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What’s in an Exact Match Domain Name? Dominating Google Rankings With Exact Match Domain Names

May 26, 2012 by Joseph 21 Comments

Straight up – I’m discussing the very recent findings of Jon Leger, who carried out a fairly extensive and very recent study of how exact match domain names are faring in Google search – post Panda, post Penguin, and post any other Google algorithm updates that few of us are aware of.

Apologies for the lack of images in this post. The post is not overly appropriate to using images, really. Or maybe I’m just gettin’ lazy

Now, if you’ve been working in SEO – with the main focus being Google search – for any length of time, then you will already know that Google provide a bias to exact match domain names. If you don’t know what an exact match domain name is, you can read about it here…

What is an exact match domain name?

Well, as it turns out, post the Penguin algorithm update by Google which was rolled out towards the end of April, exact match domain names (let’s call them EMD’s) are ranking very nicely indeed in Google’s search!

But, Jon took this research further and assessed a number of EMD’s that had high rankings in Google for their exact match keyword phrase and found that not only are they still ranking very well, but many of those that are ranking have an inordinate amount of exact match keyword anchor text linking to the site’s homepage.

In fact, some EMD’s he found that were ranking in Google’s top ten for their related keyword phrase had as much as 100% of their backlinks containing the exact match keyword phrase to the homepage.

Do the 40 Days Warrior Challenge Methods Still Work?

April 29, 2012 by Joseph 106 Comments

Do the 40 days Warrior Forum challenge methods still work?

This is a question I’m asked fairly often so I’d like to provide the answer here.

Pat Flynn emailed me the other day to see if any of my sites had been dumped after the recent Google algo update. Fortunately, because I’m now using the 40 days methods for all my ranking work, I was able to tell him that yes – my rankings were sticking nicely.

Let’s take a look at a couple of websites that I’ve been using the 40 days challenge methods on.

Firstly, my blog.

I’ve never SEO’d my blog before (other than on-page), which may seem odd but I tend to rely on word of mouth more than anything. I’m now also using Twitter to fairly good effect too, I may add.

I thought I would use Backlinks Genie to try to rank a webpage on my blog, and I started doing that about 3 weeks ago.

By all means if you’ve not already seen my video on using Backlinks Genie, its over on this webpage… Backlinks Genie Review.

Check the two screen shots below which I took from the Google AdWord keyword tool’s US rankings.

Do You Worry About the Quality of Your Backlinks?

October 22, 2010 by Joseph 42 Comments

I read something today online about quality of links and what works and what does not work and what have you, and I gotta say that I like the attitude here – a lot!

What the chap was saying was along these lines.

Its all very well to read about what sort of backlinks are real good quality and which ones are trash. And its all very well to read from the guru SEO’er that what works right now in that you can obtain real hot Google rankings will NOT WORK TOMORROW. And quite frankly, I don’t give a s..t (sorry about that, but its too true, because nor do I!).

My philosophy whilst doing the Warrior Forum Challenge was to utilize quality backlinks and you will be blessed for doing so by Google. And I still advocate that, but I also think that if you want to mix it up that much more, then by all means get rubbishy links too. Oh and ouch, do pardon me!

What do I mean by rubbishy links as opposed to traditional and quality links?

I Make Money Online Because I CANNOT HOLD DOWN a JOB

July 12, 2010 by Joseph 25 Comments

Joseph Archibald in Malaysia - Live the Internet Dream - be Free

That post title is an oddity, I’m sure you agree. Usually it would be the case of “I work a 9 to 5 because I can’t make enough money online”.

But the reason I work full time online is because I CANNOT HOLD DOWN A FULL TIME JOB! I’m rubbish at it and my attitude is terrible! Hence if I were to fail at working online then my lifestyle (living the internet dream, so to speak) would fall apart at the seams!

Okay, just a quick update today, if I may.

Looking forward to Oscar’s progress regards to his 90 Day Challenge. Already its shaping up very well and I suspect many of us (myself included!) will learn quite a lot from his methods and his ability to focus. Oh, and he’s now about to begin living his own “internet dream” – Barcelona here we come!

Onwards… my own name domain name (josepharchibald.com).

I did not manage to get any backlinks off to the website over the weekend, nor today (Monday) either. After all, there are other priorities so one or the other has to take a back seat.

Nevertheless, the site is now ranking in Scroogle – up from 72nd a couple days back, to 57th as of today.

I see there are just a few backlinks showing up in Yahoo Search Engine, which is odd because to my knowledge I only created the single link and that was some 4 days ago from an SEO tips and tricks post (this blog).

But it must be due to the few backlinks the domain has that its climbed up rather nicely in Scroogle within just a couple of days.

Too Many Bright Ideas is a Bad Idea! How to Make a Mess of Internet Marketing

July 6, 2010 by Joseph 18 Comments

Notice the post title is very nicely optimized – not! How many characters? About 80 I think, hence it will succumb to be-heading by Google . I’m such a pro at this! But then, could I care less? I’m sure for all those who know about on-page SEO and stuff, they would ridicule my efforts on this site. Even more because its supposed to be an SEO tips site.

I should have opted for a domain along the lines of http://howNOTtoseo.com

I had to go and get my passport “chopped” today. Its not possible for almost anyone to become a permanent resident in Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak is on the south east island of Malaysia – next to (joined to) Indonesia. Very close to where that terrible Tsunami of 2007 occurred, but secluded entirely from the effects of it.

Even folks who were born in the state “next door” cannot gain residence status here in Sarawak. And they have to go in and out of Sarawak to get their passport stamped every few months. However, its not necessary to go in and out of the country every 3 months as it is in Thailand or Indonesia. You simply must go to the local government office to pay for a “chop” and normally you would receive a further 2 months stay for the price of £20 ($30).

I was fortunate today however as they provided me with leave to remain here for 93 days for the same price. Its amazing what you get in return here when you are polite.

If you ever want to live a great life, and at a much lower cost of living than that of Europe or the US (generally speaking, anyhow), then you should consider South East Asia.

Just checking the rankings for the UK domain I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Looking very good indeed, which suprises me – I thought this sort of movement upwards would have taken a little longer for some of the keyword phrases as it is for sure a hotly-contested top 10 in Google. When you consider the money that is on offer for the high rankers, you would have thought it to be highly contested, anyhow.

AdSense Income for June – OUCH!

June 30, 2010 by Joseph 7 Comments

Today’s post I really need to keep nice and brief – I’m currently inundated with “stuff”. Yes, all SEO-related. Much of it being my own sites, much of it being sites that I am assessing for other people. I would say “clients” but I will refrain from saying that for now.

Anyhow, I would like to offer up some very rough stats regards to my monthly income. Month of June. Its a tad early to be providing the stats but its obvious what is going on here so I thought it a relatively decent move to share it with you.

(I just spent a short time in the sunshine sunning myself – I was looking like a ghost after spending such long hours indoors banging away at the old keyboard, so it was high time to spend time out in the sun. Problem is that, if you fall asleep, you either wake up looking like a lobster that has just been boiled in a pot of water, or like a prune that’s 4 years old… one or the other…).

AdSense income for June. We’re just moving into the last day of June and I gotta say that my AdSense is the lowest its been for almost a year.

One can jump to the conclusion that this is due to the Google Mayday algorithm change. And yes, I certainly feel this is a factor. Many of my previous efforts are ‘thin’ sites which target longer tail keyword phrases, and therefore I think I will be seeing a reduction in traffic, as many others have been witnessing too.

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