Were you affected by the EMD algo update?

[Test-ok]

If I were looking for a little red bird, I would hope my search terms would take me exactly to www.littleredbird.com, or .net, or, .org

Why would you hope that?

lets say littleredbird.com was just a site with no content, but a bunch of crap that wasn't to your interest...and the only reason it ranked high was because they bought littleredbird.com or net ect.

I would hope to find a site thats going to answer my question about the little red bird...even it the url is Macksbirds.com.

Does that help?
testing in the multipurpose room 9 am sharp.

[DeeperStill]

Why would you hope that?

lets say littleredbird.com was just a site with no content, but a bunch of crap that wasn't to your interest...and the only reason it ranked high was because they bought littleredbird.com or net ect.

I would hope to find a site thats going to answer my question about the little red bird...even it the url is Macksbirds.com.

Does that help?
testing in the multipurpose room 9 am sharp.

I do see the logic in that. And since I am a person who went to little red bird and only found phoney stuffed birds, and legalistic turkey birds, and ravenous vultures.. it would indeed be nice if Google filtered out those phoney sites so that Id be directed to the real ones.

But I guess google wont listen to my experiences with little red bird.

hahah

" the names have been changed to protect me, the innocent.

[seothomas]

What is an Exact Match Domain.

Lets say there is 1000 searches for

"Keurig Coffee Maker"

every month.

you would then buy the domain keurigcoffeemaker.com

in an effort to rank for that term. Your domain exactly matches the targeted keyword phrase

Hence exact match!!!!!!

[DeeperStill]

Lets say there is 1000 searches for

"Keurig Coffee Maker"

every month.

you would then buy the domain keurigcoffeemaker.com

in an effort to rank for that term. Your domain exactly matches the targeted keyword phrase

Hence exact match!!!!!!

Thank you for the explanation.

[DeeperStill]

test ok,

I confess, I do have a few dents in my halo. In truth, if you were to remove it from over my head, and look inside at the branding, It's gold plated and made in china.

It tarnishes very easy with to much wear.

<grin>

[1leads]

LOW QUALITY = HIGH VALUE CPC TERM

With thousands of EMDs with similar content, mostly HD videos on youtube and a ton of relevant links.

The EMD's that got shot down, ALL WERE CPC in the 5.00+ per click range

So if Google can make money on that term, they killed it, the 'low quality' thing is complete Matt Cutts BS.

Google is a complete whore, if they can make money, they kill you.

Look at how they're redesigned serp's the past 2 years making organic seo below first view on almost any local term, they pushed maps, and now maps is barely showing

What's in FIRST VIEW now?

3 top left ppc ads, 8 right side ppc ads and maybe 2 map listings

Where's the organic seo?

IT DOES NOT EXIST

Now if you were lucky to keep an EMD high on page one usually out of first view, that was killed off by the EMD button IF the domain had a high cpc value

So when you put a ton of time and money into doing thousands of HD videos and promote the heck out of YOUTUBE for years, the EMD was usually #1 organic, it was the FORMULA, promote google product YOUTUBE with quality HD stuff, they kissed you, then they started to promote maps, moved EMD's below maps then they killed all EMD's no matter the content as long as the CPC was above around 5.00 which is almost the line where most local clicks fall above now

EMD was really a HIGH VALUE CPC KEYWORD play

To force all local EMD developers to BUY PPC

[Redskins2012]

What about websites that do not have an EMD.com but there sub folders such as whatever.com/boats/ or whatever.com/silverjewelry/pendants/ etc..

is it just the Root domain or complete url structure?

[DarrenHaye]

What about websites that do not have an EMD.com but there sub folders such as whatever.com/boats/ or whatever.com/silverjewelry/pendants/ etc..

is it just the Root domain or complete url structure?

You should think about this logically.. and then you will know the answer.