Recovering from EMD update?

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is it possible to recover from this?

how about if i bought a random domain name and copied the content over as a new site altogether? my keyword and domain would then be different..
#emd #recovering #update
  • Profile picture of the author AdamDowning
    Maybe if you de-indexed your website. I don't know where you'd stand on the content being copied. I'm currently ranking an EMD, and it's ranking fine. Saying that, it's a new website, going to run it as a trial to see just how affected EMD's are.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot2
    my domain had its 1 year bday last week. 3 days later its gone from 30 / 40 uniques per day to 1 or 2.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by coolspot2 View Post

    is it possible to recover from this?

    how about if i bought a random domain name and copied the content over as a new site altogether? my keyword and domain would then be different..
    I would venture to say it is the content that is the problem more than the EMD, so just copying your content to a non-EMD site is probably not going to get you ranked.

    As far as if you can recover from this... Well, it just happened. Nobody can honestly tell you if you can or not. It's only been a few days.

    However, there are tons of EMD's that are still ranking in variety of niches. I would analyze those sites, compare them to yours, see what they are doing differently and try to emulate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot2
    all of my content was unique, however i think here was a bit of keyword stuffing. ive started to remove that keyword term. i wonder if this will work..
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    • Profile picture of the author SEO Haven
      Originally Posted by coolspot2 View Post

      all of my content was unique, however i think here was a bit of keyword stuffing. ive started to remove that keyword term. i wonder if this will work..
      That's the right move right there, analyzing your keyword density and rewriting/adding content to existing pages that previously ranked well.

      Some of our clients also got hit by the latest update, some as recently as today. The sites that were hit 2 or more days ago already showed improvements in rankings after some content was slightly edited, so you're definitely on the right path towards recovery.
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by SEO Haven View Post

        That's the right move right there, analyzing your keyword density
        I wouldn't waste time analyzing keyword density. I would just read your content. If it sounds like shit and feels like you are stuffing your keyword in there to the point that it compromises the readability, fix it.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot2
    but, if the site has been slapped doesnt that mean its been sent to a black hole? likelihood is that it will never get crawled again, thus never seeing the changes made to re-rank? even if it does get crawled, chances are its been tarred and will never hit page 1 again..?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Google still crawls sites that are deindexed.

    From what it sounds like your site just lost some rankings. It will get crawled.
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    • Profile picture of the author tamtu
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Google still crawls sites that are deindexed.

      From what it sounds like your site just lost some rankings. It will get crawled.


      Do you really think so, I believe my sites have not been deindexed but they were hit by the penguin update and I am sure since then Google has not crawled my home pages because as soon as I got hit I changed the title tags for some of my sites but even after nearly six months I still get my old title when I search for my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Focused Action
    Here is a good post from Lisa Parmley, she really produces quality products and analysis, and does everything she teaches!

    Exact Match Domain (EMD) Update « InlineSEO.com
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  • Profile picture of the author ownergolan
    Add content like hell - wait it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lonnie 4
      Great post Becker... For all the haters shove it... I have been doing seo for many years and have learned tons from Becker this year alone. I actually have seen almost exzactly what he it talking about with sites that got hit and sites that dint in are portfolio. No issues with our sites tht were not over optimized and set up with many pages deep of content. Others where I was milking emd got killed. So keep up the good work man.
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  • Profile picture of the author brainworker
    Here is an interesting analysis of EMD's which survived the update
    Recovering From EMD Update | Garry Page Anti SEO Slap
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  • Profile picture of the author coolspot2
    Becker13s report says that sites unaffected had cloaked links i.e were kinda good.. i thought google considered cloaking as grey / black hat??
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