Mike - Are you still seeing site rankings for exact match domain names with thin content given the latest Penguin update?

Andy

Amakar,
if you have bad backlinks from spammy sites and spammy content YEP... they get nailed

but if you have almost no backlinks and are using it for a landing page from google places with a BUNCH of citations they rank like gold..

Penguin didn't touch places...

and penguin is a lame update... the spammers now can do negative SEO on people, and to keep doing the same spam junk they have always done they just add junk phrases into the spin text of anchor phrases...



the content is thin in that there isn't MUCH there but I do end up with about 450 words and it is obviously a lead gen site...
so a manual review (and google is becoming more and more dependent on them which is not a good idea) with a manual review it is labeled as not spam due to its a actual offer for a local service for local search phrases related to that service.

it can lose ranking from penguin but only 3 of the ones I have up have (about 72 for myself and clients)

penguin is more about the spammy back links from what the testing is showing (basicly is your back link anchor text is above 20% for any specific keyword we saw a drop for all rankings which was about 7 sites on the server)

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