Possible Flame Bait, but an honest question: doorway pages

[amareck]

Got a question, and it may appear odd...but its not as odd as it appears on first glance.

What's so evil about multiple entry pages to freesites? I've been doing a bit of thinking...and Im sure Im missing something, and just wanted the clarification. Please dont reply with the canned response of doorway page arguments, im not a total noob lol...just figured this should be in the noob section since it will deal with a fairly basic concept of the industry.

In this post, I am a free site builder who submits their free sites to around 30 or so LL's, once per day almost religiously. I wish to follow all the rules, and want to "play the game fair". That being said, I also need to submit to more than 1 reciprocal table, because I need the traffic and exposure to pay my bills

Option 1 - Evil
If I were using duplicate entry pages for freesites, I would come up with something like this for a free site that I intend to submit to 3 "sets" of LL's (with a far better keyword URL of course!):

http://dom1.com/fs1/index.html
http://dom1.com/fs1/warning.html
http://dom1.com/fs1/index2.html

and so forth. From what I can tell, most LL owners consider these pages "bad" - they are exact duplicates of each other, barring the recips.

Option 2 - Good
Now, lets take a look at the alternative, the "regular" method of submitting:

http://dom1.com/fs1/v1/index.html
http://dom1.com/fs1/v2/index.html
http://dom1.com/fs1/v3/index.html

This is totally acceptable everywhere (or appears to be, again I may be missing something). So long as an LL owner can access the freesite by omitting anything after the last forward slash, they are happy.

Which side of the force Luke?
Here's where Im questioning what appears to be the prevailing logic....

"Good Option" dictates that for each site I do, I have 3 separate folders. Each of these folders is exactly the same, excepting a slight variation of the name of the folder, and a different recip table on the index. I do the following pages:

- index.html
- <keywords>.html
- <keywords>001.html (gallery 1)
- <keywords>002.html (gallery 2)
- links.html

So, doing "the right thing" I am producing 4 pages in exact triplicate. Under the evil option, I am producing index.html in triplicate, with a different name.

On my meagre understanding of SE's, wouldn't the "evil option" be better for everyone concerned? Less duplicative content, and the page that IS duplicated is MASSIVELY different on each occassion, due to the huge amounts of code that go into recip tables. I did a rough scan of 3 or 4 sites I'd built, and the identical code between index pages was around 15-25%. yes, the recips accounted for over 3/4 of the code on the page.

Please, do not misunderstand me here. Im not trying to rock the boat or cause problems, but it appears that the general rules of submission are forcing free site builders to trash any SE relevance we may obtain and pass on by way of our recip links. Im unaware of other reasons why duplicative entry pages are bad, so its all about the SE's right?

Im wanted to raise this question: which is better in the end for all concerned? Duplicate "sites" with 4x the duplicative pages....or single "site" with multiple entrances, each entrance being hugely different?