I just found yet another keyword with high search volume somewhat competitive where yet another EMD site is dominating with its spammy fucking name. And picking up tons of similar traffic over equally optimized domains with greater PA and DA. My question is: 1) Is there any reason that google in the future will somehow cripple EMDS with names like "howtoloseweightreallyfastifyourfathq.com", provided that everything else on your site is good? 2) Does the typical user actually look at the domain under the title and see your EMD and go "fucking spam site" and click on something like "weightlosswatch.com" instead. Im not trying to make an authority site here, just a small niche site.
Emds still work though they are not as powerful as they may have been in the past. Those still ranking with them obviously know what they are doing. The better your backlinks and onpage factors, the higher you could rank.
1) I doubt they will "cripple", maybe just remove all the benefits and make them like any plane domain name. Who knows... 2) Depends on the user, I don't think you can pinpoint what will people generally do, maybe some prefer familiar authority websites and others see EMD and think that's perfect for what they are searching, I personally would check out EMD before the other. But EMDs still work awesome, take advantage: (jumped in 1 day: EMD, onpage stuff, no links)
