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Nature of the Phenomenon

The visitor is directed inside the site or redirected (a so-called redirect) to another site — it all depends on who created the doorway and how devious their intentions were. If you think about it, any page that is optimized for a search engine is already a doorway.

In most cases, a doorway is used to attract visitors to sites that do not actually match the subject of their query.

See Also

Web-Planet Magazine on Doorways