Its amazing that it has worked for at least 8 years.
I was thinking this as well lol.
Its amazing that it has worked for at least 8 years.
But I think it's dead.
ding ding ding ding ding
Want to rank a commercial term right now?
Don't have an EMD for the term in your url (unless its super hyphenated which doesn't count) + buy lots links with random anchors + buy a few links with the anchor term from relevant authority pages + focus on a page other than the homepage + onsite the term on the page
you win easily.
Want to fix your site?
While I can't confirm this will work yet, go find out which page on your site IS still ranking for the term (hopefully its not your privacy policy) and do above for that page, and build random links to your homepage.
Those that do something to fix their rankings are obvious SEO'ers because the reality is they are trying to manipulate their rankings back to where they were. Those that do nothing are not SEO'ers and will regain their rankings later because they did nothing. Almost like a trap.
I know it seems conspiracy theoriesh, but conspiracy theories are fun.
Your thoughts on this?
Bro, you just need to do white heat SEO with natural contents.
i think you will get your ranking back from these.
EDIT: Remember that Google doesn't hate SEO'ers, they hate spammers. Matt Cutts loves Rand Fishkin and Rand Fishkin loves Matt Cutts.