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Now, to drive traffic to www.example.com (2) I tried putting some well-targeted pages on www.example.com (1) with the keywords pertaining on www.example.com (2). They immediately got excellent SERPs.
What I am tempted to do is to build some pages like www.example.com (1)/poor-keyword and use them to drive traffic to www.example.com (2).
I wanted to design the www.example.com (1)/poor-keyword pages so that they graphically look very similar to www.example.com (2), including logo, title, toolbars etc. Plus, all the navigation links would point to pages on www.example.com (2) (www.example.com (2)/home.htm, www.example.com (2)/search.htm etc.)
The user would search poor-keyword, find www.example.com (1)/poor-keyword, read the page, click on any navigation link and get to www.example.com (2)
Provided that:
- the www.example.com (1)/poor-keyword pages have their own content (no duplicates of www.example.com (2))
- the usage of keywords on those pages would be reasonable (no keyword spamming)
- they are not "scraper pages"
- the links are plain links, no redirects or similar tricks
- there is no cloaking
Do you think that what I want to do is a trick that puts me at risk of having www.example.com (1) being penalized in the search engines?
Would you call those pages "gateway pages", in the "bad" meaning?
[edited by: pageoneresults at 6:38 pm (utc) on Mar. 24, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified URI References [/edit]
(I wish I had two such nice domains!)
But alas they were already examples.
Ah-ha, a common misconception. Did you try browsing to those examples? ;)
Now I see it's a REAL example!
