Re: Gateway Pages for Search Engines

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Sun, 05 Sep 1999 13:28:37 +1000
To:	linque <linque(at)ameritech.net>
Cc:	hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	mediaone
	todo: View Thread, Original

At 22:16 4/09/99 -0400, you wrote:
>My question is...
>     If i devise an appropriate Gateway page..as they call them (splash
>page, entry page ), to satisfy each search engine, but the domain name is
>the same for each search engine, how do i do that? make the site with one
>gateway page...submit to one engine and wait? (how long??) before changing
>to next Gateway tailored for next search engine....and repeat...  ???

Gateway and doorway pages refer to individual pages - ie one for each
search engine - that are stored permanently on your server.  The idea is
you submit the individual page rather than the generic domain name.

Some search engines are wary of these too, and won't index them if they are
simply a "splash page" which links to only one URL.

Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne
http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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