Hi, I noticed that I am doing pretty good with some search terms for my site that is a little over 1 year old. The few sites that are higher up are hard to beat and I noticed their age of domain is near 5-9 years! I know newer sites can't compete with someone that "old", so when does the age of the domain factor stop having an effect on one vs another. Do you have to be at least 3 years old? 5? or will it always have an effect even if my site is 10 years old cause then theirs will be 17 years old! Thanks!
Besides the domain age , backlink age is another factor for ranking , as I have experimented one year is a big step , cause google wants to see if you could survive.After that the age bonus decreases by time this should be logaritmic otherwise no new sites could make it to the top.
Thanks. I do see changes after the 1 year mark as well. Hopefully before 2 years it will even be better.
Great question. I believe that after around a year a domain is then given more respect and the popularity and links start to even out.
According to my experience i would say age of domain DO matters. A very young domain can never do well for competitive keywords.
Ok i just cracked top 50 for the term "SEO" and page one for "SEO Company" along with a string of highly competative terms with 3/4 billion results. This is a part time project with little budget. The domain is about 6 months old and was empty for 3 of these. If i wasnt on a phone id post a string of my domains and rankings that would make you seriously rethink your comments.
Sweetfunny you are missing one point we are talking about a filter here and google applies this by looking at the search volume. And also look at the top five ranking ones age , seo has a good volume but seo company is an average term.
I have 3 years old domain and age really help domain to get higher ranks. I have 8 years old domain if you need send me pm
What point is there to miss? I started with optimization and algorithms several years ago with Alta Vista, and since have had 100's of page 1 placements with sub 12 & 6 and even 3 month old domains for some of the nets toughest search queries. I do not believe age of domain is factored in to Google's "filter" as you put it. Older domains have had time to gather backlinks and generally rank higher, much like the misconception of .edu or .gov domains having some special "power". These domains rank well by nature and not by extension, same with older domains. Actually Google is going out of it's way in refinement of the QDF (Query Deserves Freshness) algorithm to actually display new documents higher in SERP's then older documents that have 10 times more SERP ranking power. As i said, i don't see what point you are refering to that i'm missing? I've conducted numerous tests simultaneously with 10+yo domains along side freshly regged domains, for instance removed factors such as keywords in URL's, applied identical backlinks/anchor and the two domains had identical content. Guess what came out on top? The new domain. I don't dribble crap i "think" is the case, i have over the years thoroughly tested things and comment on my observations.