Recently i saw post related to upcoming google algo update about Exact Match Domains, I think they are applied. Today i tried to search many Exact Match Domains but non of them in search result. Is Exact Match Domains are dead? What if you have Exact Match Domain and want to maintain in google search?
Not all EMD's are dead. There were various Google updates in 2012. Panda, Penguin and EMD.. Most websites were ruined by Panda and Penguin. EMD ruined some websites too but we are confused whether EMD hit us or not because at the same time there was a panda update too..
I difinetely dont think they are gone.I have websites that are ranking on 1st page with exact match domains.
Not actually I have few EMDs that still ranks today. So as long as the website with exact match domain has good valuable contents and informative, I don't think it will be affected.
Absolutely dont agree! there are several websites that were genuine too impacted by the update, but the majority was yes, spammy ones. cheers Josh
What is basic requirement of EMD's site? in terms of "valuable contents and informative" Any recovery method? Can any on pm me their EMD's domain so i get idea about ideal site Mine was just 1 page site now it's totally gone from google not even site:domain.com showing any result.
Basically EMD websites have the exact targeted keywords within their specific domain names. Its hard to generalize this as a rule, however if 1000 sites are pushed down in SERPs, that could only contain 10 genuine websites. Hence considering the pattern, its understandable from Google to go for such an update to punish thousands of websites who are selling products and recieving traffic ahead of real genuine ones. Regarding recovery methods from EMD updates, below article referred to shows clearly the methods the webmaster used to recover from the EMD updates on one of the websites. ref: http://orangecopper.com/blog/how-to-recover-from-google-exact-match-domain-update regards, Joshu
The website needs at least some levels of trust, like pages that lead to "Not found" is never a good thing. It can be simple as fixing those small things, theres article about this one search engine land.
site:domain.com not showing in search is a bad sign, but that is never permanant. It could be sandboxed or penalized for some factor temporarily. Continue your genuine SEO efforts and add more content to your site regularly and am sure it will show up easiliy in search. cheers Josh