Does domain name really matters?

[Bruno]

Check this domain:

www.optimizacija.com

Its my domain, it meens something like optimisation.com, it has only one word on page, optimizacija.com.

check now serps for "optimizacija":

Google for "optimizacija" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=optimizacija)
Allintitle:optimizacija (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=allintitle%3Aoptimizacija)
Allinanchor:optimizacija (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=allinanchor%3Aoptimizacija&btnG=Search) (nowhere)

Check now BL with Yahoo Siteexplorer:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=http://www.optimizacija.com&bwm=p&bwms=p&searchbwm=Explore+URL

It says, there is no BL for this domain :).

If you check other domain, they all have a lot more BL with "optimizacija" as anchor. Yes, its not big competition but again.

So its probably domain name or title tag or both. Any other explanation?

[dazzlindonna]

If you followed the v7ndotcom elursrebmem contest, you'd see that it does seem to matter to some extent, at least. It's definitely not a guarantee of a good ranking, and you can certainly rank without it, but does it matter? Yeah, it can.

[admans]

As far as I go, domain name does not help much in SERPs. Its the content, meta tags and keywords in the page and sometimes[ very rarely] in the domain matter.

Thats my point of view, I may be wrong though.

Regards,

Admans.

[hulkster]

There was also a MASSIVE number of links in the V-E SEO contest that probably had some bearing on the SERP's ... ;-)