Does Exact Match Domain really works?

[ayofztk]

Hey!
I heard that exact match domain is helpful in ranking over popular keywords. I have two websites

• Tech Crunch

• SmallSEOTools

My question is, will it be helpful to rank over Tech Crunch and SmallSEOTools, respectively?

[paints-n-design]

@gujjarshb I don't think so - no penalties for EMDs. But maybe for putting links into comments where they don't make any sense....

[gujjarshb]

@paints-n-design said in Does Exact Match Domain really works?:

@ayofztk it doesn't work. Just google tech crunch and only tech crunch domain has tech crunch in domain name. A little special here, that's a navigational query.

You can rank with an EMD when the content is good enough, the popularity is good enough. Just a Keyword in a domain name doesn't help. Going away from a .com domain to something like you did ".blog" is also not the best idea,

Is google penalize that site which has EMD domain ? I listen it from many people. So kindly share your opinion.

[I.Marketing]

Agree with previous answer.
Maybe (just maybe) for a low competition niche (local seo or little searchs) you can find a .com ans easily position it.
But for any interesting web or kw nowadays I would say it does not matter. These examples are very hard kw and just with a emd you will get nothing.

[paints-n-design]

@ayofztk it doesn't work. Just google tech crunch and only tech crunch domain has tech crunch in domain name. A little special here, that's a navigational query.

You can rank with an EMD when the content is good enough, the popularity is good enough. Just a Keyword in a domain name doesn't help. Going away from a .com domain to something like you did ".blog" is also not the best idea,