Is age of site important for SEO?

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  1. #1
    Is age of site important for SEO? How does google determine the age of the site or can we register our sites age in google?
     
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  2. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    Simply yes but so are like 100 other factors

    They count age of registration domain + site being up and running ...
     
    w3bmaster, Feb 26, 2011 IP
  3. OpportunityLOL

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    Matt Cutts said 2-3 months and after that it's not worth worrying about.
     
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    Yes, it is important for SEO(mainly for PageRank and SERP)
     
    cr0n1cal, Feb 27, 2011 IP
  5. carleisenstein

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    Google's increasingly looking at freshness of content, so I think age is slightly less important that it was maybe a year ago. But I still feel that an old domain with a consistent registration is likely to rank more quickly than a brand new domain that Google's never seen before.
     
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  6. DocuMaker

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    It must play a role because I lost my ranking after changing domain names. :mad:
     
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    Yes, it is still important but not the most important factor
     
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    The age of your site will help you get indexed faster if you have a older domain, but if you have a site up for a couple months there should be no problem indexing your pages, and ranking better in google if you got the traffic, and did good SEO.
     
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  9. mamtak

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    yes, age of site is very important factor in SEO becouse age of site incresses trust of website for google which also help you in ranking of website.
     
    mamtak, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    Age of domain is important from what I've read/seen but its also the easiest thing to fix. You literally have to do nothing, lol. Just keep your site up and focus on other things and just like all things, your site will gain age as time goes by.

    Good luck!
     
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    hi...i agree with u..:D

     
    agungirpras, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    Old sites are important because of their backlinks and link popularity. But if you have links from sites that are more than 2 yrs old with no page rank..then they are of no use.
     
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    I think yes. The older a site, the better.
     
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    The age of your site is definitely another important ranking factor. The older it is, the higher chance of it maintaining a PR. There are lots of factors that go into this. Another one that is related, is if you register your domain name 10 years out, Google will give you an added bonus in the SERPS. So age is important.
     
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    Yes, i think google will record when first google bot find a site
     
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    definitely. Google definitely put more trust on aged domains.
     
    asphalt, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    Yes, and it makes sense too.
    Older domain that has be up for a longer period of time denotes trustworthiness. And it means business as most of the sites has an average shelf life of 2 years anyone having an older domain shows consistency.
    But nevertheless it is not the most important as SE takes many more factors to decide on SERP
     
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    older the better, but better to spend time on content and linking
     
    ipr22, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    Sites age is one of the important factor too but its not the only one to focus on.
     
    imagetypers, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    yes, age is important, you can get links from downcrown.com
     
    sachinthana, Feb 27, 2011 IP