Anyway!! I don’t think it’s fair or eithical for sites with high PR to have doorway pages to other sites. In effect, that’s exactly what the jobs page is. When you do a search, it’s not as if it uses an api or that WT are making money from this. The only reason for this page is to generate traffic from search engines as part of their online marketing campaign.

If we were all to do this, the web would be full of SEO companies websites at the top of the search engines, leading traffic into client sites – is that the way we want to see search results? Would we be then calling this spamming? I know I would….

You can bet your a$$ they are! WT have been doing this for as long as I can remember.

I agree there is nothing wrong with pushing their PR, we do it, but it has to be used in conjunction with a proper organic link building campaign.

The only thing is I don’t see any benefit here – they’re simply canabalising their clients serps. Te wine shop isn’t anywhere to be found on that query or ‘wine online’.

Check out ‘wine online ireland‘. There they are at #4 and the client site nowhere to be found.

Nothing wrong with pushing their PR per-se. But from what I can see it’s not doing clients any good. I wonder are the client sites using Adwords campaigns?

They won the contract for the online marketing of the website and used their own PR to help boost the other websites traffic. They do the same with hotels. Have a look at 9th result.

Nasty piece of blackhat I would say!