Still Buy EMD's ?
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eternalwarrior
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- Oct 7, 2012
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All my EMD got slapped! Will never go for EMD. The ages of EMD is over. It's time to go for authority sites.
Authority = a site whit lots of content?
weruncompanies
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- Feb 15, 2011
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No thanks, I'm authority + affiliate/CPA..
julia adam
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- May 29, 2011
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True believe it or not, the EMD period is over. Go for it if you wish to get hit like others. Authority is a better option now.
gullsinn
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- Dec 24, 2009
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EMD Are still working mate, all you have to build a high quality emd website.
- Mar 27, 2012
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You know when they say EDM were penalized it sound to many as if there were blacklisted but that is not true.
EDM simply just rank higher than non EDM because of the keywords.
Let's assume that before the "devalue" of EDM which i prefer to call that way rather than penalty were ranked this way, just an assumption thou.
EDM 80%
Non EDM 55%
After the devalue of EDM:
EDM 55%
Non EDM 55%
No preferential treatment anymore, all domain now rank equally, it is now based on the type of technique you use.
EDM simply just rank higher than non EDM because of the keywords.
Let's assume that before the "devalue" of EDM which i prefer to call that way rather than penalty were ranked this way, just an assumption thou.
EDM 80%
Non EDM 55%
After the devalue of EDM:
EDM 55%
Non EDM 55%
No preferential treatment anymore, all domain now rank equally, it is now based on the type of technique you use.
Scritty
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- May 1, 2010
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EMD slap (for commercial terms) was a reduction in the extra value given to them by Google.
It still seems to have a little value (though not enough for the old" sniper" tactics of an EMD and not much else to work any more)
Advertising in the first 720 vertical pixels of a URL was the single biggest SEPR's nerf of the last 3 months
From terrible if an ad is at the top, to "still not brilliant" if it is under the first 200 and up to 700 pixels from the top.
Of course you HAVE to advertise if you are in IM, but the fact remains - the biggest slap July to October 2012 wasn't EMD - it was overt commercialization.
So clever placement is best. and try to never have any ad block in the first 200 pixels at all.
I mention this because do many MFA sites were EMD's AND had advertising right at the top - sometimes just below the banner
If you owned one of these sites It would be easy to think the EMD slap was the cause of the sites SERP's slip - in most cases it would have been the advertising placement
Scritty
It still seems to have a little value (though not enough for the old" sniper" tactics of an EMD and not much else to work any more)
Advertising in the first 720 vertical pixels of a URL was the single biggest SEPR's nerf of the last 3 months
From terrible if an ad is at the top, to "still not brilliant" if it is under the first 200 and up to 700 pixels from the top.
Of course you HAVE to advertise if you are in IM, but the fact remains - the biggest slap July to October 2012 wasn't EMD - it was overt commercialization.
So clever placement is best. and try to never have any ad block in the first 200 pixels at all.
I mention this because do many MFA sites were EMD's AND had advertising right at the top - sometimes just below the banner
If you owned one of these sites It would be easy to think the EMD slap was the cause of the sites SERP's slip - in most cases it would have been the advertising placement
Scritty
dollarzz
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- Aug 10, 2010
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Or a broad EMD where you can write atleast 20k words of content for or choose a little wider for example: of you want to write about walmart coupons. choose www.groceriestoreinfo.com or www.groceriesstorescoupons.com whatever. Build some sort of authority within the domain and your good to go.
Dan Da Man
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- May 31, 2011
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And what would you say to sites that were slapped that had no advertisements at all? Let's say e-commerce sites for an example
SmartMan
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- Jul 25, 2012
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John, your findings is correct but you just wrote EDM instead of EMD. Listening too much Electronic Dance Music?
Webs2Be
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- Oct 4, 2012
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Yes, EMD's are still good to buy. The recent EMD update we saw from Google was targeting EMD's with low quality content and poor links. As you might have seen my thread over the last couple of weeks, I registered a brand new EMD and within 10 days got it ranked to the first page and is now sitting at position 1 so EMD's are still good you just need to have quality content and quality links.
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keptman
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emd are still good just make sure you build a quality website, instead of just relying on only the domain to rank your site
