Keyword rich domains

[ShashankGupta]

Can you share your experience about Keyword rich domains; do they still hold same value as before?

[rester]

I have been struggling with this questions myself lately too. After the recent updates, i have been Googling around on various keywords. Basically i used words like product location and started searching on various industry. Some interesting notes i found:

moneylender "location" -  top 3 sites occupied by a site with the same design and obvious link wheel. The design of site consist of just 3 images each with their own h1 linking out to 3 different money site(i hate this term) below is some text with links that goes out to the exact same site designs.

Private investigator "location" - did a search on this as i had a friend with me at that time in this industry and the top result that came out is a site that no one in the industry has any idea whom it belongs too (and this is a small industry here where everyone knows each other). Curious i checked more and discovered that the site has another website with a TLD that end differently. eg:privateinvestigatorlocation1.location1 and privateinvestigatorlocation2.location2. Both sites has the same text and design! only changes was the location1 was changed to location2.

3rd search SEO location -  the number 1 site has a pa 1 da 1. 0 back links.

over and over i did searches and honestly the results are disappointing for me. Got troubled by it and decided to invest in tools like seo moz and this just got me even deeper into the confused zone