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    We have been hit with the "Doorway Page" Penalty - fixed the issue - Got MSG that will still do not meet guidelines.

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    • LVH
      LVH last edited by

      I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES / NO
      My site's URL (web address) is:www.recoveryconnection.org
      Description (including timeline of any changes made):

      We were hit with the Doorway Pages penalty on 5/26/11. We have a team of copywriters, and a fast-working dev dept., so we were able to correct what we thought the problem was, "targeting one-keyword per page" and thin content. (according to Google)

      Plan of action: To consolidate "like" keywords/content onto pages that were getting the most traffic and 404d the pages with the thin content and that were targeting singular keywords per page.

      We submitted a board approved reconsideration request on 6/8/11 and received the 2nd message (below) on 6/16/11.

      ***NOTE:The site was originally designed by the OLD marketing team who was let go, and we are the NEW team trying to clean up their mess. We are now resorting to going through Google's general guidelines page. Help would be appreciated. Below is the message we received back.

      Dear site owner or webmaster of http://www.recoveryconnection.org/,

      We received a request from a site owner to reconsider http://www.recoveryconnection.org/ for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

      We've reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines.

      In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from http://www.recoveryconnection.org/ may not appear or may not rank as highly in Google's search results, or may otherwise be considered to be less trustworthy than sites which follow the quality guidelines.

      If you wish to be reconsidered again, please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines. When such changes have been made, please visit https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en and resubmit your site for reconsideration.

      If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.

      Sincerely,

      Google Search Quality Team

      Any help is welcome. Thanks

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      • SteveOllington
        SteveOllington last edited by

        It could be that you're a little over-optimized. On this page for example: http://www.recoveryconnection.org/addiction/alcoholism.php

        Near the bottom, you have three anchor text links all near each other, all pointing to the same page of http://www.recoveryconnection.org/detox/alcohol-treatment-detox-programs.php

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