farouk111 - 8:34 pm on Sep 30, 2012 (gmt 0)

Hi Guys
my site got his severely by the exact match domain update. i lost 15-20% of traffic (initial estimates that may be corrected)

the site is only one domain and it has 2000 different articles, 97% of the traffic (if not more) comes through the articles themselves not through the main page so why was i hit by that update?

the only explanation could be that google targets full URLS not domains - for instance example.com/how_to_get_over_depression

could be it be that they hate to see an exact match in the url? (and yes i have many of them)

[edited by: tedster at 8:45 pm (utc) on Sep 30, 2012]