I added this to the EMD moan last week:
This site is a 5 month old EMD and was ranking at #12 for a long time and dropped right out of the top 100.
The content is uniquely research written by my own inhouse guy with a college degree, custom theme, unique photographs etc. so I felt it was bulletproof and was really sickened that the above atrocity happened in perfect synchronisation with Cutt's "weather report".
Anyway, the other thing was I experimented with a couple of what may have been unnatural linking practices and I felt this may have been the real cause of the above. I felt that with all the negative SEO crap I've been reading that these links poisoned the domain and that was the end of it, time to start again with a new domain.
A week later with no extra link building, here is the graph as of right now:
New goal - get this bitch to #1 in the next 6 weeks. Got this playing in the background:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M]Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day (HD) - YouTube[/ame]
tl:dr; Don't throw away those EMDs just yet
Thanks Matt
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This site is a 5 month old EMD and was ranking at #12 for a long time and dropped right out of the top 100.
The content is uniquely research written by my own inhouse guy with a college degree, custom theme, unique photographs etc. so I felt it was bulletproof and was really sickened that the above atrocity happened in perfect synchronisation with Cutt's "weather report".
Anyway, the other thing was I experimented with a couple of what may have been unnatural linking practices and I felt this may have been the real cause of the above. I felt that with all the negative SEO crap I've been reading that these links poisoned the domain and that was the end of it, time to start again with a new domain.
A week later with no extra link building, here is the graph as of right now:

New goal - get this bitch to #1 in the next 6 weeks. Got this playing in the background:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M]Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day (HD) - YouTube[/ame]
tl:dr; Don't throw away those EMDs just yet