Links to your site are the #1 key to getting excellent pagerank - domain name is way secondary to the number of links going to your website. Look at Wikipedia.com or Monster.com or Yahoo.com or Google.com . Their rankings are based strictly on the number of links going to them. Domain Name has very little to do with anything. It's nice to target a long-tail keyword in a domain name but really - get backlinks first and foremost and your ranking will skyrocket. By the way, the backlinks do not necessarily have to be related specifically to your website keywords. That may change at some point in the future.

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