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Old 2013-03-12, 11:25 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Ms Naughty
Google just booted my one remaining top 5 entry to the back of the index. I'm really perplexed as to what is going on but it seems to have decided that if you have your keyword/phrase as the domain name, you're a spammer. Because that makes so much sense.
I feel your pain. That EMD Update that kicked in last September is continuing to hurt a lot of people who have Exact Match Domains.

You can find some recovery tips...

http://www.google.com/search?q=exact...domain+penalty

You probably (like most of us) have a lot of links pointing to your site that use the words in your domain's URL as the anchor text. If that's the case you'll definitely want to dilute that to make your link profile seem more natural to The Big G.



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