What's Your Thoughts on Doorway Mini Sites?

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I know a doorway page is looked down upon by Google, but what about a mini doorway site?

Say a 5 page mini site with an entrance to my main site?

Would Google still see that as a doorway page?

The reason I ask is I have several Affiliate white label sites, and Affiliate white label sites don't rank on Google, at least its really hard to get them ranked.

So I thought a mini doorway site with 5 or more pages like an About Us page, FAQ page ect, ect would do the trick.

What do you guys think?
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  • Profile picture of the author iamsuneel
    I do not understand the reason why you would need a mini doorway site in the first place when you are finding it hard to drive visitors to the affiliate white label sites.

    I am fairly new to the doorway sites concept. So here are a few doubts and my opinion on it.

    Even if it's a mini site, what are the techniques you are going to follow in order to bring traffic? Use the same ones for the affiliate sites. Maintaining and updating each mini-site for each and every affil. site would become a horrendous business later on.

    Just my 2 cents.
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    • Profile picture of the author Idiot Domainer
      I don't think you understand, a White Label Affiliate site is a cookie cutter site, and depending on the Affiliate there could be 100 to 1000s of the same identical site and they don't rank for nothing no matter what you do. Google hates them.

      I even have one that doesn't even allow to be indexed.

      And I am tired of spending a lot money on adwords.

      So I thought instead of wasting my time trying to get the White Label site ranked why not just get the mini site ranked and feed them through that way?
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  • Profile picture of the author theentry
    I've 1 page mini sites ranking good on google and have some 5 page sites which can't rank at all
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    • Profile picture of the author Idiot Domainer
      Originally Posted by theentry View Post

      I've 1 page mini sites ranking good on google and have some 5 page sites which can't rank at all
      Hhhmm interesting.

      I don't know if its true, but I have heard that single page doorway pages rank well until google realizes they are doorways and then they get penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author bluebaboondesign
    Whats wrong with a doorway page? If you look at this page - remove the spaces to see link - apparently I'm not allowed to add links yet.

    sportslinx . co . uk / footballacademy / isleworthfootballtraining . php

    For my football training site - we have got top of Google for all these search terms.

    Is Google going to punish us at some point if they find this?
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    • Profile picture of the author Idiot Domainer
      Originally Posted by bluebaboondesign.com View Post

      Whats wrong with a doorway page? If you look at this page - remove the spaces to see link - apparently I'm not allowed to add links yet.

      sportslinx . co . uk / footballacademy / isleworthfootballtraining . php

      For my football training site - we have got top of Google for all these search terms.

      Is Google going to punish us at some point if they find this?
      Just search Google on "Doorway Pages"
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      • Profile picture of the author bluebaboondesign
        Originally Posted by Idiot Domainer View Post

        Just search Google on "Doorway Pages"

        ok will do
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  • Profile picture of the author bluebaboondesign
    very new to all this but keen to learn
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  • Profile picture of the author bluebaboondesign
    So I've Googled it - I reckon I've created landing pages on this site which are ok.

    Doorway pages seem to automatically redirect the visitor to another site or page?

    On these landing pages I've created I'm hoping the visitor clicks on the home page once the reach the landing page -rather than forcing them by 'cloaking'

    Im thinking of adding blogs to each of these landing pages also - with content all about the area I'm targeting - Do you think that sounds like a good idea?
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    • Profile picture of the author Idiot Domainer
      Originally Posted by bluebaboondesign.com View Post

      So I've Googled it - I reckon I've created landing pages on this site which are ok.

      Doorway pages seem to automatically redirect the visitor to another site or page?

      On these landing pages I've created I'm hoping the visitor clicks on the home page once the reach the landing page -rather than forcing them by 'cloaking'

      Im thinking of adding blogs to each of these landing pages also - with content all about the area I'm targeting - Do you think that sounds like a good idea?
      Sounds good to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Idiot Domainer
    Anyone else have any opinions?
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