Does the age of a website/domain affect its ranking?

[indusharma]

Yaa dear according to my experience it's totally right age of domain name affects site ranking .

[powerofcollege]

Age of domain doesnot affect the ranking with google.

Any website having quality backlinks , that is inbound links from quality sites will get

good ranking soon.

[Lawrence]

Originally Posted by powerofcollege

Age of domain doesnot affect the ranking with google.

Any website having quality backlinks , that is inbound links from quality sites will get

good ranking soon.

For the most part, this is true, however remember that old domains will have links already pointing to them. This has effect to a degree, and I've had better success with older domains than with never-registered domains.

[onlineedublog]

yes it does because google likes old back links more too.. the more the age of a backlink the more priority is given to it..! so backlink can only be old enough if the age of domain is old right ?

[amberlewis]

Ya age of the website affect in ranking.Because according to google algorithm more website become old more google sreach engine give importance to it.

[c5c1lia]

It does not matter how old is the domain name and it doesn't affect in the ranking until it has a good reputation in the web. Reputation means, if the domain name (old one) having more no. of backlinks then it would be obviously helpful in getting good page ranking (PR).

[Ord Allenbea]

Interesting thread to say the least. Gee I have domains that are 10+ years old and yes I bought them 10+ years ago. According to some on this thread I should have top rankings because my domain is 10+ years old - Not!

The age of a domain does not matter at all, not one single bit. The length of time your pages have been indexed along with new fresh quality content in the search engines, now that is another story. If you have pages indexed for 10+ years then yes that does help with your rankings.

[RankedZillaSEO]

I think it's one of the factors that Google uses, but if you have high quality backlinks and a clean website, your website can be competitive.

[TheWicker]

Yep, websites are like wine. The older they are, the more google loves them.

Unless they get too old and outdated

[Ord Allenbea]

It is amazing how many people still believe this myth.

You can have a 15 year old domain but if it has crappy content, ads all over the place, very few pages indexed, and looks like junk then the domain name age means nothing.

Originally Posted by TheWicker

Yep, websites are like wine. The older they are, the more google loves them.

Unless they get too old and outdated

[Sokun]

I think it affects because in most cases, young Web sites have few inbound links and content, so it is hard for the Search Engines to rank those sites first page. However, if a young Web site gets 1000 inbound links in a month or two or uploads 1000 pages in a month or tow, the Search Engines find difficulty to believe that this young site does get these links and content in an ethical way. Hence, the SEs may come to conclusion that this Web site is trying to spam. Then, the SEs won't rank this site well, as a result.

[Ord Allenbea]

Please post any proof to this. I have built brand new sites with over 2,000 pages (articles) and not once was I slapped by Google. I have built 1,000's of links in a day with no slap either. It is called syndication of content and not spam. Example release a press release and this could end up getting you thousands of backlinks within 24 hours easily.

Would be nice if people actually tested stuff before posting on a forum giving out advice.

Originally Posted by Sokun

I think it affects because in most cases, young Web sites have few inbound links and content, so it is hard for the Search Engines to rank those sites first page. However, if a young Web site gets 1000 inbound links in a month or two or uploads 1000 pages in a month or tow, the Search Engines find difficulty to believe that this young site does get these links and content in an ethical way. Hence, the SEs may come to conclusion that this Web site is trying to spam. Then, the SEs won't rank this site well, as a result.

[Sokun]

Originally Posted by Ord Allenbea

Please post any proof to this. I have built brand new sites with over 2,000 pages (articles) and not once was I slapped by Google. I have built 1,000's of links in a day with no slap either. It is called syndication of content and not spam. Example release a press release and this could end up getting you thousands of backlinks within 24 hours easily.

Would be nice if people actually tested stuff before posting on a forum giving out advice.

Yes, what I was saying is that "in most cases." I didn't say "in all cases". Now I would like to invite you to proof me as well: could you please provide me these brand new sites that have over 2000 pages and 1000 links? I want to check them with Alexa and Whois because I'm really impressed and keen to learn more about this technique, too.

[Ord Allenbea]

Alexa means nothing at all. When I release new syndication sites they are always filled with articles from my article directory. I have well over 250+ sites and each time I release a new site it has at least 1,000 pages. Never once have I had a problem from Google.

Matter fact I posted a test to prove just that on my own forum and to show to others it is a myth about a brand new site having too much content.

Originally Posted by Sokun

Yes, what I was saying is that "in most cases." I didn't say "in all cases". Now I would like to invite you to proof me as well: could you please provide me these brand new sites that have over 2000 pages and 1000 links? I want to check them with Alexa and Whois because I'm really impressed and keen to learn more about this technique, too.

[Leandro]

I think it is not a big factor. In some aspect it is said that a site a baby until it crosses the age of six months. If we accept this seo idiom, then after six months, there is no difference in any sites old or new. I have seen many sites coming on first page in very short time.

[Turkey Property]

I inherited two sites that were both 5-6 years old. They looked ok from the outside but apart from updating the products listed on them, nothing had been been changed since they were launched. Although they were aimed at an English speaking market, the content wasn't written by someone who had a good command of the language and was poor. They had very few backlinks and those that they did have were of low value. They performed terribly in SERPs and returned just a few genuine enquiries a year each,so that virtually all of our business was coming from advertising on other websites.
I closed those two sites and launched a new one less than a year ago, and the new site has performed well in SERP and brought more response in that time than the old two combined managed in more than 5 years (although that wasn't that difficult).

My point here is that it is not the age of a site per sey that has value, but what it has done during the time of its existence.
I would argue that age in itself does not give authority or affect ranking.

[HostASP]

it doesn't look like that way, search engines are often changing their methods. concentrate only on quality and relevant content. that helps.

[rcostica]

An old domain inspires some degree of trust, but not by itself. The domain should also have a well established backlink network and it should not be sandboxed, because if it is, it wouldn't really matter if it is 100 years or 1 month old.

[Donnie]

Originally Posted by Turkey Property

I inherited two sites that were both 5-6 years old. They looked ok from the outside but apart from updating the products listed on them, nothing had been been changed since they were launched. Although they were aimed at an English speaking market, the content wasn't written by someone who had a good command of the language and was poor. They had very few backlinks and those that they did have were of low value. They performed terribly in SERPs and returned just a few genuine enquiries a year each,so that virtually all of our business was coming from advertising on other websites.
I closed those two sites and launched a new one less than a year ago, and the new site has performed well in SERP and brought more response in that time than the old two combined managed in more than 5 years (although that wasn't that difficult).

My point here is that it is not the age of a site per sey that has value, but what it has done during the time of its existence.
I would argue that age in itself does not give authority or affect ranking.

A sites age does influence the SERP, however it has very little influence... A few sites with a high PR linking to you is probably just as valuable. There are about 200 factors to rank, and this is just 1 of 200.

[addlinkweb]

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