Doorway Page Puns

Creating pages for cities without having a physical locating there, but still able to provide the services like online services. Rewriting those pages, with some local citations. Are these considered doorway?

So here we are, finally, 100 pages. After two months of stalling and dreading picking this book up. I gotta say, I'm not super impressed by this start. We're still in generic fantasy territory here, but I can kind of see where this is going towards the end. It's certainly a better direction than everything we've gotten so far, but I absolutely reserve judgement on it until I finish this book and see how it plays out.

Most of the stuff here is introduction. It's just that instead of having a single prologue, the first chapter serves as a prologue with several different characters instead of just one.

First we see Min coming to the Tower, finally, after she was sent off by Moiraine at the beginning of the third book. She sees a bunch of death and injuries on the Aes Sedai and the warders and even the servants, suggesting a big battle at the Tower itself. Which is unheard of, apparently. Even when Artur Hawkwing was sieging the city, he never got as far as invading the actual tower. So that's alarming. It definitely tracks with what I think is going to be the course this series takes, though, which I'll get to at the end.

She gives her message to the Amyrlin, who ends up using Min, too, as a spy against the Black Ajah against her will. Which, you know, makes sense. She can't trust anyone except these two girls from nowhere, but they're gone. So now she's gonna trust this girl practically from nowhere: Baerlon.

Next we get a brief snippit with Elaida, the Red Ajah who was serving in Andor's court. She muses for a bit on how she thinks the Amyrlin and Moiraine have been hatching some plot together. Apparently she doesn't know that Rand can channel yet? Which is weird? Is that not generally known throughout the world that Rand is the Dragon Reborn and the Dragon Reborn is a man who can channel? I'm really not sure why she would be wondering if Rand can channel here. Has the news of the Dragon Reborn not spread to the entire world by now in a year or however long it's been since the end of the second book? Maybe she's been living under a rock and hasn't been keeping up with world news? idk

We then have Dain Bornhald, the son of the previous Children of the Light commander we followed in the second book, now going into the Two Rivers for unknown reasons to him. He wants revenge on Perrin, thinking Perrin killed his father, but he doesn't know why the commander sent him there. He's also been tied to this madman who was in the prologue of the third bo

I just started a new agency job and a client got hit with the local search proximity update.

They have the classic multiple pages in the footer targeted to location based keywords. The pages are pretty much the same except maybe a paragraph or two of copy dedicated to the location. There are duplicate sections across all of them.

Could this be contributing to the downturn in search engine visibility? I haven't found anything about the update that speaks to doorway pages like this. Trying to build an argument for getting rid of them. Thanks in advance!

Performing due diligence on several sites to acquire. Not sure what the best method is to check for

1. Doorway/gateway pages

2. Presence of a link farm on the site

As for item #2, I'm guessing this is done via some link checker tool recursively (e.g. W3C link checker) where you feed the homepage URL to the link checker then analyze ALL results. The majority of them should be internal; however, guaranteed to face challenges analyzing this for high sites with a high volume of backlinks.

Lost on how to check for item #1.

Thanks in advance.

So how important is having a physical location when creating city landing pages for a SAB?

Can somebody clarify exactly what is considered a doorway page? I understand they can have a few descriptions. Obviously I don’t want to fall under any of them.

So I plan on creating 2 or 3 city pages representing the big cities my client services around the region. These pages will be unique having valuable content relevant to the customer & location, as much as possible.

Doorway page: Any page that focuses on a single keyword in order to rank & provoke click through in order to bounce the user to the page of value.

Google search console also listed this description: Having multiple domain names with similar content targeting specific cities or regions that funnel users to one page?

What the heck does this mean & how does it correlate to the fundamental definition of a doorway page?

i assume that cloaking and doorway pages are same , are they really same? please do explain me with an example

Hey there,

I'm trying to figure out the best way to create pages for a local events aggregator. I'd like to be a resource for "____s near me" because there are currently none.

I know that Google has frowned upon "doorway pages" in the past, and so I'm trying to understand the right way to do this locally.

An example of my confusion -- let's use raves around the state of Georgia in the US looking at Eventbrite. If I search:

• "raves near atlanta ga" I am brought to this page
• "raves near roswell ga" I am brought to this page
• "raves near sandy springs ga" I am brought to this page

These all rank highly and have virtually the same listings content on every page. But, they seem to be in textbook violation of the following bullet from the help article:

• "Do the pages duplicate useful aggregations of items (locations, products, etc.) that already exist on the site for the purpose of capturing more search traffic?"

So perhaps I'm understanding doorway pages wrong... assuming I have a big bank of events around the United States, am I free to generate new pages with overlapping listings for every zip code that fits? The nature of my site is as a directory for events, not a local service that's trying to "leech" traffic off of other higher traffic locations.

Thank you for your advice!

This is a xpost from a Google Help Forum post on the same topic. There is also a fair bit of older discussion around the topic. Here's one firm's attempt at a breakdown...

The book would have been purchased in New Zealand, for what it’s worth. Pretty sure it had other pages similar to this, with different stories. The monster in question gave off a remarkably malevolent vibe, and was very black and hairy. The whole illustration was on an angle, and the man’s pose was one of being shocked / ready to move. The room had a wooden floor, possibly an attic or a second story of a house.

Hi all,

Yesterday Google announced an upcoming rankings update around doorway pages: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/an-update-on-doorway-pages.html

"We'll soon launch a ranking change to better address doorway pages." - Google

Problem

Even though Google link to a refreshed definition of doorway pages, it's still confusing for me and I hoped to clarify it here.

Ok so to start, it's quite clear that the following constitutes as 'doorway pages':

• When you have a series of different domains that rank in the SERPs that redirect the user to another domain once they click on it (obvious doorway).

• When you have a series of pages that are only very slightly different in how they're optimised (page 1: blue widgets, page 2: blue widget, page 3: blue widgetts) that don't offer the user any useful information / interaction, and which link to a page with the useful content - obvious doorway

These two are quite clear and that's fine, no problem with that.

However I still have no idea if it's ok to create landing pages for various terms and if we'll get hit for that. For example Google's content guidelines state:

"Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it."

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769?hl=en&ref_topic=6002025#design_and_content_guidelines

Ok so say my company / client offers loans of various amounts. We know they are typing in things like:

"30,000 business loan" "40,000 business loan" "50,000 business loan".

So we'd previously create separate pages that would be specific to each loan amount. So that when a user types that search query and clicks on our result, they're presented with a relevant result with content that's useful to them.

But from my understanding, the above example would violate Google's doorway pages guidelines no?

Then things like this confuse me:

"Do the pages duplicate useful aggregations of items (locations, products, etc.) that already exist on the site for the purpose of capturing more search traffic?"

The key word being 'useful'. If your site has 'useful' information that would help the user in their search (i.e supplementary content), then why wouldn't you have this on multiple pages? Do we have to prevent adding useful content to a particular page because it's shown elsewhere even though it would be useful to the user for a number of relevant queries?

*"Is the purpose to optimize for

Hello Marketers, I was recently hired at a small local health practice to help with creating content for their site and running a few social media channels. My new boss would like me to sit in on a call with the third party SEM agency he uses to ask questions and feel out the campaigns they're running. I'll admit that any SEO experience I have comes from the organic stuff (I was previously a freelance creator of internet detritus) and that while I have some experience with AdWords on tiny hobby sites, I'm no expert. I got access to the dash they have set up for clients, and from what I can tell our campaign largely consists of an optimized "landing page," with contact info, etc. It's not attached to our actual page in any way, except that there's a "call us" CTA that appears to route through their recording system before coming to us. My question, finally, is whether or not this is common practice. My first impression of it was that it was a Doorway Page, which Google doesn't love, but I wonder now if this is on the level because there's no link funneling to our site, just the call button.

I don't want to sound accusatory at our upcoming meeting, but I also don't want my boss to eat the cost of a bad or shady campaign. Thoughts?

Alice in Wonderland meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, except with murder.

"Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter."

There is great queer representation, beautiful language, and the need to get to the end as quickly as possible. Highly recommended!

From their latest Google Webmasters Central blog post:

> Google’s Search Quality team is continually working on ways in which to minimize the impact of webspam on users. This includes doorway pages.

> We have a long-standing view that doorway pages that are created solely for search engines can harm the quality of the user’s search experience.

The post later clarifies in 5 bullet points what it considers to be doorway pages, one of them being:

> Are these pages made solely for drawing affiliate traffic and sending users along without creating unique value in content or functionality?

My hunch is as long as you decide to go the "content-rich, become an authority" route, you should be ok. But if your site is thin, and your product pages are little more than descriptions lifted straight from Amazon or wherever else, you'r going to be in for a bad time. This update sounds like it could be just as devastating as the initial Panda and Penguin algorithm releases.

Our client has 100 franchises located throughout the United States with each location having their own website. Their URLs are formatted as follows: www.(parentcompanyname)(city).com.

On 9/22, Google penalized every single one of these sites, pushing them each at least 5 pages back in search results. While their map listings remain at the top for relevant searches, along with their text ads, their organic presence has virtually disappeared.

These sites have no duplicate content (everything that may qualify as duplicate has been properly noindexed/nofollowed) yet, Google still hit us with the “Google has detected thin content on your site that provides little or no added value” message. Thinking our service area pages may not have complied with Google’s Doorway Page Penalty Algorithm, we deleted and redirected each service area page.

After submitting a reconsideration request for every site on Search Console, the reviewer left a note saying: “We noticed multiple domain names or pages targeted at specific regions or cities that funnel users to one page/content.” We’re now afraid Google’s treating every one of these websites as ‘Doorway Sites’ and will indefinitely penalize them.

Is there a way to lift this penalty? There are a million other businesses that have individual websites for every location. Why are they penalizing us?

Would moving each location onto one site fix the problem?

Ex: www.(cityname).(parentcompanyname).com.

Will the penalty follow the business to the master site if we follow through with this? It’s worth noting that the business’ home site (www.(parentcompanyname).com) was also penalized, perhaps because each center has its own location page on the website. We really, really appreciate the help!

We want to have pages describing the venues where our services are available in each of the U.S. cities. My webmaster wants to just create links from our homepage to query string generated pages that show the results for each of these cities, without having unique content on each page.

I'm afraid we'll get penalized by Google for "little or no original content" or "doorway pages" - what do I have to do in order to make sure we're not violating their guidelines? Or am I just being paranoid?

Thanks!

Curious to know where the threshold is for doorway pages. Do you have, or know of, a website that was heavily affected by the algorithm changes? If so, can you post a link to them for science?

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2721311 -- Google's Response

I understand the change may not be in full swing, but has anyone seen anything? I only worry about one of my sites, and would rather not get my dick caught in the door.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Source: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50880

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###LOST SECTORS

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*I'm not the original poster. This is a repost with very minor edits. Original post by u/Clickity_clickity *

Jack, the Worst End User, Part 1.

I had been working as a small office's sysadmin for a little over two months when Jack was hired. Jack was a paid intern whose mother was friends with my boss's wife. Jack grew up in the wealthiest county in the state (where my Boss lives) and has had everything he ever wanted. A sense of entitlement that hung around him like the smell of five-day-old socks was the first thing I noticed upon being introduced to him as he went around the office.

"Jack, this is Clickity, our, erm...uh...tech...guy..." My boss introduces me, in that way that old bosses who don't use computers often do.

Jack extends his hand. "Oh, cool. Nice to meet ya."

I shake. "Welcome aboard."

Jack is very eager to get started doing...whatever. "Will I get a business email?" as if this is the most interesting thing ever. Adorable, I think.

"Eventually, yes. For the moment though, we have a shared email for interns on staff. I'll get you the credentials shortly." Most of the interns use the shared email for a while until getting their own. just standard procedure.

"You run the firewall, right?"

"Yes."

"So you can block and unblock sites?"

"Yes." Jack's eager smile is contagious.

"Cool! Nice to meet you." He waves and the Boss and Jack leave to go be introduced elsewhere.

Now, dear reader, you might be wondering why I would call Jack the worst end user ever given his politeness and general smiling demeanor who has some understanding of what a sysadmin is, and what a sysadmin does. That's above average when it comes to end users.

Well, we're only getting started here with Jack.

--

The first thing Jack did was complain the moment he was out of earshot. He apparently explained to the Boss that it really would be professional to have his own email given his experience and the fact that he was really more than just an intern. See, Jack knew his shit and that was that if he complained to Mother, she would complain to Boss-Wife, who would complain to Boss. And Boss, figuring an email is a small thing to ask for, had a request to set up a personalized email account for Jack on my desk within the hour.

This was not to be a good start of a relationship with one's IT Guy.

--

Day 2, I got an IT ticket for the room where the interns work. it's a

Do your worst!

I first discovered this subreddit back in August or so, and it completely opened my mind to all the amazing Scifi (or speculative fiction) out there. Thank you all so much for contributing to the expansion of my personal universe.

Thus, I feel obligated to share my thoughts about everything I've read as a result of this subreddit. I will do my best to avoid spoilers, or to keep them light at least.

Manifold: time - Stephen Baxter

• Rating: 4/5

• Thoughts: I was a huge fan of the narrative structure to this novel, specifically the drone trip >!through the future in the doorway early on, and then going through said doorway only to find a different result on the other side.!< The chapters with Sheena 5, the squid, were innovative and fun to read. Other elements I enjoyed were the "blue" children (especially the parts with the neutrinos) and the method of sending information back in time.

• Read this if: you like books exploring the Fermi paradox, time shenanigans, and Tony Stark-like characters (ego matched with intelligence), massive scale

Manifold: space - Stephen Baxter

• 4/5

• I appreciated the method of showing a different response to the Fermi paradox while utilizing the same characters from Time, and enjoyed the trip through the universe with a unique take on alien life (the Gaijin). Nemoto was a complete badass, especially with her coup-de-grace later in the story.

• Read this if: basically the same reasons as Manifold: Time

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

• 5/5

• Wow. Likely my favorite novel to discover as a result of this subreddit, and I cannot say enough good things about it – nor do I need to due to the discussions that already exist here. I will just say the moment where it becomes clear that >!Portia and her friends are giving the humans Understandings and not killing them!< is one of my favorite reveals, ever.

• Read this if: you enjoy Ark ship stories, POVs from non-humans, and massive scale

Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky

• 5/5

• I saw a lot of discussion about how this isn't as good as CoT before I read it, and yes, I agree, but the difference isn't much in my mind – I still had a blast reading this. I got to see my spider friends again, and the Nod lifeforms were absolutely terrifying, yet I felt the resolution made a lot of sense. And that ending – man, what I would give to see the continuation of this (surprisingly wholesome) story. We're going on an adventure.

• Read this if: yo

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.