Doorway Pages and Search Engine Submissions

[naifyboy]

hi guys

i'm new to this so please bare with me. I have designed a web site to sell a very popular product which is being sold by many others online.

I have added keywords to the body test, alt tags, title tags etc, etc and designed using external CSS and external javascript to keep the code down to a minumum and with no use of tables.

However, i can not afford pay per click and am struggling to find links from other sites to get me started.

I came accross [snip] a product on the net which auto submits for me. I am not really that interest in auto submitting, but what it also offers is up to 200 door way pages - i'm not that sure what they mean by this but it sounds like a way to get some links.

Also is there a piece of software that will automatically hit my site to gain it's popularity - otr is that just unethical?

What do you guys reckon?

Thanks in advance fro any help you can offer

[edited by: pageoneresults at 9:36 pm (utc) on Aug. 4, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[arrowman]

Doorway pages are considered spam by the SE's and may get you blacklisted.

[tedster]

You may have come into some information that is extremely old (in web terms) and that gave you a viewpoint that is full of "tricks". I often have prospective clients approach me thinking in those terms. But as arrowman said, today most of these old tricks are playing with fire and can get you banned.

The entire WebmasterWorld set of forums is rich and full with good solid information, and most all of the time, out-dated or dangerous practices are pointed out by someone else in the thread. As you read you will learn who really "has the goods" and who does not.

The thing that was not clear to many in the 90's was that just because a business is online doesn't mean it has some special magic going for it. It still takes hard work and intelligent decisions to achieve success. Start-up costs can be a lot lower than they would be for a physical world business, but the entire "book of business rules" is not thrown out and replaced with a set of technology tricks.

You'll discover as you read that you have arrived in a good place. WebmasterWorld is by far the best forum of its kind, highly trafficed (some day's it's nearly scary!) and populated by a strong entrepeneurial bunch as well as those on corporate teams.

I know of many self-made success stories in web businesses who count WebmasterWorld as the key to their growing success. So read away (there's hardly a topic that isn't already covered here), good luck, and hope we see you around a lot.

[The_Hitcher]

Yup - DON'T buy software - its the undoing of many a good site. Do everything by hand.