Do .CO domains rank up just as easy as a .com domain?

[MarketingOfAmerica]

I have ran across a very good .CO domain and am thinking about making it into one of our main websites.  I have no experience with them.  I have used/bought just about every other domain type out there, but I have never used a .CO yet.

The domain I was able to purchase was seobusiness.co  for $5.00 - regardless if I am able to use it for our main brand if they don't rank up the same, I will use it for something else.  The site isn't up yet btw, so  no need visiting it...

The keyword gets 1600 exact hits a month give or take a few of course - thats just the Google tool estimate.

Matt Cutts says that they can rank up the same, but I am looking for more than this.

Does anyone have some proof that .co's can rank up?  I hate to put 2-3 months of solid work into this to rank it up for SEO business and it doesn't want to rank due to the .co.

Thanks in advance for your time.

[SoftzSolutions]

I think there is much difference between .co and .com but comparatively it is easier to remember a .com domain than a .co domain. And do not take it otherwise, it appears that you are betting big on exact matched domain. I hope you are aware of its caveats. After EMD updates, it does not make that sense to go for exacted matched domains.

[MarketingOfAmerica]

Hello,

I have 11 exact match domains for SEO and I rank for every one of the keywords 90% of the links are to the domain itself and not an exact match.  I have a 1% density on most and highest of a 3% density for the exact keyword and ranking for them on every site.  I feel that the exact match domains are still working to an extent.

Also the EMD updates didn't mean exact match was going to just be gone forever, it just meant that it wasn't going to help you as much.

Have a great day.