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Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are web pages that have been created
for the sole purpose of ranking highly in the search results for
one or two searchterms, and are not normally an integral part of
the website. If search engines didn't exist, neither would doorway
pages. Some search engine optimizers complain that doorway pages
clutter up the search results and, therefore, devalue them for surfers.
That view is not without a factual basis, but only in the past.
It used to be true that a site could dominate the top results with
doorway pages, but that was a failing of the search engines. It
used to be possible for site to have 5 or more doorway pages in
the top 10 results, and sometimes it was much worse. For instance,
when localized Altavistas first appeared, some sites' doorway pages
would occupy the top 30, 50 and even more results.
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