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Have spent today emailing potential end users - have had three replies already saying that normally they would be interested, but due to the recent algorithm update they have no interest/need...
alian51 said:So the bottomline is, this is an END-USER problem related to content quality. Then why are the Domainers getting rattled to the bone?
GeoFan said:For low-competition, micro niche, local business branding, EMD value will still be there. :imho: I see many GEO+profession EMDs with minimum quality sites still ranking #1 — as long as the niche has not too much competition.
Thanks for thinking of me, but I'm having a huge problem right now due to the Google Exact Match Domain modification of their search algo.
I hope your site isn't being killed as mine is, but since you have an exact match domain, I fear you're losing traffic as I am. (100,000 page views a month before, lucky to get 40-50,000 now. Nothing has changed, just Google's algo.)
So, while I would love to add XXX.com to my stable of domains, I'm can't even think of it right now.
Cheers and good luck,
XXX
Being at this moment some kind of pessimist-skeptic, I am wondering . . . What if Goog sees the domain name market as a competitor for ad revenue? If the PERCEIVED value of keywords in the domain name market goes down, there could be more money to be spent on PPC?
They definitely did not do this for fear of the domainer market or to make EMD owners into Adwords customers. If "poor quality" sites includes all the MFA's and thin affiliates which were riding on EMD's, you can't use Adwords to promote those kind of sites. It's against Adwords program policies.
Google was taking a lot of flak from the webmaster community about money-grab EMD's pushing out genuine businesses. A LOT of flak. Did I say a lot? A lot.
Think about what would make Google target one domain vs another. After all, brand names are also EMD's (for the brand) and it wouldn't be good to take those out. So how do they differentiate?
An established geo site on placename.extension is a first page result on search for "placename", and is the top result for some other searches with placename + accommodation, weather, travel and so one. It provides real, unique, usable information wanted by visitors. Until one day it totally disappears from results searching for just "placename" but stays in the same top position as before for searches for placename + keyword ?
As for using adwords to increase placement, this is going to be a nightmare for you if your already complaining about how Google already ranks your site with minimal content. Adwords utilizes quality control methods as well and those who do not meet those quality control standards will pay thru the nose like always for good placement. That is a no brainer for anyone who has ever used adwords before
Google doesn't want crappy sites to rank at the top, this makes sense to me, maybe this will push domainers to develop better sites... Most domainer sites really suck, I wouldn't rank them highly either..
Happened to me a few times. Say for example, i own "phantom dot com" (just an example). Buyer didn't like my asking price. So he got "thephantom dot com" for just reg fee. Now he ranks on top of search, because he is more focused developing content for this single domain, while i'm too busy with my 400+ domains.
use bing
The bottom line is: Google isn't everything. I'm glad I learned that early in the game. Keep domaining and continue on. They'll need more of our money soon and they'll change their "make up our own rules on a whim when need-be" attitude.