Google EMD

Why Matching Your Domain Name with Keywords No Longer Works

By Tenisha Mercer For years, SEOs have managed to almost instantly obtain higher rankings by using “exactmatch” domains — using keywords as domain names, such as teethwhitening.com or RoofingAtlanta.com, for example. That all changed in September, after Googled announced algorithm updates — called EMD — that focused on spammy or low-quality exact match domains. To [...]