Exact Match Domains

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BumbleAdvisor

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Jan 25, 2011

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #1

Fellas-
I thought that after Panda/Farmer that exact Matches were tossed out, but I see exact matches (even .info's) ranking 4, 3, 2, or even 1 for some keywords. Even above the actual products website here and there. Did they pull that out of the algorithm?

Thanks In Advance.

 

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Hydro

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May 24, 2011

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #2

I'm using EMDs with all TLDs including .com/.net/.org/.info and all are ranking well after some backlinking showing up on top 2 pages.

 

BHopkins

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Dec 31, 2010

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #3

That wasn't ever part of Panda that I ever saw.

 

clyde

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #4

Panda was about farming out low quality sites, not EMDs.

 

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beakon

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #5

If anything I've seen increased strength with EMDs post panda. I see them a lot more than I used to in my niches on first page. Kind of annoying.

 

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reinie

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #6

I remember the speculation of it EMD loosing value...but who knows how true that is

 

ThopHayt

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #7

EMD's ought to eventually be dealt with by Google (I'm not a fan of that style rankings), but like titles they will likely always play a part to a degree. I don't see a way around it.

 

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Xyz01

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #8

If the site has good content, Google will favour your site - especially if it has an EMD.

 

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Chilli Monster

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #9

Panda had no real effect on EMD - but Google have since hinted (or was it outright said) that they may well be addressing the EMD's at the next update.

I've made a few EMD sites in the last few days - and without backlinking (aside from a twitter tweet for indexing purposes) about half of them having broken the top 10, the rest have done so with a quick SB blast

Will be a shame when Google marks down the EMD, I love the loophole!

Don't think I can link out post number wise yet so whilst there is a useful Matt Cuts video this quote should help

"Now if you're still on the fence, let me just give you a bit of color, that we have looked at the rankings and the weights that we give to keyword domains, and some people have complained that we're giving a little too much weight for keywords in domains," Cutts said. "And so we have been thinking about adjusting that mix a little bit and sort of turning the knob down within the algorithm, so that given two different domains it wouldn't necessarily help you as much to have a domain with a bunch of keywords in it."

Click to expand...

From about March, making it right for them to be investigating doing in the next big update imo

 

Last edited: Aug 25, 2011

Frogserv

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• Aug 25, 2011

• #10

Panda is about low content value.
Websites with Exact Match Domain aren't necessarily low value.