Interesting Thing About An EMD I Brought Back To Life

I definitely have some penalized sites i can try this with, when i get around to them.

True enough. I think it's easy for all of us to try and extrapolate a lot from a few cases. In reality, Google has BILLIONS of pages indexed.

That said, people were talking about dumping their whole websites because of this update. Unless they have TONS of links they don't control, it might be worth trying some serious recovery efforts first.

I think it's amazing how Google now 'knows' what a page is about and shows the title they want you to see. They're so pushy

I agree. I also think that a lot of it has to do with the number of diverse IP addresses already linking in. It's going to be hard to 'dilute' 1,500 links from separate IPs.

If you're creating the links yourself you can call them whatever you want. I would go for some naked links myself. The anchor text is ALREADY in the link because it's in the URL. There's no need to keep hammering it home.

If you can't find any High PR places to link it from, at least submit it to sites like Reddit. Also Tweet it and Facebook share. The key is to just get it crawled as fast as you can. Then use the cache: command to make sure Google has credited the changes.

If you don't have a lot of backlinks and you control the anchor text, I think you can get out of this pretty rapidly. Report back if you get results.

About 450 words on the main page and 175 indexed pages. About 70 of the pages were 'pretty thin' and the the rest are from a blog. The blog was pretty well written, but the posts were pretty repetitive. The content was nothing special. Just a typical website 'pushing product.'

Do you have a URL?

That's great. I can't say I read your guide, though. I do this for a living and followed common sense guidelines I use for clients who end up on the wrong side of Google.

I wasn't claiming any sort of authorship of these concepts. I'm just reporting so that it gives some of my fellow stricken Warrior some hope

I know how depressed people tend to get when their site gets hit. After doing this for years, the only penalty that really sucks is the one where Google sends in manual reviewers who de-index your website.

If people are still ranking for 'theirdomain.com' but not for their 'EMD phrase,' that pretty much means you have a phrase-based over-optimization penalty. The RX is to de-optimize the links and content to where the ratio is once again 'okay' for Google.

This 'EMD penalty' is automatic, so just keep tweaking until you get it right and you 'pop back in.' Never give up and never surrender! The only time I'd suggest anyone dumped the domain if they have 1,500 or so IP range links they don't control linking with exact anchor. If you went that far, you probably won't be coming back.