Possible Flame Bait, but an honest question: doorway pages

[amareck]

Thanks for clearing that up DJilla Here's me thinking that duplicative content = SE bad....ergo less duplicate pages = SE good! The lord help me, Im just not that bright!

[Halfdeck]

Duplicate pages do suck, and the current setup of submitting index.html does open things up for a busload of supplementals, which are useless for LLs in terms of boosting the number of backlinks and link juice via anchor text. But its a double-edged sword; if all LL SEOed the crap out of their sites, you have a less chance of pulling SE traffic yourself with your free sites.

[amareck]

as a side note: I should have used the word "mirror" instead of "doorway"....I guess Im just not that into the lingo yet

yep, understood half-deck thanks for the fedback. The reason for this whole question was that it appeared that LL rules were....not forcing...but resutling in a freesite submitter to either:

a) reduce possible signups from 30-40 listings to 8-16, by building 1 freesite and submit to 8-16 LL's to avoid duplicative mirrors; or
b) forget any relevance they may build on the back of their freesites, and submit X versions of freesites for "cash now"

As a side note, I chose item A on the basis of a long term committment to this industry. I wont be dumping any of the old mirror sites that were submitted Its just that I'll only be building a single site from now on.

if all LL SEOed the crap out of their sites, you have a less chance of pulling SE traffic yourself with your free sites

You're probably right here - Im no SEO guru. However, Im not after pulling SE traffic with freesites...I dont know how much that actually happens, but I daresay its a very niche occurrence But over time, keyworded free sites, on multiple domains, linking to a main LL will do good SE stuff eventually, if done right...right?

What Im looking at here....I have almost 150 freesites....I build approximately 6 freesites per week. I have 25 adult domains and will be buying more. Under my "old" approach of "freesite in triplicate", I think I was killing any SE relevance I may gotten due to massive duplicative content. Under this new approach, if I do the right things (thanks DD!), maybe I'll get somewhere for a niche or two within a couple of years.

[DJilla]

Originally Posted by amareck

Thanks for clearing that up DJilla Here's me thinking that duplicative content = SE bad....ergo less duplicate pages = SE good! The lord help me, Im just not that bright!

I'm sorry, April is one of my sarcastic months and you asked a perfectly good question(s) and I was just being goofy.

First there are a variety of good ways to efficiently create your folders and pages to minimize your fuss and allow you to submit to 100 LL's if you want. HOWEVER, even with an efficient folder structure you will still end up with some duplicate content issues. If you want to do things right you just have to change a little of every aspect of your doorways/mirrors/whateverpages which is not hard to do. Change the metatags a little, rearrange the phrasing on alt tags, move around and add or take away a few sentences of sales text, plus the recips will contribute and viola no more dupped pages. If done right, every one of those pages could become good SE food down the road. Down the road. It can take a long time before you can hone in on top terms in the SE world.

The reason we want index pages a technical one having to do with the order a page is loaded based on default extension, in other words *.html loads before *.htm if no page is specified. Index321.html won't load at all and looks phony. For more on this see:

http://pageplanetsoftware.com/mgiuse...aultpages.html

There is also the philosophy that says submit as many sites as you can, as fast as you can, to as many lists as you can and forget about em.

With the kind of numbers you've quoted and the # of sites your building and domains that you have, you're going to be very busy. I take my hat off to you for abmition. If you can perhaps find some good content management scripts to backend it all, you're on the way to a goldmine.

Good Luck!

[tickler]

Originally Posted by DJilla

The reason we want index pages a technical one having to do with the order a page is loaded based on default extension, in other words *.html loads before *.htm if no page is specified. For more on this see:
http://pageplanetsoftware.com/mgiuse...aultpages.html

Actually it works the other way around on my dedicated server. Don't really know if that's just a config difference or operating system difference. I know on my home server that I can set any order that I want.