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I found the answer to this question from a few years ago, but a lot has changed with Google since then. Would a technique with the one described here still work? Things have indeed changed since that article: A year later in 2012, Google released an update to its search engine algorithm that was aimed at leveling the playing field for websites that relied on using keywords in their domain names, otherwise known as Exact Match Domains (EMD) . There's a good breakdown on it here . Prior to that, SEO black hats were registering large numbers of domains that were rich in keywords, and providing thin or unrelated content for them, with the expectation that search engines favored them in keyword...
Full answer by dan: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/53585 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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