and all the do's and don'ts, please refer to the Search Engine Yearbook .
Also known as a "bridge page". Any page created for the sole purpose of driving website traffic from the search engines and not a functional part of the website. See also: Banned, Blacklist, Hallway Page, Landing Page, Machine-Generated, Referrer, Search Engine Optimization, Spamming, Splash Page
A Web page submitted to individual search engine spiders to meet specific relevancy algorithms. The doorway page presents information to the spider while obscuring it from human viewers. The purpose of doorway pages is to present the spider with the format it needs for optimum rankings while presenting a more appropriate version to human viewers. It's also a way for Webmasters to avoid publicly disclosing placement tactics. The use of doorway pages customizes submission to each individual search engine. Also known as gateway pages, bridge pages, entry pages, portals or portal pages.
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 you to a different page. They are also known as landing pages, bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages (a humorous arbitrary coinage by Jill Whalen of High Rankings Advisor), jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names. Doorway pages that redirect visitors without their knowledge use some form of cloaking.