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I know there's been loads of discussion on this, but I'm still confused as to how the following senario is treated by Google.
I have an optimised page, with on-topic content, not keyword stuffed but optimised, with loads of links to other pages in the site (but only relevant to the content on the page).
OK, so this is a doorway page, I've deliberately put it there to rank highly in Google as my homepage has flash and other non-indexable material.
But I don't want this crappy design page to be viewed by my clients. So I don't include a link to it from index.htm to it. Is this now an orphan, despite having links to other pages in the site?
If so, I imagine I've answered my own question and it would be considered spam.
Just wondered what people thought. Any advice appreciated. Thanks :-)
So get some inbound links.
A doorway, on the other hand is exactly what you have described. It is an optimiuzed page which links to other pages within the site but which has no incoming links from the main site. It is obvious to all search engines that this is a doorway and will be penalized if detected by Googlebot ... at least, I am pretty sure, others will know better than I.
Flash on your home page? Why???
It is a hypothetical queetion by the way, the page does not exist.. yet :-)
With regards to falsh, ... hehe very quick to judge aren't we :-)
I think flash if sparingly used can be very effective. Check out the page in my profile to have a look what u think. Iam dead set against splash pages of any kind because they are normally both rubbish and irritating, but flash does have it's place, let's be fair folks!
To the best of my knowledge, an orphan page is a page which isn't linked "from" anything within the site and is also not linked "to" anything. I have had PR penalties imposed for this sort of thing twice. On both occassions, I was testing a document and forgot to take it down.
