I have several domains that are a couple of years old. Zomogo.com - Reg 2006 ilppp.net - Reg 2007 jimbrickman.net - Reg 2006 zonamo.com - Reg 2006 Does the site age add any value to these sites? Would these sites go thru a google sandbox? Could I sell now or should I build up PR and then use the age + PR to gain buyers? Actually, these sites had fake PR of 5 to 7. But the domain age is real. But I don't know if they were dropped. Is there any way of checking wether these domains were ever dropped? Here is an interesting link: This guy got a 10 year old PR 1 site to the top for a very competitive term. http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense...gine-optimization-value.html#l7UpBFMuC76NmSOS
PR is a really weird thing. Let's cover a basic fact before we go too far: PageRank does not determine search eninge ranking for any given keyword. Quality of inbound link tags for that keyword counts most. A good study in how SERPs really work is to take a look at the old effort to make President Bush appear at the top for some random, highly insulting set of keywords. PageRank is on the check list of things that determines where your page ranks versus another page, if all things are close to equal. PageRank itself is just an agnostic score that expresses the quality of a single page, as voted by the pages linking in, and adjusted for their quality. It helps in SERPs, but it is not a magic elixir so you can shoot right to the top of Google. As for the age issue . . . age is a really, really tiny part of Google PageRank. It's in there somewhere, but it doesn't count for much. PR seems to be influenced most heavily by three factors: 1. Quality of those inbound links. A guy with five PR6 links will blow someone with 500 PR1 links out of the water. 2. How many total outbound links are on those pages linking to you. Getting a good PR4 link from a page with ten links on it is generally going to much better than getting a PR6 link from a page with 1000 links on it. Also, if a page has way too many outbound links -- especially unrelated links -- it may be blacklisted as a link farm, which means its PR will go to 0. 3. Trust rank. One of the more under-explored factors is that Google assigns extra weight to trusted websites. The most commonly known are .EDU site, which score extra trust rank because there are clear criteria for registering one. Random spammers can't register .EDUs. So, a .EDU link carries extra weight in determining your SERPs and your PageRank. Directories used to carry a lot of trust rank, but their weighting for trust seems to have dropped over the years. Paid directories like Yahoo didn't help the cause there. So, to summarize, PR is not all she wrote on getting a search engine result. And Age is a very minor factor within PR.
I would agree PR doesn't mean much for high rankings. Though, medium PR sites (PR 3 - 5) sometimes rank high for competitive terms. In other words having medium PR doesn't mean high rankings but high rankings usually come with medium PR.