Exact Match Domains No Longer Rank As Well

Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that Google is going after "low quality" exact match domains (EMD) to ensure they do not rank well in the Google search results.

Minor weather report: small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality "exact-match" domains in search results.

29 Sep 12

Example - quickly weight loss tips

http://quicklyweightlosttips.blogspot.com/

Matt said this algorithm update only impacts 0.6% of English-US queries.

New exact-match domain (EMD) algo affects 0.6% of English-US queries to a noticeable degree. Unrelated to Panda/Penguin.

29 Sep 12