Feeding Frenzy for Keyword-Rich Domains

[snakeair]

Title get your attention? This is a long one and i do hope you read some of it or all of it before posting your feedback.

It's a well-known fact in the SEO world that Google shows enormous favoritism in its rankings to domain names that contain one or more of the keywords being searched for. If your domain name is a close match to the search keywords all glued together, it's as easy as fishing with dynamite to get on page 1 of the SERPs for that search phrase. While some (like me) might argue (like, against Rand) that it's a flaw in the algorithm, it's not a bug--Google deliberately favors this kind of match. If the search is a company name, well the reasoning why [that phrase] .com should rank #1 is obvious...and for everything else, well...it's pretty reasonable for Google to...

For the full article and source: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/its-a-fee...rdrich-domains

Comments and advice would be great.

[janklaza]

This is sort of old news. The best place to buy domains is auctions.godaddy.com, unlike sedo.com they actually have really reasonable domain name prices. For most local stuff like [city name] [profession] you can usually find at least one net/org/com available to register