How Does Google determine the age of an URL?

Google gives importance to the age of an URL, so I heard quite often. But how does Google determine the age of an URL?

Does it check the cache?
Does it work with un-owned domain like blogspot.

I had started a one page blog in 2003, and google had dropped it from it's index since it wasn't significant.

Will the URL age count if i revive it today? or should I just forget it?

 

Hi,

More then likely Google dropped the blog as new content was not being posted regularly.

Google determines the age of the domain by the registrar date I beleive.

A blogspot domain will actually get indexed alot quicker then another domain as Google owns it.

I would suggest attempting to revive the domain. Post new content and continue to post new content every 2 days or so that is relevant. If there is an atom or rss feed available ensure to post it to multiple sites after each post to notify their spiders to crawl your site for new content. This in return will also assist in getting indexed and ranked by multiple search engines and directories.

Rick

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On the domain registration.

 

Example: http://www.whois.sc/digitalpoint.com

Helps also that they're a registrar now.

 

The op is asking about the age of a url (might not simply be the domain). It would easy for a search engine to record a 'first encountered date' for each url found. If not in index already, FED = today.

 

Actually the age of the domain is from the date the domain was first discovered and spidered by google. The length of time the domain has been registered for is irrelevant.

 

So, then google has a record or history of all sites it caches?

 

Yes, it does.

 

Does it, that for a site that google crawls everyday, it will have 36o records every year, for each page it caches... now this is interesting..

 

actually, what is more important for google is the age of the incoming links for a url

 

The question was how google determine the age of URL

hooperman pointed out the it can be checked when google made an entry of that URL first time in its index. Its right and why google need to check registry entry for age if it matters only from when the spider found the site

So, google will be keeping a record from when they are indexing a particular site.. Thats my view..

 

You are right but I was just pointing out that the age of the link is more important if good rankings in google is a consideration

 

google need site running atleast parked , i think it count only time after it indexed it, but yes it also see reg info i think.

 

On the webuildpages SEO tool, all blogspot urls have the age of www.blogspot.com ... so age of subdomain doesn't matter it seems.