Hello, I am looking to buy one or two domains but want to know which one is better in SEO. 1. 2 years old domain with PR1. 2. 7 months old domain with PR3. Both offer the same price. Which one is better? Thanks.
Domain age is a ranking factor but only ONE of 200+ factors at Google. I wouldn't worry about it as it is not going to make or break a site. No one factor ever will. It's never one factor that makes a URL rank well... It's the sum of doing lots of little things right that when taken as a whole add up to good rankings. Besides, as soon as you transfer the domain over to your name, it resets the domain age clocks. Off the top of my head without knowing the domain names, I would likely go with the newer PR3 site since it likely has more inbound links or higher PR inbound links. But if the old domain is an exact match for some keyword phrase you want to rank for that gets tons of search volume then I would go with the old, lower PR domain because it would be easy to get it to rank in the top 1-3 positions and would drive a lot of traffic. So which to pick simply depends...
Yes domain age matters, but a new domain with consistent new content and links can rank just as well unless its in a heavily "sandboxed" category such as real estate, iphones etc.
If I were you I would analyze with another factor along PR and not solely based on it. 1. Do they both ever being a parked domain before? If no, I would go with 2 years old domain over 7 months and ignore the PR 2. How many link popularity they had? I will go with the one that has more link popularity in Google. 3. How quality of their inbound links? I will go with the one that has better link profile and have been linked from authority one. ie. Listed in Yahoo Directory 4. How many outbound links they do have? Who they are linking to? I will go with the one that has less outbound link, or more selective on linking out. I would avoid bad-neighborhood issue like a plaque.
jennypretty, I see your topic on most popular seo forums these days - clever research ;-) social-media gave quite a complete answer, however I would add the following again: try to keep old webpages (on the same urls with the same content - you can get it in website history services). Then there will be a chance that Google will not "restart the clock" for the domain age.
You must consider and let compare again, make sure determine what you need and your purpose about these domain. If you want to get high serps, you can choose domain with many years of age because domain age is one of most serps factors ranking.
....but you shouldnt bother too much. Since PR is not that easy to achieve i would go for the PR3 one
Domain's age really matter in SEO because when you have a new website you don't have to put many backlinks on your new site because google may notice that and there's a possibility that your site will not be on top of google.
Check the back links of the oldest domains and just look for the PR of back links. Old sites will be having links posted in old web directories with good page ranks.. On the first look your page rank will be zero as its already expired. But if the link has quality back links then you will get the PR juice of those back links on the next google update
Too interesting to answer in this issue.Domain age is an important factor in SEO,but think if the quality/reputation of the of the site is already bad whether it's 2 years or 7 years old.So the answer here will be changed.Just look into the PR of the 7 month old site,it has got a good back links.Too confusing,still then I must advise you to go for the new site.
Domain age, and domain life remaining are both very important I have extended some domain names experation dates for instant boost