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Old Mar 11, 2001, 06:51   #1
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I'm thinking of putting a couple of my doorway pages on free severs (i.e. homestead, geocities) because I try only to submit 1-2 pages a day from one domain to any engine daily. Anymore than that and it's considered spam.

Is there a free server that anyone has had some luck on with their doorways? I tried Geocities in the past, but I could never get my site listed in the engines, due to the mass submission by other geocities users.
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Old Mar 13, 2001, 00:25   #2
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I have some links saved in my favs to pages that talk about using doorway pages. A few to check are

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/features.html

and

http://www.kaleidoscope-dts.com/secrets.html

When I find the others I'll post them on this message board


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Old Mar 13, 2001, 05:26   #3
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I have heard that pages posted on free servers are down-ranked by many engines, so I do not believe this is a strategy worth pursuing. This may be why you didn't have much luck with geocities.
I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain this is true.
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Old Mar 13, 2001, 19:40   #4
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PJMAN,

I have had some limited success with doorway pages hosted on FreeServers that use virtual domains <i.e. my doorways on the domain alyssamilano-pp.hompage.com> there are some problems with this approach including...
**FreeServers are notoriously unreliable
**you run the possibility of building, uploading, and promoting your doorways only to have the FreeServer cease operations
<I recently received an e-mail from HomePages telling me that they were discontinuing their services>
**most FreeServers use pop-up ads which visitors find annoying...this could drastically reduce the effectiveness of your doorways

anyone have additional drawbacks that I've overlooked?

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