Is The Age of Site Not Important My question was answered by a Google “Top Contributor†and “Level 4†My question... Are you saying that the age of the domain doesn't influence ranking? As in a one month old site vs. a 10 year old site. ..." **** His Answer "Exactly. Google doesn't (as far as we know - and we have asked) have a ranking factor based on how long a Domain has been active. The reasons that some/many older sites may rank better is - because they have been active longer, and thus have more time to market, publicise, be found and accrue links. Further - after a certain amoutn of time/crawls - G will have assimilated enough to get a stronger understanding of the site, how pages inter-connect, and pass the PR through as well as pick up Relevancy. Age itself is Not a factor."
Is There is Some Pudding in My Tea I asked this question of a top ranking pudding in tea specialist. My Question "Is there some pudding in my tea?" ******* Answer "Yes"
I would have to agree. Not the "modern" Google. A couple years ago this was a BIG BIG thing - now its not. With that said, I'm not saying that a 30 day old site will rank high but I'm saying that a site which is a year old and another one which is 10 year old will be treated the same.
I agree. 30 day - 60 day websites are indexed but not important. If they are the same important, a blackhat SEOer may register a lot of new domains, SEO them, and make it very high SERP and quit it one year later.
I've heard that after 6 months a site is out of the first stage. And then it will have equal value as any other site that is older.
The problem with this answer from a Google insider is the same as that for almost all other answers - they carefully add "as far as we know" or "as far as I know" A Google expert also said adding analystics to a site does not affect it's ranking "so far as he knew" And Guru's such as Greg Jacobs have test results that show this is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE for affiliate marketing. I am also in a support group where several people found sites that had fallen from the top of a keyword search to 100th or lower magically returned to the #1 as soon as they removed their analytics. Any information that Google can get it uses. And I'm sure very few people inside Google know the exact full details of their algorithms - that's the companies gold, and certain to be kept under lock and key except for priviledged and trusted 'eyes only'
I would say that the age of a domain matters quite a bit as far as ranking higher with Google. I am not a top level 4 this or that, but I do have 10 year old domains with literally zero optimization and untouched that rank very high for even some high competing keywords. So based on actual experience I would need to say yes. Older domains are like wine. They taste better the older they get and Google spiders think so too