I think I am going to go puke green in a bucket. People giving praise and rep for an unverified source.
Is this a new PATENT, if not YOUR A FEW years behind on this .. [SIZE=-1]This summary of Google's Dec. 2003 patent, that was released on March 31, 2005[/SIZE] Patent link http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...&s1=20050071741&OS=20050071741&RS=20050071741 Page to explain Google Patent http://www.seomoz.org/article/google-historical-data-patent
Google can be fooled easily by spammers, if the age of domain do matter. Just purchase a old domain and use it for spamming! just look at the domains for sale on ebay! nb.
This is so old. I would assume that they account for anchor text when it matches the domain and reduce/cancel it's effect depending on how the sites domain authority. It would be easy to test - just get a new site and buy a whole lot of high PR links with the same anchor text in a fairly non competitive niche (to avoid the sandbox if it exists). Repeat the test with the anchor text in the domain. The following is from http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors Not sure if I believe it but the point is they have access to the data:
I'm giving you and everyone else who smelled the BS on this one green rep.....he quoted a document that was so old....just imagine how much SEO has changed just over the past year....please save us the trouble and don't quote a document that is a few years old
> Google also states very clearly that exchanging and buying links won’t work. Stating it is one thing, enforcing it another. If buying links wouldn't work why bother with a reporting tool ... "The domain registration information is checked and compared to the information on the site to make sure the two match. "
Take it with a grain of salt, Google throws alot of red herrings, as well as anything else they think might be a good idea regardless if they never use it just so they have the rights. Patents are more about stopping your competitions avenues and methods then your own ventures.
I don't know why people think its a really complex ranking system, sure the coding is complex but the structure is simple. Googlebot is designed to read content and follow links, the easier your content is to read and the more content you have the more search engine listings you will have. The same goes for links, if you get good anchor text across 1,000 domains. Now you could take it a step further and say that if a page has 500 links it will be harder for googlebot to find and give you credit for a link instead of a page that just has 10. Same goes for pagerank, a page with a pagerank of 2 won't get crawled to often by google and the links/content won't carry much weight but a page with a pagerank of 6+ gets crawled and indexed daily so google will find your links quicker. As for the domain, yes its true that google uses domain age to calculate how well you should rank everybody in the seo world knows this as the "sandbox". Domains older than 6 months usually don't have this problem. It is only logical that a 2 year old domain (domain age) with 10,000 pages (content) and 1,000 backlinks (crawling) that updates every day (content) will have more traffic, more search engine listings, and more profit than a 3 day old domain with 5 backlinks and 4 pages.
Nice post! I'm not sure if it's the first time I've read all the things here but it's still a nice read. --Joe