MFM – Episode 8: How the Google Exact-Match-Domain Update has affected our micro niche sites – with Spencer Haws

Most of you are already aware that there was a Google update this weekend that has had a big impact on the niche website making community. If you haven’t read about it yet you can find out about it at the following resources: Webmaster World, Search Engine Land. The gist is that websites with the domain name as the keyword that they’re trying to rank for will no longer have as much as an influence when it comes to ranking websites in Google as they did before.

There’s a lot of theory and speculation about this update so far, but Spencer Haws’ (from NichePursuits.com) and I had the chance to have conversation a about the following:

1. What streams of income is Spencer currently earning from?

2. How did the Google Exact Match Domain update affect Spencer’s and my websites?

3. Has the value of exact match domains/websites been decreased by this update?

4. Spencer gives us a glimpse into his premium version of Long Tail Pro version

Stuff mentioned in the show

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NichePursuits.com- Spencer’s hub website where he talks about his online marketing ventures

My niche website is now up and running with some content! As planned and discussed here, I wrote 1 in-depth article targeting my primary keyword of “best survival knife”. I have basically spent the past 10 days researching and learning about my chosen niche and then creating something useful. So, in my post today, I [...]

Niche Website Theme- A theme Spencer and Chris Guthrie developed especially for Niche Websites. Now you can customize the colors, layout, and feel of your site without ever touching a piece of code. Quickly and easily optimize your site through automatic ad color blending and variation testing.

Spencer’s biggest influences include: Aaron Wall, Jonathan Leger

The Adsense Flippers’ post about how the Exact Match Update affected them

Spencer’s post at NicheSitePursuits.com about the Exact Match update