FROM THE FORUMS #13 Malikbhai 19 September 2023, 6:16 a.m. Private Member EMDs work if you’re an actual brand name that sells services and products. And people around the internet link to you, write about you, media, press, etc. You have people opening up Reddit, Quora, Trustpilot threads about you and so on. Then on top of that, your content is up to the same level as the ones that are already ranking, OR, the search patterns from searchers on Google are so strong that their algos are forced to accept your EMD as an actual company. Then, and only then, will your EMD rank for the keyword, it’s made up of. For example, BetOnline.ag and SportsBetting.ag don’t rank because of their keywords, but because they’re actual bookmakers that have millions of clients, and tens of thousands of links on the internet that prove that they SELL products/ services, and aren’t an informational site. And even then, it will have the same “smallish” level of boost in search as a high-quality country-TLD would. All in all, EMDs have no value for Google Search. Zilch. For increasing CTR, provided you’re ranking for a reasonably commercial term (highly unlikely for 99.9999% of the people that post on GPWA), maybe it can help a bit, though I don’t even believe in that. “ Reply With Quote #14 content 26 September 2023, 3:24 p.m. Public Member I’ve seen other SEOs on the internet claim that it has no effect. I found that not to be true. I rank #1 for my exact match domain name, and from nearly launch I was ranked near 1-2. And by exact match, it’s a new TLD, and the key phrase is completed by the gTLD ending(.comers will tell you it’s impossible, the gTLDs are bad for SEO and do not factor in to ranking or SEO). With that being said, my site is new, and the rest of the entire site is pretty much sandboxed for every other term/page. Heading into month three, I’m hoping that will change. The three-word long tail key phrase my domain is a match for is not searched nearly as often as I thought it does, though it gets a click hereand-there (so far pretty much the only clicks I get from Google) and impressions every day for both the exact match phrase and a synonym exact match. The first two words of the domain would be part of a lot of searches, so far has only blipped in the radar once for that one in 80th place, not significant at this point. And while the three-word long tail is low competition, my brand-new site ranked above multiple other longer established sites for the handful of other sites that have the exact match (including the word in my gTLD ending) in the page titles (most their home pages), before I even started building links. Whether it will mater in the long run for other searches involving the first two words of the domain is yet to be seen, so far not. “ Reply With Quote #15 Bennett Dawson 26 September 2023, 3:31 p.m. Public Member Using EMDs will always be an advantage. In fact, some of your non-anchor links can be counted as anchor links due to the presence of the keyword in the domain name. It works so far. “ Reply With Quote Having a great domain maybe will do more for branding and trust, but that still has to be earned. You will always need great content and a solid means to be different and have a niche. G P W A t i m e s . o r g 18
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