Does Registering domain for long period help in SEO?

Hi,

I've heard that registering a domain for a long period say 5 years or 10 years ensure more pages listed in google. It shows that you have clear intentions of long-term.

I am not completely sure about this concept, my domains are registered for 1 year only. I cannot get more than 20000 pages listed from one site. Please see the sites in my signatures.

If registering domain for long helps I will do it.

 

Yes
long period domains are beneficial according search engines, because they are more trust able than short term domains.

 

Is there any document to support this statement? I am curious to read more.

 

may be! coz if a short term domain has got thousands of pages indexed and few of those ranking well, and it expires unnoticeably...there will be a major loss in search engines index...so in terms of trust rank, domains registered for long period may hav some advantage!

 

is there any document to refer???

 

Yup. Site age is one big factor from getting high SERPs.

 

i know about site age, however I am asking about registeration about years to come.

 

the site age has great infuence to google

 

@crysun, I am not asking about site age. I am asking about registering for 5 years instead of 1 year, will that help in SEO?

 

Yeah Definitely Old is Gold !!!

 

Amazing how many people reply to threads without reading them first ...

 

most of them are not reading my issue properly

 

Registering your site for more years will definitely increase your authority.....but that is just one among many factors.
I personally increased my authority(not pagerank) of one of my blog after i registered it for 2 more years

 

There's no written rule about it as far as I know, but there have been many reports about sites being indexed quite well if they are registered for a long period of time.

 

Registering your domains for longer periods implies that you’re more likely to be legitimate. Since they need to change fairly frequently, spammers commonly only register domains for one year. Registration owner address data is likely used for Local Search calculations, and also factored in is consistency of technical and admin contact details, which spammers often falsify.
more > http://www.searchwizmarketing.com/googlepatentopenscrackindoorofalgorithmvault.htm

 

It is better to register for long term for google. I had to competing sites one registered for 1 year other for 4.

The second one ranking better with the same SEO efforts.
of course it is only one of many factors but In the war with google better to take any advantage if it is possible.

P.S. there is no any docs statement that 5 years registration is better than 1 year.... all of the thoughts is just from practice...

 

Well, got couple of blog posts here:

blog.webcopyplus(.)com/2009/03/16/long-term-domain-registration-promotes-google-rankings
smart-traffic(.)co.uk/seo-research/2008/11/28/secrets-to-google-ranking-registration-length-of-domain

Yeah, ppl get really obsessed sometimes to grow their post no. but it really irritates the honest questioner

 

The logic goes that you intend to stay in business for a longer time, and you are not some fly by night operator.

It probably has some impact, although it is quite difficult to estimate " its percentage" in the algorithm.

 

i am agreed

 

You will only get the SERP value for aged domain once it's already passed the period. Let's say today you had registered for a new domain with 5 years renewal in advance, it's still considered new, and not aged one.