alika - 5:35 pm on Sep 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

However I've often wondered if it's because of the keywords in the domain name or because that domain gets links naturally with the keywords in the anchor text.

I have a 1 week old website where the only links come from my 2 other sites and my Twitter posts (no retweets yet or tweets about my new site), but it is already #1 for its search term which is its domain name. This is a fairly competitive keyword with about 306 million search results.