Thank you for your quick responses. I'm not going to purchase other domains such as xyzwebdesign.com as I'm only going to be SEOing one domain, in particular it will be xyz.ca, I do however own xyz.com and xyz.net and will 301 redirect those to the .ca.

Because I'm a company in Canada I figure I should optimize my .ca,  and make that my main domain and not my .com.

I'm creating a website for my new web design company in Vancouver. I'm looking to target such keywords as "Web Design Vancouver", etc.

I have another company with a hyphenated domain name which is terrible when I'm on the phone and my client asks me for my domain (hard to say, always spelling it out).

Also I wanted to have a good snappy name for my new business so I found a 6 letter .com and matching .ca for my company.

My question is: is it best to use a short domain name or is it better have my keywords in the domain name?

eg. xyz.com vs xyzvancouverwebdesign.com

Thanks