Length of Renewal SEO FACT or FICTION

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by zaczebra, Jul 19, 2008.

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    Hi folks, i have been reading a lot lately about the effect of the age of our domains / websites.

    I believe it is taken for granted that a 10 year website is better than a 1 month old website in terms of SEO

    What i have been noticing lately is the reports that the length of renewal also plays an important part in SEO

    i.e a domain registered to 2018 will receive better serps than one registered until 2009 all other factors being equal

    Does anyone have any experience of this perceived benefit - Anyone tried this and noticed there serps increase

    Any comments appreciated :)
     
    zaczebra, Jul 19, 2008 IP
  2. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    Personally, the SEO factor behind age is the actual age of the website itself; meaning how long the website has been up and running. I find it hard to believe Google, Yahoo! or MSN would use a factor that could easily be "bought". If you examine the actual domain registeration lenght for top search results for many many different keywords you won't see any patterns that would draw an eye from me. I would say nay to this unless it was confirmed buy someone of significant value at Google, Yahoo! or MSN.
     
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    loredan Well-Known Member

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    Agree with ssandecki on this one.

    Website age si more important than domain's age as well as generally talking, is not the age of a domain but its search history that seems to be important.

    Ann Smarty has a nice article on this at SearchEngineJournal if I remember well...
     
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  5. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    I personally dont believe in domain age. Its link age that matters (how long links have been pointing to the site).
     
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  6. ixpro

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    Well Domain Age isn't a factor a domain could have a spammy or quality history of publishing you never know that, also now the internet is young what will be in twenty years if domain age will be a factor it will give unfair advantage to the old sites
     
    ixpro, Jul 20, 2008 IP
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    Domain age is not really a SEO Factor, as such, it's more of a Trust Factor and still included in how a site is ranked. I'm pretty sure that Matt Cutts did a Q & A video about it many months ago, plus Andy Jenkins & Brad Fallon can verify it as well being a Trust Factor that has "some" weight. Not a lot as the title, description and the total links pointing to your site and how many related links you have on your site.
     
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