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I'm not sure if you're aware since most of you are mostly involved in domain names business on this forum, but recently google introduced a new update with name penguin or webspam update.
The point is to reduce web spam and among many things many webmasters noticed that search ranking with exact match domains had been affected a lot.
I can surely state that the era of minisites with exact match domains are now officially ended. I own myself several exact match domains which I had turned into content websites in and from April 24 traffic most of those have been hugely affected , they simply went from position 5-6 to 50-100 or even nowhere.
I remember the times that exact match domains were dominating in google.com with that search terms even with minimal amount backlinks and low quality content , but now even an average internet user will be able to notice that exact match domains are almost disappeared from search ( unless they are really well developed and valuable sites )
In conclusion I think that nowadays exact match domains has very little advantage in term of seo over random domain, thus I expect in near future to see prices for these domains to go down since there will be no point for web developers ( end users ) to spend big $$$$, it'll be much wiser to spend money on quality content since these domain will no longer gonna help them to obtain desirable ranking.
The point is to reduce web spam and among many things many webmasters noticed that search ranking with exact match domains had been affected a lot.
I can surely state that the era of minisites with exact match domains are now officially ended. I own myself several exact match domains which I had turned into content websites in and from April 24 traffic most of those have been hugely affected , they simply went from position 5-6 to 50-100 or even nowhere.
I remember the times that exact match domains were dominating in google.com with that search terms even with minimal amount backlinks and low quality content , but now even an average internet user will be able to notice that exact match domains are almost disappeared from search ( unless they are really well developed and valuable sites )
In conclusion I think that nowadays exact match domains has very little advantage in term of seo over random domain, thus I expect in near future to see prices for these domains to go down since there will be no point for web developers ( end users ) to spend big $$$$, it'll be much wiser to spend money on quality content since these domain will no longer gonna help them to obtain desirable ranking.