Google Targeting EMDs

14 years ago

I said yesterday that it would effect nearly every EMD in some manner and not just low quality EMD.

Perhaps we should change EMD to END (exact name Domain) and call it the End Patch.

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TeamBringIt

14 years ago

Originally Posted by michaelplies

It came to my attention that Google decided to penalize most of the EMDs in the top.

Some very popular authority aged sites who were in the top positions got hit in almost every niche.

What you guys think about this new update from Google?

Google makes the rules and every new rule and update makes them less popular.

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Michael Oksa 14 years ago

Originally Posted by TeamBringIt

Google makes the rules and every new rule and update makes them less popular.

Less popular for whom?

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jxam69 14 years ago

Originally Posted by TeamBringIt

Google makes the rules and every new rule and update makes them less popular.

Then why does their stock price keep going up?

The only people Google seems to have a popularity problem with are IM'rs - the rest of the world seems to think Google's doing a pretty good job.
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cooler1

14 years ago

Which popular authority sites were affected by this update?

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dalegolden

14 years ago

Most of the popular sites does not contain exact match domain name. They have got some unusual domain name. They become authority sites with their user friendly contents.

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michaelplies

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dalegolden

Most of the popular sites does not contain exact match domain name. They have got some unusual domain name. They become authority sites with their user friendly contents.

there are actually lots of very popular sites ranking in 5k-10ks in alexa with emds.

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ichuck 14 years ago

Has anyone seen any examples of sites that were affected by this update? Or has it not taken place yet?
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- Carl Brown 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by ichuck
  
  Has anyone seen any examples of sites that were affected by this update? Or has it not taken place yet?
  
  Red Microwave Oven has been kicked off its throne. I guess it's the end of at least the 1-5 page xfactor sites.
  
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Jay Brass

14 years ago

It's so funny that all these Google updates like to nail things that are important to affiliate marketers. Hmmmm...wonder why that is.

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w0rrier 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Jay Brass

It's so funny that all these Google updates like to nail things that are important to affiliate marketers. Hmmmm...wonder why that is.

What do ya' think?

See post "The latest Googlee: EMD's (i.e. small "sellers" are the target ala eBay, Amazon, et. al.)"
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michaelplies

14 years ago

i believe it took place yesterday

this morning some of my friends got their authority sites completely wiped from 1st page

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JohnMcCabe 14 years ago

Originally Posted by michaelplies

i believe it took place yesterday

this morning some of my friends got their authority sites completely wiped from 1st page

I know nothing of your friends' 'authority sites', but many people seem to confuse a site with a large number of pages with an authority site. An EMD site with a couple of thousand scraped reviews and spun gibberish articles is not an authority site.

That said, if those sites really are authority sites, they should regain their rightful rankings when things settle down. Come to think of it, the garbage sites will likely find their rightful ranking, too. You just won't be able to find them...
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Becker13

Banned 14 years ago

None of my EMDs have been touched

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MikeFriedman

14 years ago

Originally Posted by michaelplies

Some very popular authority aged sites who were in the top positions got hit in almost every niche.

Really? Name one.

I have not seen any yet.

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yukon Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Really? Name one.

I have not seen any yet.

Rumor has it that hxxp://get-free-viagra-pills-for-my-wee-wee.com took a pounding.
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- wolfmmiii 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Rumor has it that hxxp://get-free-viagra-pills-for-my-wee-wee.com took a pounding.
  
  But my $2 1000-word articles that I got from my VA were high quality. It's not fair that the evil Google ranked viagra.com ahead of me. Google just hates the little guy. What gives???
  
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- GGpaul 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Rumor has it that hxxp://get-free-viagra-pills-for-my-wee-wee.com took a pounding.
  
  Wow. I failed miserably. I typed that URL up .
  
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  Tessa Holmes 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by GGpaul
  
  Wow. I failed miserably. I typed that URL up .
  
  Hey, I see that GPaul is back! Glad to have you here. You see, Warriorforum is addictive. Welcome back!
  
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  wolfmmiii 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Tessa Holmes
  
  Hey, I see that GPaul is back! Glad you have you here. You see, Warriorforum is addictive. Welcome back!
  
  He's busy with his site since it was affected very little by this update.
  
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MyNiches

14 years ago

I've had a 4 page site and a 30 page site, both with an EMD, wiped off of the first page.

I'll see where we are at when the dust settles...

The 4 page site was one I purchased, and the previous owner had done some less-than-wholesome linkbuilding it seemed like, however the 30 page site was all au natural and dare I say that I wrote all the content myself and it was quite good

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Interesting to see where we're at once things settle!

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brettb

14 years ago

My HubPages have been smashed - anyone else notice the same?

The problem though is that they had an outage on Friday, although yesterday my Hub traffic was down ~80% and there are little blue triangles everywhere.

Elsewhere most of my small niche sites are OK - funnily enough the worst hit is my real software business - so much for Google wanting legitimate sites (that sell stuff) in the top 10.

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