Is 'Site Age' really so Strong for SERP?

Website domain age is very important to get ranking at google search engine. The age of the domain produce reliability, if site have good content and giving good information to all the visitors then it will definitely get good SERPs.

 

for its the authority. IF you have lots for quality backlinks and many people visit your site your site won't lose its position on first page.

 

Site age was not important in my case. I registered a keyword domain name with my country TLD. After 7 days, my site came in TOP 1st position in SERP. and former top 1st site for the keyword down to 2nd postion (the site was 2 year older). My site is not big also. It has unique content nowhere else found.

 

Actually, it is. I have a site with no links that I've owned since 2000.

Not a single freakin link. NONE. NADA. ZILCH.

I take that back. I think it had one natural link back in 2003.

It's number one for it's name and keyword phrase. Has been, ever since I can remember. As it gets absolutely very little traffic, I don't worry about it and neither does the competition, although at one point, it was a very hot competitive phrase and we jiggled between the number 1, 2 or 3 spot.

I also have a site for my hubby's business which is #1 for it's keyphrases in digital photography. It's from 2003. It has less than 300 links and I haven't touched it in over 3 or 4 years.

Age counts.

However, sites are like real estate. If you hang on to it, it will pass an age threshhold sooner or later and be more valuable.

Also, what is the quality of your links? If you have 2,000 BS links and they have 200 quality ones, they will easily outscore you.

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Yep it is and this is best showing that

 

it can matter now but the difference will gradually evaporate. your site is 6 months old the other one is 21 months that is 3 and a half times. in two years it will be 27 months versus versus 48 months and it won't matter at all. i might be wrong but goolge and other search engines still seem to prefer old stuff (often cluttering internet) and that can be a problem when searching for some recent info and all you get on the first results page are 5 years old news. i do not know what your site is about but i assume that your position versus the other site in yahoo is yet worse than in google

 

Site Age & Site Url is the main thing for SERPs.don't change the url.Then your serps swifts.

 

Yes here are the factors:
1) quality of links (what PR?)
2) Amount of links (with specific keyword in the a tags?)
3) Site age of yours vs his/hers
4) Frequency of updates on your specific page and main site.

Factors that won't matter:
1) meta tags

But yes you can defeat them, it's just a matter of working harder.

 

Site age is hugely important. For the big g, old is gold. In fact, they place so much emphasis on this SEO factor, that they have actually patented the practice of using a site's age to determine it's ranking in a SE.

 

Age does make a big difference in the SERP...

 

It is an important factor, it contributes to domain authority which is one of the more weighted ranking factors these days

 

In my opinion - YES, site and domain name age is very important. I think its that way to keep the spammers out of the top listings. It stops people from putting up a quick scam page, ranking well in google, and then taking the page down.

 

I will be in the minority here, but site age is not a ranking factor as per my knowledge. The only way it can be an asset is that an older site has had more time to develop. Rankings are based on links, so I'm pretty much sure that there's something you are disregarding here.

Also, you need to compare a page against a page - not the homepages unless these relevant to the query in question.

Someone said that frequent updates will get you higher rankings - well, I'm afraid that's not that true. These will get the site crawled more frequently, but rankings depend on other things.

 

definitely, but you have found a nice niche for yourself - congrats

 

the answer is ... yes. 100% absolutely yes. nothings happens in zero time
this is physics, and i believe that google is a slow start search engine.

now, to backup my words, have a look at the attached image. it's for my website.

 

You have to remember that it's a combination of factors, for example:

A website that is 10 years old that doesn't update often may rank below a website that is 8 years old that updates on a regular basis. But a website that is 1 year old that updates every day can rank below the previous two examples because of a lack of domain authority.

You are somewhat correct about links but often links and domain age increase together over time.

 

I'll post here some more infos, to you guys know:


1- About the quality of backlinks:
a) Half of the backlinks from the keyword's page is from my own site. What means: 100% contextual (same theme)
The other half is from autorithy sites (with main page with PR>5 and inner-page with PR>1)

b) Just one backlink to the keyword page of first spot. And it's from a PR 0 directory.

c) The links poiting to my Main Page comes from a lot of sites. About half is from contextual sites (from same theme, too), with average PR and Age (PR 1-4, with 1-2 y.o). The other half is from general blogs and autorithy sites.


But I'm glad to see the only 'problem' is age...so I know I'm doing a good job, and it's only time to make I earn money haha; but I'll stay doing my Link Building and doing SEO, of course! Otimizing the script and these things...

Thanks everyone!

 

I'm in a similar situation and competing against 9 year old sites with a 6 month old site - there's not alot of competion for my keyword but they are still ahead in the SERPS even though my site is better in terms of on-page and off-page opt - so based on my experience I would say that domain age is very important.

Its a bit of a shame its such a factor, i know new sites can't be pushed to the top but some of the old sites rely on this ranking factor and have pretty average content but still retain the top spot

 

Age is important but i think there is more to the situation then we can see from this information.

 

Nice observations..