Age and it's effect on Rankings (my personal Theory)

So I have always heard that the one thing you can not affect in SEO is time. So a site that is 7 months old will have a very hard time out ranking for a competitive term against a site that is 6 years old.

So my theory is that age may matter but only a tad bit (matt cutts has never spoken on the youtube blog about this so somebody should ask).
Link building should be a slow and steady process and an aged website has had time to build and age their links where a new site can catch up but building a lot of quality links takes time and thus that may be why age is seen as a factor and if a new site got all those links right away they may be penalized.

thoughts?

 

Age can be pretty important, but building quality links can over-throw the "AGE" factor. I don't think age matters as much as people think, you just need to have enough links.

 

I think age matters a lot. Well thats my thought since I've seen sites with lower pr and a little less optimized for a keyword that outrank those which are optimized solely for that reason.

 

I don't think age is a major factor in determining rankings.

Age is an important factor in how aggressive you can build backlinks without being flagged by the SE as a link spammer.

 

having a site that is a year old and 80,000 links is that okay>?

 

Wow, that's more than okay! Keep on building and make sure some of them a nofollow links.

 

Natural link building is always best, google does know how many links you gain in a period - if its too many to be natural your url is flagged for artificial backlinking.

 

Hi coopersPick,

Actually he has: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp#p/u/222/Y1_1NQWQJ2Q

Hope that helps.


Shawn

 

There are certain limitations, Google likes a site .. in fact loves a site when the site provides Google with one in-link everyday. Maybe its called machine faith, but yes age does matter when competition is considered. Patience is the key to achievement.

 

It's not so much age as in time, but in trust. Trust rank comes over time form all your SEO efforts.

 

I have ranked websites on the first page within the first week or two of starting it up. I agree with Belgian with what he said. With an aged domain there is less chance of being flagged by google but i believe there is essentially no effect.