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Today's question comes from Dublin, Ireland, where Adel
asks, "Some websites use their Twitter account as an RSS like
service for every article they post. Is that OK or would it
be considered a doorway?" Well, I wouldn't consider it a
doorway because a doorway is typically when you make a
whole bunch of different pages, each page is targeting
one specific phrase.
And then when you land there, usually it's like,
click here to enter.
And then it takes you somewhere, and monetizes you,
or something along those lines.
So I wouldn't consider it a doorway.
Could it be annoying?
Yes, it could be annoying, especially if you're writing
articles like every three minutes or if those articles
are auto-generated somehow.
But for example, in FeedBurner, I use a particular
service where, when I do a post on my blog, it will
automatically tweet to my a Twitter stream, and it will
say New Blog Post, colon, and whatever the title of
the blog post is.
And that's perfectly fine.
That's a good way to alert your users that
something's going on.
So there's nothing wrong with saying, when you do a blog
post, automatically do a tweet.
It might be really annoying if you have so many blog posts,
that you get so many tweets, that people start to ignore
you or unfollow you.
But it wouldn't be considered a doorway.
Hope that helps.