EMD all but disappeared but now BOOM, Page 1. What happened?

by laird

Posted: 11 years ago 10 replies

I've had a particular EMD in the diabetic niche (1,110,000 results) that fluctuated between the number 6 and 10 spot for a year and then last year, all but disappeared into the ether. Well beyond page 50.

Google mailed me an adsense check yesterday which caught me offguard since I let all my adsense domains expire except the diabetic one...

After looking at my adsense reporting, this is what I find:

Jun: $ 1.45
Jul: $ .84
Aug: $ 1.97
Sep: $ .07
Oct: $ .34
Nov: $ .89
Dec: $ .51
Jan: $15.36 <---
Feb: $19.71 <---
Mar: $29.55 <---

What happened in January for this EMD to jump back to the first page of Google? Did a major update come out that favors EMDs?

#boom #disappeared #emd #page

smodha 11 years ago

The latest Panda update didn't target EMDs. From what I've read, Google penalized sites with rubbish content, backlinks, and unnatural anchor text.

Although I don't build EMDs anymore, the existing ones haven't been effected at all.
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- Mike Anthony 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by smodha
  
  Although I don't build EMDs anymore, the existing ones haven't been effected at all.
  
  ROFl.... say what??????? Come again. or did you mean "my" instead of "the"?
  
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  smodha 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mike Anthony
  
  ROFl.... say what??????? Come again. or did you mean "my" instead of "the"?
  
  Yeah, typo. It should say "my" existing EMDs.
  
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nik0 Banned 11 years ago

Wow that are some nice numbers! Free 500 bucsk/month, now let's hope it will last.
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markwilson4074 11 years ago

I also noticed a "bounce-back" effect for my EMDs... never know what really happened and what brought them back!

But its nice to see some traffic and $$$
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KingRoyal 11 years ago

I hope EMD's are favored because I have an excellent one!
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kilobytestechnologies 11 years ago

i have experienced many times from past month that low quality EMD's are back..
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aliendrummer 11 years ago

Same thing here. I'm not complaining
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laird 11 years ago

I'm smacking my head though since I let some 12 EMD's go, a couple of which in their prime brought in about $600/year each and last year less than $20/year each.

Not gonna complain about the free money. Goes to my daughter's Hawaii play fund. :-)
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rjames 11 years ago

very common misconception that Google penalized EMDs, but that couldnt be further from the truth. What Google actually did was penalize sites for over optimization...which just so happened to included a ton of EMDs...
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