Doorway Pages

[Riley Marie]

I have noticed that a competitor of mine is using doorway pages to achieve some great rankings on Google. The pages seem to be very short, but if you scroll down they are filled with junk keywords. As you click through to the real site you see that the products you thought you had found don't actually exist on their site.

While I am sure that eventually their potential customers are going to get fed up with this on their own, I was wondering if there was a faster way to drop them in rankings. Is there somewhere that I can report this?

Thank you.

[SanDiegoSEO]

Worry less about what things your competitors are doing wrong, and focus on doing the right things for your site.

[David Wallace]

Two things to keep in mind:

1. While they might be achieving some "great rankings" how are they converting when people land on crap doorway pages?

2. Eventually thy will get caught and possibly be punished. What will they do then if they haven't built a great site that can stand on its own without resorting to cheap and sneaky techniques like doorway pages?

[SEOIC]

I do believe there's a way to report them to Google, although I'm not sure of the exact procedure - others on here may know more. I'm all for good and fair competition, but someone who obviously is abusing the system is not good or fair. Make him fry!

[Chris_D]

I don't think it would be appropriate for this thread to get into a discussion of whether you should, or shoudn't report a competitor. That's your call.

Is there somewhere that I can report this?

For Google:

1. At the bottom of the first Google search engine results page (serp) for a specific search, there is a text link "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" which takes you to a Google quality_form, which automatically provides the search phrase etc. you searched on.

2. Alternatively, there is a spam report page: http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

Most other SE's have a similar method for providing 'search results quality feedback'.

<Added - Welcome to the forums Riley Marie!>

[Riley Marie]

Thank you so much for your help! While I appreciate the morality lessons, keeping on the cutting edge of business and competition sometimes means tattling on those who aren't quite playing by the rules. Thanks again.