For those of you who don't receive my newsletter here is my latest article on the value of domain names. Please give me your feedback. I tried to explain it and hope I did a good job. Let me know what you think http://www.1stsearchenginerankings.com/2007/01/14/the-weight-of-the-domain-name-in-google/
No not necessarily. Excessive amounts of keywords and dashes is bad. I am not sure how well google can tell what a keyword is in a domain without dashes. I assume they use the copyright name and backlinks to decipher that to some degree but then I also think the none dash domain version is generally the best. Having a choice over both I would probably pick the second mentioned. In Google I think google is pretty darn good at figuring it out and having the non-dash version is probably best but in msn and yahoo(specifically msn) I have seen alot of things which lead me to believe the dash version will rank higher for those keywords. I have both dash and none-dash domains and they generally both rank well for their keywords. Hope that helped.