Doorway pages/websites

[turbohost]

Hi,

I've got a website with about 130.000 pages of content. What happens if I make a second website with the same content and I link each page on both websites to each other? Will the search engines punish me for this and lower my ranking? Will the search engines notice this?

I've got to admit that I have already tried this one out a month ago and I don't see a change in my page rank (hence my questions above). Everyone involved with SEO warns me about what doorway pages can do to your page rank in the search engines, but I haven't noticed a thing.

Somebody?

[MonkeeSage]

Quality Guidelines - Specific recommendations:

* Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
* Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don't send automated queries to Google.
* Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
* Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
* Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.

These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here, (e.g. tricking users by registering misspellings of well-known web sites). It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Webmasters who spend their energies upholding the spirit of the basic principles listed above will provide a much better user experience and subsequently enjoy better ranking than those who spend their time looking for loopholes they can exploit.

If you believe that another site is abusing Google's quality guidelines, please report that site at [google.com...] Google prefers developing scalable and automated solutions to problems, so we attempt to minimize hand-to-hand spam fighting. The spam reports we receive are used to create scalable algorithms that recognize and block future spam attempts.

(citation [groups.google.com], emphasis added).

Jordan

[turbohost]

It's a doorway website, not a doorway page. It are in fact different websites powered by a single sql database. A doorway page has just some links pointing to a single website. My websites are completely isolated and have 140k web pages per site.

I don't have less (nor more :-<) traffic than without the doorway websites, so I was thinking that this isn't punished by Google.

[turbohost]

Mmmmh, there is also the "duplicate content" thing. The sites haven't been punished though. They have a PR4 just like a few months ago.

[turbohost]

Must be PR5 :->

[killroy]

I had a similar experience with a database republished in two distinct formats (different styles of sites, but same structure and underlying database).

So far( about 1-2 years) Google has treated them as distinct sites, and each ranks differently for keywords, and is indexed to different depths.

SN