Keyword In Domain

Don't try to add Keyword in domain. Try a unique brand name.
"Keyword In Domain" with recent Google changes, is a SPAM trigger.

The extra e would lessen the value of the main keywords by a little bit, but
in theory you would have the keywords in your url. Which does not have the power it once did, but still has some.

As was mentioned above, it might be a "flag" (not a trigger) towards spam, but I believe if you don't have a few flags, it shouldn't matter.

The best URLS are short and easy to remember, in this case the original URL will probably have a higher rank, and also be confused with yours, meaning more of your customers would probably end up there, than the other way around.

You might also end up with problems like mine where planetbargain is mistaken as me, and I noticed even uses my url to trigger their adwords.

The exact match domain(EMD) and partial match domains (PMD) has lost its important what was in past for sure. But still it holds the edge. Your case is about PMD. My advice for you is to create a great website which users and Google find worth to use. Google's algorithm for EMD and PMD is for low quality website. If you have EMD and running bad website Google will push your website back. But if you are running a good website, EMD and PMD will help you to achieve good rankings in quick time.

EMDs aren't a big deal when ranking pages in Google SERPs, the problem is a lot of people act like EMDs are ranking their pages so they don't have to do any SEO. Good luck with that.

I haven't seen any sign of a penalty for EMDs or even having a variant of the keyword in the domain.

just about every search in Google I do I never see an EMD, or very very rare, on fist or 2nd page.

Amazon, Google etc have millions of web sites and none are EMD'S but the keyword is always in the URL , amazon.com/"product name or keyword here" so I don't see why you can't have just one domain like they do and do add on or directory type URL'S since Google does not like EMD'S anymore.

Of course that is just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Don't go for EMDs, go for a domain that contains cyclingbike and add some word at the end for domain availability. And for on page SEO, you can include the exact keyword on Title tag and H1. I've been doing good with that. What you can also do is type different searches about the best + product/keyword in google and see the top results to get more idea.

Yes you could still rank on that keyword but here what you need to understand is as the person bestcyclingbikee is taken by you and the third person you need to rank yourself rather than some other individual, what i mean is both the parties is trying to rank themselves in the search engine by their work and the person whose work seem to be more genuie is going to get rank in the search engine.

Let me take and example to show you what is happening here suppose there is a keyword "mobile application development" which has most number of hits in the Google search engine and there are thousand of site that are targeting the keyword mobile application development but not all of them are ranking in the top of the search engine and this is where the role of search engine optimisation arises. Now what SEO's guys will be doing is they will optimise the site in such a way that in that on that keyword the probability of ranking their site goes up rather than the other competitors.

So, I guess now you must be somewhat clear about the ranking and the the keyword in the search engine.

Creating two sites on the same niche when site A has a keyword rich domain name and site B does not have keywords in the domain name. Create the same layout type and use the same title even if you care, keep the same keyword density if you want to build content within or simply leave it with just one file inside using the targeted keywords, build same amount of backlinks to site B as you did to site A (if possible even backlinks from the same site), wait a couple days to get indexed and check the rankings of both sites for the targeted keywords, the result will most probably (and I have done such experiment already) will be that the keyword rich domain will rank higher in the SERPs.

You will rank if you do proper seo work, backlinking from relevant trusted sites, social links, a useful site that gives people what they're looking for.

In 2014 putting keywords in your domain name has zero effect on you ranking, as it should

EMDs don't matter. It won't help or hurt you rankings. At least this is what i have experienced.

You can still rank a domain perfectly well even if it doesn't have any keyword term in it.

What matters is the onpage SEO..

EMD is not as important as it once was. Go for creating a brandable name instead.

keyword in domain is no more important! You can use any domain. Using keywords in domain is not recommended thus adding e in your domain will make it difficult for people to target each of the website by direct typing URL in a web browser! It is better to try to have an unique domain where misspelling errors are not obvious.