rfgdxm1 - 5:36 pm on Jul 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

I'm not sure that you really disagree with me egomaniac. I never wrote that it is impossible to rank well without keywords in the domain. You mention that you have "2 other domains with keywords in them that are ranked #1 for similarly competitive keywords." And the site without the keywords in the domain is #3. In my book #1 beats #3. ;)

I suspect you are right that it isn't that Google favors directly domains with keywords, but keyword domains have the edge because of people tending to link in the form of [keyword1-keyword2.com...] My point is simply if the focus is ranking as high as possible on Google, all things being equal having keyword in domain name has an edge.