Why NOT to regester a domain for a year...

Renewing an address, and getting a chance to fix a mistake!
The time has come, the first domain i registered is about to expire - and I'll renew it for 5years. When I first registered it I only registered for 1 year - and quickly found out why not to. I was penalized by google. So let this be a warning to all new webmasters - if your registering a domain and plan to develop it don't register it for only one year!

 

Why would google penalize you for registering your domain for one year, frenchmen77 ?
if this was the case, 99% of the domains would get penalised.

 

he must be referring to the email by a certain webhost citing googl'es application for a patent.

 

And what is your proof that the sandbox only hits domains registered for just one year!! You could of been sandboxed even if you registered it for over one year.

 

Sounds like a good excuse for whatever the real reason was

 

min'es registered for 3 years and is in the lovely sandbox.

 

Google suggests 10 years though ... I mean the patent suggests it. And it doesn't mean the patent has been implemented. Haven't seen proof or indication for either one.

 

offtopic: mike, do you by any chance know someone named Mel?

 

Yeah, bloggermel ... (Haven't seen him around though)

 

of course, frenchmen77 - it is good to register for multiple years as per the patent, but it doesn't indicate anywhere that if you don't, then there's some sort of penalty

 

Yeah, that really does sound like lunacy.

 

I own my Mustang domain till 2015

 

BamaStangGuy, did you find any marked improvement in your rankings, just because of this? Did it help?