doorway pages

[horndog]

Thanks for the input Luscious and Horney,
I guess what I should of asked is it even a good idea to use doorway pages or mirror your index page. Of course with each doorway page you could put 15 to 20 more reciprocals and submit to more link list. But I've read that the search engines don't like doorway pages because they see it as spamming.

[horney]

That's what mirror pages are designed to sidestep. You make a site in a folder, make 1, 2, however many you like, copies. Each is a sub-folder of your main site. Each copy, including the original, has a separate recips table on index.html with different lists' recips on it. ALL of the rest of each site is straight copies of the one you designed to start with.

You name the 2, 3, 4 or more sites so they are not an obvious numerical sequence (a mistake I made with my first half a dozen or so sites) so nobody can even guess which is the "original" site and which are the mirrors. Those list owners who get upset if they think they are down your rankings can't tell where they are in your rankings.

Now, if you have control of your server, and if you don't mind that it takes more time than to ftp to each mirror anyway, and you don't mind the fact that you have to physically make each simlink - you can script it but for these purposes that may be even more time consuming - you can simlink each page so you just have one copy of each page, plus a separate index.html, for each mirror.

Then, if you want to make changes or make an update, you can do it in one place and it happens on all mirrors simultaneously. Unlike using a script with, say, .php extensions, you can call each page what you wish, so for instance it could be gallery1.html in one instance, show1.html in another, parade1.html in another. SEs treat each simlink as though it were a separate page and the list owners' scripts can't tell either.

It is the technique by which your web host give you "your own" instance of phpMyAdmin and webmail, to name but two - it has to be on the same server or have a very experienced and competent developer.

So, back to the question. No to doorways. yes to mirrors. There is more than one way to create a mirror so it's up to you how you do it, but copying your original site folder, renaming each copy, then changing the index.html page in each copy is very easy.

I came across a list where the conditions stated the owner hates mirrors. Rather than asking how he knew which was the mirror and which was the site, because unless you really make it obvious as I did to start with, and having had a bottle of wine or so at the time, I thought "What a pillock!" and didn't bother submitting.

[horndog]

AHH! Thats what I was looking for. So I should just mirror my site and stick a different set of reciprocals on the index.html page of the mirror site instead of fooling with doorway pages.

Thanks Horney