I just called godaddy.com and they said that if you register a domain for 5+ years, you'll be looked at more seriously by the SE's, therefore getting ranked higher. Is this true? Is it worth investing 100 bucks to register mine for 5 years?
Some experts think that a longer registration may be a slight positive factor for Google rankings. Some experts also think that Google downgrades a NEW domain that is only registered for one year, because a lot of spam sites are only intended to last for one year. So if yours is a new site, and you're sure that you want to keep it going for a long time, You might be better off to register it for at least two years.
There was mention of this in one of google's patents released a few years ago- however, not everything in their patent is used - and I believe they include red herrings to throw people off. I own a lot of domains and experimented with some of them over a year ago and found absolutely no noticeable benefit. Either google isn't using it, or the boost is so small it isn't worth the extra expense.
Actually, I did a nice little reply to this question on CivicSEO, very rarely do I get a chance to whore something I wrote that is completely relevant to the thread! Is domain name registration length an SEO factor? I wouldn't mind opinions, just keep them to private messeges so we don't got off-topic.
I've never seen concrete evidence to support that opinion. Coming from a registrar who is actually going to benefit greatly from such a transaction, how much faith do you put in their personal statement?
I actually think that there are several time thresholds with each one giving an extra boost to positions. I can’t say for sure where these timelines are but from my experience a domain registered pre 2000 generally does quite well. That said, I agree with others who say that this is not a crucial factor in getting good rankings and that descent work on a newer domain can mitigate any disadvantage.
If you buy an old domain yes counts If you register it a new one for the next 5 years don't see how that would count
I tested this about 10 months ago, i bought a .com registered for 10 Years and i also bought the extension in the .net but only regged it for a year. I put the same page up on both, and gave both domains a link from the same page on another of my sites. You know what, the .net for some reason was coming up higher when conducting a search for pieces of text.. So go figure.
When godaddy called me about this, I figured it was a scheme to get mo money. I mean how the G crawler can't easily pick up on the registration life without first hitting your site then the registrar.
Google is a registrar, and there is no doubt that they access this information - I've just found there isn't any ranking benefit to registering a site for multiple years.
Ofcourse this is not true, SEO is about links, unique content(updated site), and how old your current domain is. Not about how many years you register your domain.
Maybe so, but Google could care less about SEO. As a matter of fact, I'd imagine if SEO was about nothing but links and unique content, that would be reason enough to change things up for Google. The algorithms and considerations they use to weigh the value of one domain over another is always changing and taking different factors into consideration. So how can you say of course this is not true? Do you work for Google?