Matt Cutsts just announced a new Google update



Damn...this guy needs to get a fuckin' hobby

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oh wait, does this mean you won't be able to buy an EMD and slap 300 words of 3rd world gibberish on it and rank?

boo


fucking


hoo


I could not give less of a fuck about this.
 
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Many fucks were given.
 
I see exact domains hit - and holy shit, there are some good & big sites hit.

If you was not thr authority for that term, then there is a good chance you got tanked.
 
aw, I got hit.

seems like this update was:

if you have keywords in your domain name AND your pages have less than 500 words = SLAP

exception given to all youtube pages

/end update
 
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Site #1: 3 word EMD, 2 pages ~500 words piece. #1 before update, #1 after update
Site #2: "Brandish" sort of domain name (not EMD), 25+ pages, 1k+ words per page. Rankings lost on many if not all keywords, doesn't rank for its "EMD" term either (think ebay.com not ranking for "ebay").

Not sweating it since I already know how to fix it. Just sharing something I found interesting/mildly humorous.
 
Of course is ebay.com ranking at #1 for ebay :-)

Even the adwords add on the top is from them.

Oh, i see one of my older trashsites... Its an EMD but for sub keywords in the URL i match 2 parts of the 3 match too..

Like XYZ/aYZ/ and XYZ/bYZ...

Ok, google seems to hate that now like nothing.
Well, its ok, i hated that too.
 
Site #1: 3 word EMD, 2 pages ~500 words piece. #1 before update, #1 after update
Site #2: "Brandish" sort of domain name (not EMD), 25+ pages, 1k+ words per page. Rankings lost on many if not all keywords, doesn't rank for its "EMD" term either (think ebay.com not ranking for "ebay").

Not sweating it since I already know how to fix it. Just sharing something I found interesting/mildly humorous.

Well crap I got a PM asking me how to fix it... I didn't really mean to allude that I know some secret or something. I just meant adding more links and content :)
 
Well crap I got a PM asking me how to fix it... I didn't really mean to allude that I know some secret or something. I just meant adding more links and content :)

Lol, I was just about to send you a pm too.

I don't understand why your #2 site would have gotten hit by this update...
 
Site #1: 3 word EMD, 2 pages ~500 words piece. #1 before update, #1 after update
Site #2: "Brandish" sort of domain name (not EMD), 25+ pages, 1k+ words per page. Rankings lost on many if not all keywords, doesn't rank for its "EMD" term either (think ebay.com not ranking for "ebay").

Not sweating it since I already know how to fix it. Just sharing something I found interesting/mildly humorous.

Same here. My "brandish" domain names with tons of content and over 750+ word articles were penalized while my thin EMD sites did not change at all.
 
^^ so have we concluded that this was once again a psychology ploy by the ever so cunning Cutts to polarize what is actually working really well still?


P.S lol @ tags