A cousin of mine created a forum few years ago. There is no more active users and the last post is too old already. Now it has a pagerank of 1. How did that happen?
PR is only based on links. It has nothing to do with age. That forum likely still has a few links somewhere.
Hello, As far as I know the domain age doesn't affect PR, but should affect your ranking in google. About your forum, well there are only a few forums that maintain by themselves and even there there's a lot of work in the background that the average visitor doesn't notice. Maybe because your cousin lost it's interest in the forum, other people lost interest and stop posting. Eventually the people linking to the forum removed the links as nobody wants to link to a dead site.
the age of the domain theoretically has nothing to do with page rank because I've seen websites as old as only one year with a rank of four. Googles page rank tool is inaccurate..... but it is something that you would definitely want to stand by as far as a search engine optimizer trying to graphs to the ultimate meaning of traffic. Google's page rank tool offers webmasters the ability to configure their content based on meta-tagging key phrasing search engine optimization for different key phrases 3 to 4 words . The age of a domain obviously it is the older the better but there is known determine her upon its gender.
As the others said in this effect, the age of the domain doesnt help with PR, but it does improve your SERP rank. Even still its not a strong enough factor to lean on.
Like mike said it helps you ffor ranking because you must be building links from so many years but no help you will get in PR if the are not quality links .