Help with Google Penalty

**guyguy** · 28-04-11

Hi i am looking for some help with overcoming a google penalty for Doorway pages. If anyone could help please let me know
Sean

**sandy007** · 11-05-11

What is your website URL?

**guyguy** · 13-05-11

Website URL is Flybe Destinations - UK and European Flights

**dietcola** · 17-05-11

what makes you think it is a penalty?

seems to me like you have been intensely building links recently and perhaps over done it a bit.... ill figure how to upload you the image...

http://justlinkbuilding.com/wp-conte...link-spike.jpg

try that...

does it ring true that you have been link building with anchor texts recently?

Other than that... im not sure - there are a few ways to get back but depends on why you were banned...

all the best.

**Bud** · 17-05-11

justlinkbuilding.... is that your site dietcola? You've got me curious....

**dietcola** · 18-05-11

indeed JLB is me Bud...

Glad to hear its made you think...

here is a link to a post i wrote about building links too quickly and getting banned... the image is the most important part as that explains how to build inline with your competitions acquisition rates.... the graph above was produced by the tools on majestic seo - i think you can draw similar graphs without paid membership if you want to look at any of your own websites or competitors backlinks too.

Organic Backlinks form Natural Rankings | Holistic Search Marketing

all the best

**guyguy** · 06-06-11

Originally Posted by dietcola

what makes you think it is a penalty?

seems to me like you have been intensely building links recently and perhaps over done it a bit.... ill figure how to upload you the image...

http://justlinkbuilding.com/wp-conte...link-spike.jpg

try that...

does it ring true that you have been link building with anchor texts recently?

Other than that... im not sure - there are a few ways to get back but depends on why you were banned...

all the best.

Hi the vast majority of links come from from one site who adds a link on their posts, they post several times a day. Google speciffiacclay said the problem was with doorway pages.

**Steven-AS** · 06-06-11

From Google

Doorway pages are typically large sets of poor-quality pages where each page is optimized for a specific keyword or phrase. In many cases, doorway pages are written to rank for a particular phrase and then funnel users to a single destination.

Whether deployed across many domains or established within one domain, doorway pages tend to frustrate users, and are in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines.

Not saying this reflects your website, just wondering how you think this might relate to your website?

**guyguy** · 06-06-11

Originally Posted by Steven-AS

From Google

Not saying this reflects your website, just wondering how you think this might relate to your website?

Well i have made many changes to the site since receiving the original message from the Google Webmaster team, however they have come back to me a 2nd time indicating that there are still problem pages. As an aside i gather it is unusual for the Webmaster team to communicate with Webmasters.

Sean

**Steven-AS** · 07-06-11

Just thinking out loud. Maybe the suggestion is that you have created a site with the sole purpose of directing users to a single destination. A Google algorithm possibly flagged up your website for some sort of review. If you are receiving messages from real people then it is likely someone took a quick look and agreed with the algo.

**stuwils2000** · 10-06-11

I think looking at your site as a user would help. Looking at your right hand menu why would you not have a heading of "Flights from" then just the locations as links for ease of scanning and selection for the user.

The below looks like the link is for anchor text only

Flights from Aberdeen
Flights from Belfast
Flights from Birmingham
Flights from Bristol
Flights from Cardiff
Flights from Doncaster

**wilwak** · 10-06-11

Are Flybe ok with you using their trademark in the url?

It'd be a shame if you put lots of work into the site and then they objected to it.

Maybe that's why Google banned you? It's just an affiliate doorway site to Flybe.

If you were ranking well for people searching for the real Flybe site then that may expalin the ban.

If that's the real reason for the ban it's unlikely you'll reverse it ever.

**jam2009** · 13-06-11

Originally Posted by wilwak

Are Flybe ok with you using their trademark in the url?

It'd be a shame if you put lots of work into the site and then they objected to it.

Maybe that's why Google banned you? It's just an affiliate doorway site to Flybe.

If you were ranking well for people searching for the real Flybe site then that may expalin the ban.

If that's the real reason for the ban it's unlikely you'll reverse it ever.

Totally agree with this. Check with Flybe that your okay to use their name without trademark infringements. It would be a shame to pour in hour and hour if the site is to be banned in Google.

**guyguy** · 14-06-11

Originally Posted by wilwak

Are Flybe ok with you using their trademark in the url?

It'd be a shame if you put lots of work into the site and then they objected to it.

Maybe that's why Google banned you? It's just an affiliate doorway site to Flybe.

If you were ranking well for people searching for the real Flybe site then that may expalin the ban.

If that's the real reason for the ban it's unlikely you'll reverse it ever.

Flybe are fully aware and gave permission for the use of the URL. Most of the traffic for the site came from the long tail, less than 5% was for flybe related keywords.

**CRebecca** · 29-06-11

Did you clear all the doorway pages for which you were penalized?

Because Google will revoke the penalty for clean website after 2nd crawling.
Scan your website completely to make sure everything is right.