How important is the domain age?

[shivseo]

Yes you are right....older domains will have more weightage than newer...

[LinkItDirectory]

I have seen very new websites that perform very well in the search engines. There are 2 many factors at play here. quickly building backlinks and quality content

[Glow_With_Us]

Domain age does matter as google use it in calculating SERP.

[Hafsoh]

Older sites have more incoming links, and more content. In reality older sites tend to rank better because crappy sites don't last too long.

[Manish Pandey]

Originally Posted by shivseo

Yes you are right....older domains will have more weightage than newer...

Umm...not always!

What matters is the linkage. If you have an old domain which has got no linkage data for Google then it has near to same value like a new domain. The thing which matters is linkage data. How long a link has been put for a particular domain and did it lose links, gained links? How often, how fast..etc.

[dataflurry]

I have a 5 month old domain with a 5PageRank - http://www.chronosroma.org

[Web Gazelle]

Older domains will gain good reputation with Google if they have not been used for spammy sites.

[sega009]

i believe what is more important is the amount of relevant traffic the domain receives. . . . age is not important if it is not getting traffic

[entrabnetworks]

I dont think that domain age metter

i have 10 year old domain but my new domains are much popular then it

[louiseq]

Originally Posted by dataflurry

I have a 5 month old domain with a 5PageRank - http://www.chronosroma.org

Hey data..
its PR 4 here.. something must have happened

[dataflurry]

Yup, you are right. Unfortunately it dropped yesterday, I haven't done much with it recently in order to boost the page rank.

[ShawnsITSolutions]

Domain age is a very important issue when it comes to optimizing and marketing. Let's put it this way. Type in kentucky web development in google and you will notice that our page is number 4 out of 8.9 mil results. Our site is only 7 months old and contains 2500+ backlinks and the sites ahead of us don't even have 500 backlinks but their domains are over 5 years old.

[dataflurry]

I agree, my thoughts are that domain age is a noticeable factor in ranking.

[louiseq]

obviosly you need to do something with your domain..
I have a couple of old domains that ive never touched.. they are both PR0.

I did buy a domain that happened to be owned by someone else before and was happy to find it had PR2 right out of the box.. so i guess a freshly bought domain can be "old".

It would be nice to know if there are any old unregistered domains that have PR.. is there a tool for this, or just complete luck?

[angilina]

Matt Cutts said in a video that: domain age cannot help if a domain had no good content in it in the past. The domain age counts from the time when the domain actually produces some useful content that help the users.

For established sites, domain age will help.

[riderbabygurl]

^ well if you will listen closely to the explanation in video of matt cuts

Q:How much weight does the number of years a domain is registered for have on rankings?

A: My short answer is not to worry about that very much, not very much at all in fact.


"Not at all" is different from "not very much at all."

IMHO, It was probably just a ploy from the domain registrars to use one Google patent to cash in on and encourage webmasters to buy domains for longer timescales.

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[Shobhna]

Its really really very important coz the sand box is always there with open mouth getting back your site from sand box and again starting work on it is risky and a long process...

[phoenixlipo]

Hello,

One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. The
points behind this question include:

* well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logics, an old domain should mean that the site is well established;

* spammers register and drop domains quickly, thus logically spamming sites usually have newly registered domain names.

Generally, webmasters agree that domain age is hardly a powerful ranking factor but opinions vary:

1. it can be no factor at all;

2. it can play only a single minor factor in the millions of other factors (but it still is);

3. it matters a lot (as most participants of this discussion seem to agree, for example).


thanks,

Phoenix Lipo

[warrichpk]

1. Website age (and its backlink profile age) is what really matters;
2. Domain age can play a minor part only as damping factor - i.e. one of the factors signaling the search engine that this might be a spammy / illegitimate site;
3. Old domains may carry more weight due to their past records (i.e. old backlinks pointing to them) - this can be a good point to consider but then again if you are serious about your brand, keep in mind that an established domain already has associations and history before you own it and they might be hard to conquer.

[foodpyramidguru]

Originally Posted by phoenixlipo

Hello,

One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. The
points behind this question include:

* well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logics, an old domain should mean that the site is well established;

* spammers register and drop domains quickly, thus logically spamming sites usually have newly registered domain names.

Generally, webmasters agree that domain age is hardly a powerful ranking factor but opinions vary:

1. it can be no factor at all;

2. it can play only a single minor factor in the millions of other factors (but it still is);

3. it matters a lot (as most participants of this discussion seem to agree, for example).


thanks,

Phoenix Lipo

Thank for a tips.