is it a doorway page ?

[member22]

Hello,

I have a main website and 3 other websites who just have one page that has a link on it which redirects to my main website ? is that called doorway pages and can my main website be penalized for that ?

Thank you,

[tedster]

A doorway is a page that exists only to channel traffic to a main page - often with no inbound links and little to no "real" content. So it sounds like you have 3 domains that only serve up one doorway page each. That is extremely unlikely to help you in the rankings - they will probably just be ignored, but depending on other factors such as server and whois data, more problems might be triggered.

Unless you have a strong reason for keeping those domains, I'd just take them offline. If they have another business function, then use a robots.txt disallow. Better not to take any risk with your main domain when there's so little chance of showing any gain from the tactic in the first place.

[lfgoal]

"I have a main website and 3 other websites who just have one page that has a link on it which redirects to my main website ?"

Maybe I'm wrong, but aren't some calling these "micro-sites" lately. Basically mini sites whose sole purpose is to capture traffic and send it to a parent site?

[member22]

Hi Tedester,

If instead of removing those pages I just leave the page I created but with no active link on the page ? would that hurt ? I know it wouldn't be really usefull but as long as it doesn't hurt ?

Then what do you mean by problem that might be triggered with the who is data and server ? if it is on a different server than my main website ?

Thanks,

[HuskyPup]

Why do you not simply create some unique and relevant content for those 3 pages? It's simple enough to do and would not hurt your main domain and they would most probably be indexed and actually in the SERPs.

Do not make a duplicate of your exisiting domain index page, that would be pointless and whatever you do, do not try and hide the fact that the domains are interlinked, that is more than likely to get you a penalty.

Google knows very well that many companies have a lot of business protected domain names (typos, trade names, potential new product sites etc) and developed correctly they are a useful tool for both the business and user alike.