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Thanks for your time and great advice Ryan,

I will fix these issues and hope that'll be enough to rank again. Here's my plan:

• Create new URL structure for news: Use dash instead of plus or underscore character, remove all non-alphanumeric characters
• Fix trailing slash problem
• 301 redirect old URLs to new categories/articles URLs
• Create pagination for category pages: 15 news article links per page, to lower the on-page link count
• Redesign category pages to include more text: Will add teaser text for each news link, not just for the first one

I'm not really sure what did you mean by:

"- Even the http://www.chorder.com/news/new_gear/Epiphone+Introduces+Ultra-339,+ES-339+PRO,+Toby+Standard+IV+and+Toby+Deluxe+IV+110/ page is duplicate content from all the individual guitar pages."

Can you please explain? Thanks.

In July 2011 we started a news section that has it's own 'subfolder' /news/  (http://www.chorder.com/news/new_gear/, http://www.chorder.com/news/gear_deals/ etc.)

The whole news section is dropping in&out of Google SERP's since late October, as show in attached graph.

All news texts are real deal, written by our own staff, linked from homepage.

Any idea why this happens and how to prevent it?

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Hey, I was reading this discussion and I'm just curios to see if you had any success with reconsideration?