Speculating on 'what if's' is truely a waste of time but as I sit watching my ambatchdotcom seocontest seo contest entry bounce between 3rd and 2nd position I got to thinking. What if. What if I'd had a keyword rich domain name with the words ambatchdotcom seocontest instead of my broken up version ambatch-dotcom-seocontest.com?

I've been pretty steady in the number 3 position and Age Magician has dominated number 1 for most of the contest but what if I'd had a better domain name?

I checked a few variations on the key phrase and interestingly enough, this is what I found

ambatchdotcom - 1st position

ambatch contest - 1st postion

ambatchdotcom seo - 1st position

ambatchdotcom seo contest - 1st and 2nd position (indented)

ambatch seo contest - 2nd position (after ambatch)

ambatch.com seocontest - 2nd position (after ambatch)

seocontest - 7th position (the first ambatchdotcom seocontest entry in the list - the others are carcrasherdotcom seocontest entries)

I don't know if this all means I'd be in first spot if I had the ambatchdotcom seocontest domain name - but what really irks me is that I did buy a better domain name after I started with this one but didn't promote it. I think it's too late to start now!  I am now convinced that a good SEO practice is to ensure your target keywords are in your domain name.