Why You Should Register Your Domain for More Than One Year

Got this as part of an email from GoDaddy... think there's merit in this, or just a marketing ploy to get more years out of us?

 

Next time my domains are up, I'm going for 3 years. I have been doing it for 1 year, because my accountant gets mad when I expense 3 years worth of costs in 1 year, but this time I'll go against her advice

 

It's a combination of decent advice and a ploy to get more $ out of people. It can't hurt to register your domain for longer than 1 year (maybe it will even help a bit), and, it's not that expensive.

 

More Google chasing... again

It does make sense though. I'm good thru 2009 on my main domain and 2007
on my others.

 

That makes no scene at all with bringing in resonable results. What if a spammer registers 2 years. GoDaddy is just trying to suck up more cash.

 

Sure it does. I would venture to guess that most domains used primarily to spam the SE's are registered 1 year at a time. It could be one factor in the hundreds used to rank sites. Why not extend those domains by a couple years?

 

Those were my thoughts as well... I would think it wouldn't factor in very heavily, but it could factor in somewhat... why not just register a couple years extra... especially since it's so cheap, and you're going to use the domains anyways...

 

Exactly. Even if it has 0.1% influence may as well go for it.

 

I spend around 3500 usd for domain a year.

I cannot afford to register 5 years ahead

 

would this also go with if your domain is running out and you buy 3 more years?

 

$3,500 to register a domain???

I've got 10 I'll sell you for 1/2 that right now

 

I think he meant $3500 to renew and register domains every year.

If he registered/renewed for 5 instead of 1...3500x5=17500

And he isn't be the only one.

Although many have domains inactive therefore not in need of SEO.

 

He said "I spend around 3500 usd for domain a year". Probably meant domains...which makes more sense.

Kind of backs up the original point in this thread though...who needs 350 (assuming $10/year per domain) active domains besides someone using them to spam the search engines?

 

For 1 domain??? Why? are you sub-leasing it from someone?

 

offcourse not for 1 domain.

And not for spamming the searchengines.

I have been registering domains since 2000 and they keep on building up every year.
I do make more than I spend, but a one time $ 17500 investment for 5 years is not a good choice for me.

 

So are the domains developed or are they just parked? Multiple year registration may be helpful for seo purposes - and that assumes there is live content on the site. If you're just parking the domains I wouldn't see any reason to register them for multiple years.

 

And if you're just parking the domains, maybe you should think about letting them lapse...

 

It may be that there is something related to this in one of the many Google reports, but that doesn't mean it's being implemented. It certainly isn't now because I never renew domains for more than one year and I've got plenty of sites that do well in the serps. Good marketing move on GoDaddy's part to play it up though....cause of course they want you to pay for more years on each renewal, and they have enough average wanna-be web folks that I'm sure a good portion of them WILL spend more based on this info.

 

Hard to argue with that. But I doubt that it's even that high.

With domains as cheap as they are, even somebody who expects to be out of business in 6 months would probably feel it was worth his while to buy a 10 year domain registration if he thought it would help his Google ranking... look at that alexxxa.com site mentioned elsewhere in these forums.

I just do not see Google wasting any time implementing this, frankly.

 

I think the more they take into consideration, the harder it would be to manipulate, so I don't see any reason why something like this wouldn't have even a slight impact...