Queston about Doorways

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bitsdawg

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OK I have a few dozen unqiue doorways that are scoring SE traffic from mispellings and typos. They are working very well, but its a mixed thing...you know. They look so crappy with that big ol' typo up in the heading and sprinkled over the page.

They actually do convert - which kind of surprised me - but I'm sure it would be better if I could redirect them to a page where everything is spelled correctly. So - how risky is it to set up an html redirect on the pages - or does somebody have a better idea?
 


Sorry to burst your bubble, but it seems that you are doing everything right to get a ban from the major search engines which is something that you don't really want to do. Doorway pages is against Googles Webmaster Guidelines which is really the same as redirects. 301 permantant redirects are fine with Google, but having a doorway page stuffed with keywords and then making the visitor see the proper page is totally against their TOS.
 
These are not keyword stuffed doorways - just carefully optimized for a typo used in the heading, title, and a couple of times on the page. The SE's - even google - do not penalize for bad spelling. The text on each page is different. The domain I do this on has been around for years, and does not totally consist of these pages -really no more than a dozen. But they do pick up a very large portion of my visitors and conversions - ha ha my visitors cannot spell!

Maybe landing page is a better word than doorway.

Repeat - There is no Bad Speller Penalty. But I will take your advice and stay away from redirects. Thanks!
 
No one wants bad spelled text on their sites as it is bad business sense and doesn't look good, but I must admit, because of this the people that do have bad spelled words on their site will gain traffic from it. I had affiliate spelt as affilate or something like that on one of my pages and was getting over 20 - 30 uniques per month from that alone.
 
Yeah, it's a tough one. I actually lucked into a few great typos because of my fumble fingers and working too late at night! To fix them, or not to fix them. .....
 
I would make your site more professional if it didn't have spelling mistakes, but then this will mean that you will have to change them resulting in the loss of the traffic from the spelling errors type into googles search box.

So it's must be a tough call for you to decide what to do.

Forums must get a ton of traffic from spelling mistakes.
 
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