Doorway Page - Redirection

Redirection

Webmasters that use doorway pages would generally prefer that users never actually see these pages and instead be delivered to a "real" page within their sites. To achieve this goal, redirection is sometimes used. This may be as simple as installing a meta refresh tag on the doorway pages. An advanced system might make use of cloaking. In either case, such redirection may make your doorway pages unacceptable to search engines.

By the way, should you come across a page that is using a fast meta refresh command, you can stop it in its tracks and view the source code by inserting "view-source" before the URL in your browser's address field.