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I have ranked 2 Exact match domains in the last 2 months.

by AlmightyGreg
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I get why some might think google greatly devalued exact match domains but, to be honest, with some old seo and some good content you can still rank these domains a lot easier than regular domains.

I also have a mix domain (half keywords half branding) and no problems at all, ranked really well for a low-med competitive keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheContentAuthority
    Greg,

    A lot of people had the misconception that the EMD itself was what Google penalized when in fact it was just indirectly related to their algorithm update. The fact that website owners were using EMD’s was not the target of the recent update that wiped many of them off the SERP’s but rather those owners were doing a variety of other things that got them demoted and they happened to be using EMD’s as a part of their strategy. Google (or any other search engine for that matter) really doesn’t care what URL you use as long as you have quality content and you don’t appear to be deceptive in your practices. EMD’s were never a target to begin with.
    This post talks more about the subject,
    Local Exact Match Domains Still Rank - Google Algo Update
    As does this one from SEOMoz,
    Google's EMD Algo Update - Early Data | SEOmoz

    Hope that helps,

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  • Profile picture of the author impulse
    All methods are still the same, you just need to keep up to date with changes and add a few twists.
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  • Profile picture of the author impulse
    All methods are still the same, you just need to keep up to date with changes and add a few twists.
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  • Profile picture of the author jfambrini
    I will be curious as to what techniques you used. One of my EMD was hit hard and it still has not recovered on its main keyword so would be curious if I could employ the same techniques to restore it to its former glory.
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  • Profile picture of the author aliendrummer
    ^^ This, would also love to know.
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  • Profile picture of the author nhutit
    How you do it ?




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  • Profile picture of the author Campbell24
    Yeah I still like to go after EMDs too. Just don't stuff your anchor text too hard.
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    • Profile picture of the author AlmightyGreg
      Originally Posted by bathunter View Post

      Yeah I still like to go after EMDs too. Just don't stuff your anchor text too hard.
      I never did fearing google would penalize me for it. The way I see it is that EMD still hold a lot of value and someone earlier even pointed me to an interesting article that explained that google did not penalized them at all if they had proper content. I guess it all comes down to that
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  • Profile picture of the author ProSence
    Of course, Google works in the same way as it was working before, there is just a little changes which you have to understand.
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  • Profile picture of the author CTRTheme
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    Good. You should have less than 25% of the keywords in URL and use LSI keywords in h1 and h2.
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