I've decided to take one of my highest earning sites (which was only registered for 1 year) and get an additional 9 years of registration on it. How long do you think it would take for search engines to notice the length of registration has changed? (or, do you think this factor is just a myth)? I figured this would be a good test, so I'll be monitoring it as the months go by, and will take notes.
It more likely to be a myth. Why would length of registration have anything to do with it? All my sites are only renewed annually and all rank fine!
A domain will be in the good books of the SEs after 6 months provided that all the basic SEO stuffs are implemented. Since I have about 25 domains (2 months to 12 years old) I can make my own wise conclusion. Many of webpages are being indexed by Google within 15 mins.
It won't do anything good to your SERPS you just made sure that you won't lose your earnings... that's it even Search Engines have the ability to know the registration period for the domain , how do you think that you will be good books of search engine as you may even park it after a 6 month period?
Length of registration will have no actual effect on SERPs. The ae of the domain may affect your ranking but SEO and promotion of the site plus work will be the main factors affecting SERPs.
Since domain age is indeed a ranking factor (older sites are considered more trusted and possible authority sites) I only see it giving you more longevity, unless you get caught! Then your goose will be cooked. I would try it with an older less profitable site to see how much it really does affect anything.
I think you might get a small boost - Search engine looks at the registration and says mmmm registered for 5 year less likely to be a throw away domain. But I would imagine the age on domain weights a lot heavier.
A long registration period might tell the search engines that your site is in it for the long haul, but it won't improve your serps.
Than why most of the webmaster go for old domain names . I have seen many users on domain sale thread they make good high bids for old domain names .
That`s because used domain names have already been developed to some degree. They are usually ranked by the SEs and usually have back links pointing to them. I just bought a used domain name and I found that it had one back link and one comment on a forum where someone was praising this domain name to the person who had it before me. Atul, in your sig you say 1000 views for 6$. How many click does that include, is it 1000 uniques visitors. I would be interested since I am just starting two websites from scratch.
it will help you once the domain is 9 years old it won't help you because you have it registered for 9 years in advance. this will just help you in the other manner....no one will run away with your domain
Sir actually i have sold my signature link to dp user , i will let you know more about this within few hours whenever he will come online . thanks
dmccarthy wrote "Search engine looks at the registration". SEs can't access records of domain registrars for obvious reason but SEs have databases (archives) of websites since day 1 of the websites. I still could have a look at the 1st webpage I had published about 14 years ago.
Thanks for the opinions. I thought it would be a good test to see if this is actually a factor or not. Regardless, I just threw in a coupon code and saved a bunch of money, plus it's a good domain name that I'll never give up, anyway.
...in that case I agree with you for saving money, because what matter most is the number of years the domain name have been indexed and not number of years it is renew for.
Correct - "number of years the domain name have been indexed and not number of years it is renew for." Again, I wish to say that SEs are not able to access registrar databases.