Does Google refuse to index new domains? The following article suggests this: http://www.searchengineguide.com/whalen/2005/1013_jw1.html Is this a fact?
Of course that's not true, otherwise people would have no use of buying or developing new domains. I've had a specific domain and then wanted to change it, I bought a new domain, set a 301, and it was indexed the next day.
When it's old... Nah seriously, when it gets released from the sandbox and begins to rank for terms it should be.
I also agree. I think older sites have more authority to them, for the most part, but that doesn't mean newer sites won't be ranked well. I have a site not even 6 months old and it's ranked #4 for its keyword on Google, out of nearly 12million results.
12 million results doesn't doesn't mean 12 million competitors At any rate, new sites CAN rank well... it's just not easy. Build unique content, build links slowly, and don't be spammy. Doing those can help you avoid any sandbox effect and develop strong rankings in Google especially. My two websites bringing the most Google traffic are websites that I didn't make a priority to start building backlinks until I realized they were bringing in more hits with 5 backlinks that my other sites with 1,000. I simply threw those two sites together with an intent of getting to them 6 months down the road when they were closer to being out of the sandbox. Now, I'm not sure exactly if it's the backlinks that get devalued until they age or theirs a penalty put on the entire domain... but I can tell you that I've done the best by developing incoming links slowly for at least a month after the domain has been cached - then it's all good.