Talk:Doorway page/Archives/2013

Content Rich Pages = Doorways?!
"More sophisticated doorway pages, called Content Rich Doorways, are designed to gain high placement in search results without using redirection. They incorporate at least a minimum amount of design and navigation similar to the rest of the site to provide a more human-friendly and natural appearance. Visitors are offered standard links as calls to action."

This description is very vague, undefined and noninformative about the criteria for labeling a page as doorway. Majority of pages could fit the description above. A page that has rich content, standard links and normal (cheap) design and navigation is defined as doorway?!


 * It is defined as a "content rich doorway" page because the copy is written for a specific keyword or query, and the page is intended only to persuade visitors to click through to deeper content (usually a transaction of some kind).Michael Martinez (talk) 23:46, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

spamming again
I removed a spam link that pointed to a poorly-written spam page. Firewareosba 22:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Meta-jacking
The folliwng text on "meta-jacking" was removed, because a Google search for it (in realtion to doorway pages) only gave results for copies of this artcile.


 * You could also "meta jack" a webpage. It's simply taking meta tags from a another high ranking page to yours, but it will not guarantee a high ranking. Cloaking is also a form of doorway pages technique.

Russian translation
I added a link to a Russian translation taken from the Doorway article, which I intend to clear and redirect to this article. However, I don't speak Russian, and given the (low) quality of the rest of the Doorway article, I would like someone who speaks Russian to confirm that the article I'm linking to is in fact a translation of this article. Thanks! Ehn 16:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

External link spamming
With all due respect this page's external links is becoming home to major wikispamming in an uncontrolled level (what do you expect from a Black SEO subject). I believe the content is sufficiently covered and I believe only Reference links with proper reference to the page from proper pages should be allowed in so I will be deleting the External page section of this page. Thank you and I hope you support me in this decision. MKS 05:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Two years later and they're still at it. --Ardonik.talk* 06:42, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Not everyone is a spammer
This article seems written only from the point of view of someone who either is experienced at SE spamming or at combatting it, virtually ignoring legitimate pages often described by some of these terms. This may confuse site owners who seek to learn more about what others (e.g. their developers) are telling them.

Although the brief discussion of landing pages does suggest that the role of a landing page is legitimate, that legitimacy is not made completely clear. (And I grant that the "duplicated content" of landing pages historically have confused the search engines.)

But my immediate concern is the discussion of bridge pages, which is a variously defined term. Some people use "bridge" as a synonym for "landing," while others say "bridge" when they mean "hallway." Both these other terms can refer to pages that are entirely legitmate.

Thankfully, the term "hallway page" doesn't appear in this article (yet), and if it were not for the confusion of definitions, maybe this wouldn't even be an issue. But the terms are confused (by people in general, not so much here), so a discussion seems warranted.

A "hallway page" -- a submenu page leading to various detail pages -- has a legitimate reason for being. Although it is arguably not always the best example of usability (directly linking to the detail page may be best), it does serve a usability role. For instance, when a word on the main menu displays links to various detail pages, but these links are visible only to JavaScript-enabled users. If the links do not appear, or if the user doesn't notice them (e.g., may not know to do a rollover), clicking the main menu word (the menu label) will lead to a bridge (hallway) page that contains the links to the various detail pages. A legitimate hallway page may or may not include text serving as a general introduction to the overall topic. That text may be lengthy, or it may legitimately be only a sentence or two. Regardless, the introduction may be helpful to the visitor.

Would someone please discuss this angle in the article? Eplater (talk) 16:28, 31 August 2009 (UTC)