The Exact Match Domain Penalty

On sept 28th and with a new refresh on Oct 5th, Sites that were EMD ranking were filtered and collected through a new procedure. Google then could determine if these sites were trying to abuse from exact match.

Many EMD specially adsence sites were deranked at this time.

Seems that sep 28th was bye bye to most of the exact match domain sites. But not to all of them. So why some were hit and some others were not_
Sites whose home page EMQ ranked were hit by the EMD Update if the home page was overoptimized, some others say that Having a large percentage of all links pointing to the home page and very few links pointing to each of the other pages of the site

Personally i think that it will be very hard to overcome this penalty, as there is no way of changing the main thing that determined it, : YOUR DOMAIN NAME.

However, for those lucky enough that were not hit by this penalty, there are some indicators on what you need to do in order to stay clear and safe.
Cause not ALL exact domains were penalized....

Seems that the sites also suffered loss of rankings if the anchor text of more than 30% of the back links was the exact match kw, or less than 40% of the back links being dofollow. It might be too soon to say though. What do you think about this matter?

 

It's best to just start with new domains and with a whole new strategy. Google doesn't want us over optimizing our sites, they just want us to focus on the user experience by providing relevant, timely content in various formats (i.e. images, slide shows, videos, etc).

I hope this helps!

 

I really think it was just overoptimization of the EMD's keyword.

The EMD sites I work on increasd in rank and pages went from PR0-1 or 2

 

Rubbish, you are one of a VERY few, great sales technique for your services

 

Check other forums.

Ranking is going up if you know what you're doing.

We're taking the places of your sites, I guess.

 

Yes, i totally agree, a new approach is needed.

 

We will be glad to see proof

 

Proof of what? If you don't spam then you won't be de-ranked, even if you have an EMD? Just stop spamming and you will then have the proof yourself.

You mention proof, but what you wrote is already wildly inaccurate. On 28 Sept there was an EMD Update (0.6% of queries), but also coincidentally a Panda Update (2.4% of queries). However, the Panda one wasn't mentioned at the time. Most likely a lot of people who thought they were hit by EMD instead were beat senseless by Panda. As for 5 Oct, it was a Penguin update (0.3%), not EMD!

So far, even in part of your first sentence you have made a mostly inaccurate claim and with no proof. Do I need to go on to the rest of the rubbish you posted? Because it's all certainly junk.

 

No they don't... They want you to spend money on adwords.... lol

 

Speaking of algo changes. Did anyone notice the effects of the Penguin 3.0 that Google released today on their EMD's? SearchengineLand - http://searchengineland[DOT]com/google-page-layout-algorithm-update-135847

 

yea, because NOBODY is receiving organic traffic anymore... (sarcasm)

 

For the spammers maybe.
But how do you think to do this for old brand sites which use white hat methods of growth?

 

If the white hat site got hit too, and it was relying only on Google traffic, then yea, I'd say start fresh. Start doing topic research vs keyword research. Check out the video in my sig for more info on this topic.

 

its so simple, in order to get ranking in Google SERP follow the guidelines of Google and also their regular algorithm updates.

 

Seems you are right, and this is what all of us will have to follow now

 

. Did anyone notice the effects of the Penguin 3.0 that Google released today on their EMD's?
I havent seen any effect yet, i guess is too soon to see, but i would love to hear some others comments on it. Anyone here has an opinion on this new update?