My EMD sites are making a comeback! Wtf?!?! :D

by aliendrummer

Posted: 11 years ago 23 replies

Just logged into Adsense earlier this week to find out a bunch of my EMD sites created before the dreaded Google EMD update are back in rankings and making money.

The confusing part is I have literally done NOTHING to these sites, focusing my time on my sites that weren't affected/penalized and building them into "niche/authority" sites, instead of the 1-5 article micro niche EMD sites.

Researching right now long tail keywords and going to start cranking these into more authority like sites, with more useful user content.

Anybody else see any returns from the abyss? And if so have you done anything to them to help them come back?

#comeback #emd #making #sites #wtf

Arowana 11 years ago

I am checking all my emd sites everyday and there's no improvement yet...
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- supereek 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Arowana
  
  I am checking all my emd sites everyday and there's no improvement yet...
  
  same.. only1 is standin its ground strong .. but its an authority site. my microniche sites are still in the toilet
  
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BarryOnline 11 years ago

There's going to be a lot of fluctuations over the next couple of weeks.

Matt Cutts has announced that there will be a Panda update rolling out this week, followed by a 'big' Penguin update.
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dennis09

11 years ago

Funny someone brought this up. I was checking Serpfox a little while ago and noticed that a few of my "churn and burn" sites seemed to have risen from the grave and are getting a decent amount of traffic again. These sites are also EMDs but I removed Adsense from them once they got hit.

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aliendrummer

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dennis09

Interesting, I never took off the Adsense on the sites that got hit. Just got discouraged and thought it wouldn't matter in the long run. Cheers!

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cagliostro 11 years ago

My EMDs, 6 months old, are ranking in 30-40 place but bounce sometimes. I have build very little backlinks and NONE with the keyword of the domains. The EMD keywords are med competition.

So EMDs were never dead, apparently.
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- Maecenas23 11 years ago
  
  I said EMDs can't die just because they are EMDs in more than 100 posts
  I have some EMDs coming back while others were never penalized.
  
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dadamson

11 years ago

I have seen this happen many times over with my clients who have EMD domains, sometimes they get hit and then other times they come back stronger than ever. I don't think Google has quite made up their mind half the time

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aliendrummer

11 years ago

Originally Posted by dadamson

Yes defiantly weird.

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linkbuildr 11 years ago

Perhaps ranking flux signalling the coming Panda update...usually things go up the day before and then they go back into oblivion. 99% of the EMD sites I see from AMers are garbage.
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roberthughes 11 years ago

Same thing on our end. Although Google does jump an awful lot these days, so be sure to continue checking regularly.

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PerformanceMan 11 years ago

Enjoy it while it lasts....
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TuNguyen 11 years ago

I think this has more to do with the affected sites content and backlink makeup than the fact that they are EMDs.

Regardless, i suspect that this is just a temporary side affect of whatever update Google is rolling out.
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priyarana5 11 years ago

There are coming many updates time to time. Now coming days, Google panda & Google penguin are become update.
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theactor19 11 years ago

What is weird is that I lost half of my google traffic yesterday!! And my site is not an EMD, it is an Authority Site, that is fully credible, no black hat, eveything is natural, with excellent content. I have no idea how I lost my rankings for a lot of keywords (I rank for many keywords).
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Rocketboy 11 years ago

Something is going on becasue some keywords that never ranked is know ranking on the first page and other keywords that was ranking yesterday is now gone.
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ToniMaltano 11 years ago

Same thing here. I don't know what's happening but I am seeing crazy jumps in positions on a daily basis. One day a site gets 200 visitors, next day the same site only gets 20 visitors and on the third day it's 400.

It's crazy.
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- fortony 11 years ago
  
  Sites often go up and down, even when you have done nothing to them.
  
  People talk as if EMD is a bad thing. While it may not offer much, if any, SEO benefit anymore, I seriously doubt it will hurt a site.
  
  In other words, what is happening to your sites, apart from the initial drop from losing the benefits EMDs once offered, probably has absolutely nothing to do with the fact they are EMDs. There are so many other things that could do it.
  
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smodha 11 years ago

This is quite interesting as my EMDs never went away in the first place. They're still ranking and getting decent traffic.

In 2013, I have stopped with EMDs and moved to the authority model for longevity.
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manishak 11 years ago

I think it is a wise idea to move on from EMDs to more authority sites. The EMDs may again tumble. But if this is on wide scale, then it is good news!
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pcmatt2011 11 years ago

I noticed it shortly after the last update last month.
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pcmatt2011 11 years ago

Matt Cutts said there will be 10 roll outs this summer.
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Klemen Znidar 11 years ago

How did changing micro sites into niche authority sites worked for you (: ?
Are they worth it in your opinion?
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