Index doorway trick (or some magic :)

[airdick]

Originally Posted by Mcbethar

Here you got an useful tool (posted by PointingPercy on another thread on the SEO forum) to see if your site may be falling victim to the Google duplicate content filter. Apparently a duplicate rating of 75 - 80% is pretty bad news for your SEP's.
http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php - Duplicate content tool.
Hope it helps

Mcbethar

Assuming that the tool actually reflects Google's reality, the more text-based recip tables you use on your mirrored warning pages the better.

[Wenchy]

I was under the apparently-misguided impression that mirrored index pages for LL submissions were standard practice. I know that certainly used to be the case, and at one time all of the big WM boards taught that as a matter of course (some still do).

Granted, I've been out of the loop for awhile and things may have (probably have) changed while I was away...

[docholly]

Originally Posted by Wenchy

I was under the apparently-misguided impression that mirrored index pages for LL submissions were standard practice. I know that certainly used to be the case, and at one time all of the big WM boards taught that as a matter of course (some still do).

Granted, I've been out of the loop for awhile and things may have (probably have) changed while I was away...

nope..i agree.. chances are there is more traffic generated by the .htm pages to the recepts listed on it than there is to the html pages listed in google.

of course this has been a topic of OTB on several occassions.. and perhaps those who aren't quite familiar with the html/htm concept should make a point in attending.

and if the theory is that you have to be on the HTML page to get listed, i think quite a few of the smaller medium sized LL will see a decrease in submits which decreases traffic.

Think bookmarkers, think link pop, think updated PR value.

play to your audience not the google gods.

[neveremail]

Looks like another difficult choice.

Probably changing the text on the different doorway pages is the best method. Just means the whole making and submitting process will be longer

But i suppose it means both LLs and SEs are happy. (well i guess SEs wont be happy but their spiders should not notice). Just more work for free site creaters.

[SortLinks]

Originally Posted by neveremail

Looks like another difficult choice.
Just more work for free site creaters.

For fair free site creators I would say
Cheaters are not affected this way.

[neveremail]

Originally Posted by SortLinks

For fair free site creators I would say
Cheaters are not affected this way.

I agree!

but i think (or would hope) that in the end fair free site creaters will get thier reward. Link lists and SEs hate cheaters and try to get rid of them - they may get away for it for a while but its short lived and if they focused as much time on trying to make a genuine site rather than how to trick SEs and LLs they would do better

Just my two cents (but going off on a tangent a bit)