Hi, We all know google gives preference to older sites, so my Q is below. Does google only class a domain to have existed once it indexes the site or does it look at the whois record and see when the domain was registered? Thanks.
most SEOs (including myself) are of the opinion that it's about the length of time it's been in google's index, not how old the domain is according to the whois.
Although there are some very good reason why such an old domain is not indexed, (no back link, robot.txt and so on), I would also make sure that the site is not banned as well for some obscure reason. FFMG
disgust: Darn - thanks. FFMG: No the domain just hasn't been used, its my domain but just been sat around on parking servers for 6 years! hehe.
I am about to launch a network of sites do you feel it would be better from a SEO point of view having a seperate URL for each (i.e. www.abcd.com) or running subdomains from my yr 2000 domain (i.e. blah.abcd.com, moo.abcd.com, etc