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Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about EMDs?

by Joel Young
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Since the latest Google update, lots of people have been complaining about their EMD sites getting whipped. And yet I have one that's still very high on the first page of results. It is a review site, and at this point it's the only third-party review site for that particular product (Web hosting company), which may be the reason it survived the update.

Or maybe I'm not totally understanding why a lot of EMDs are taking a big hit while mine sits pretty? Can someone shed some light on this? ...not that I'm complaining of course. :p
#emds #misunderstanding
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Maybe this week isn't your turn ?
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  • Profile picture of the author boxoun
    Because its more than domain name it's low quality emd which tend to send many spammy signals
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  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    Thin pages with EMD are getting hit hard
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    • Profile picture of the author Captain_Morgan
      Originally Posted by HenrySEO89 View Post

      Thin pages with EMD are getting hit hard
      Not really i still have some that are 1 page sites that are ranking on page 1
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  • Profile picture of the author startlingseo
    Agreed. EMD sites that used to get a lot of traffic and popularity are the ones getting slapped. A lot of sites that I've had clients contact me about are beyond help... 3-5 articles and a domain that just looks and sounds spammy for example get-a-cash-advance-today.something. Sites are being dropped by Google everyday so what might be here today may be gone tomorrow. I've been advising people to freshen their content and tone down the keyword usage. We're still not 100% on how high the keyword % should be before you get slapped, but we're experimenting.
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  • Profile picture of the author bsbear
    It's just the low-quality EMD's. The ones that were purely riding the EMD train to get rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author RajSrivastav
      One of my website also still in First page as it as. Hoping Google degradation on next update
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  • Profile picture of the author Beardo
    Plenty of EMD survived. Search for "carrot recipes" the first spot in an EMD. It doesn't have so many pages either. But it has quality relevant links to it and it provides exactly what people are looking for
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  • Profile picture of the author Joel Young
    Okay, getting a clearer picture of how sites are affected by this now. This is encouraging, since it appears I did everything right. Even when I search using only the product name, my review site is the second one on page two. All page one results are for the product's site itself.

    Thank for all your replies!
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