GoDaddy Uses Google Patent to Boost Domains & Hosting

Here's an interesting article on Search Engine Journal

Google recently filed United States Patent Application 20050071741. As part of that patent application, Google made apparent its efforts to wipe out search engine spam, stating:

I know there are rumors of Google buying GoDaddy, but it appears that right now it's just a partnership to sell domains.

What is very interesting to me is this quote,

It makes me think that the length of registration of the domain could influence your ranking (at least in the future).

What are your thoughts?

 

It has very little effect.

 

maybe not now, though it could be in future when google swallow godaddy to encourage more people to sign up for a longer period

 

Question:
Valuable (legitimate) means: registered in advance or registration age?

 

Google is already an icann acredited registrar.

 

It appears that Google is trying to get more info by partnering with the various domain registrars. The idea is to try to give less of a value in the SERPs to domains that are 1) fairly new 2) registered the domain for a short period, probably 1 year.

This could become more of an issue as we move forward and Google has more partnerships set up and they gather more info.

 

It already has shown effect for us, as many of our e-commerce domains that were renewed for 10 or more years showed significant increases in ranking within 3-6 months.

 

This is big news for me. When did you start noticing this?

 

i could see this happening, i heard it could be happenig too. make sense

 

Google already has that data being a top level registrar , I also tested domain registration for a long period and saw no positive effect.

 

Pretty crazy stuff

 

Yeah, I think it is. They will try to get more info by partners.

 

Although interesting and new to some, this is old news. The article you reference is dated November of 2005.

 

I would only imagine if you registered for 5+ years to show Google that you have plans on being there for a long time. But even then I do not think it has much weight at all on how your site ranks.

 

google is one of the biggest domain registrar but it's not giving domain registration service to the people.

it's only working for itself

 

that is good to know; does it apply to .info as well?

 

I love GoDaddy...
The customer service reps always go above and beyond what is expected.

 

Yeah, most customer service reps always go above beyond what is expected.

 

Old new bro but could be useful to some

 

Heard this many times before, Zero effect as far as i'm see. This and the scared off about private registered domain will hurt your ranking. All false alarm.