I'm actually going to develop about 10 of my domain names into E-Commerce Web Sites & I just launched my first one this week. Somehow through Zeus's Easy Store, I'm on about the middle of the first page of 7 Google pages with 100 entries each which was alot better then I thought under "Discount Computer Software" for www.2008Software.com (I'm having a technical problem with the logo that hopefully will be corrected Monday & seems to affect IE more so then Firefox). My question is, I only took out a 1 year renewal registration on the domain name and if it had been for say 3 years would it have been placed alot higher on Google? What about 5 years would that be even higher? I obviously would prefer to shell out as little as possible but if this really does make a difference, especially as I'm on the first page now, I'd like to know. Godaddy says it does but this could just be sales hype. If it does, will this place the current domain name higher and how often does Google change its placements or rankings if that is the term?
Sales hype, i am yet to find one shred of evidence it has any effect. Actually the last domain i regged for 10 years dropped a few spots. If you pay Godaddy 10 years registration fees and decide you don't like them in 6 months and want to transfer guess what, they don't care because they got a decade of domain fee's out of you.