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Originally Posted by Vick!
Age of domain name is often misunderstood with older registration date. Its not that older registered domain will rank better.
For example, people think a domain registered in 2001 will rank better than the one registered in 2005. Its not true.
Ask yourself, what is the purpose and main target of Google? To deliver relevant and quality results. How you can be sure that an older domain cannot have crappy content and spam?
What is age factor then? Its the age of website and backlinks to it. A website which has been live for 3 years on a domain registered in 2005, will rank better than the one which has been live for 2 months on a domain registered in 2001, assuming all other factors remain same.
Ask yourself above question again, how it can be sure that a website live for 3 years cannot have spam and crappy content? Here comes the trick Google does, it watches its backlink increase/decrease rate. If they have been increasing steadily over the time, its all good domain must have valuable content. But if the backlinks has been decreasing (which is a must have for low quality content), then it mark the website as not worth of ranking.
hope it helps.
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I have a 10 year old domain that is a piece of shit but it will come up first in google for almost anything I put in it's title. Sites that have tons of
back links etc... can beat it out but not some new domain with 10 back links.
Think of it this way.
Google does not want any dead links on it's site.
So which site is likely to stay up?
One that's been up for 12 years or one that went up last month?
Which site are you going to put up top to get clicked first so that your
surfers don't think your site is full of dead links?
Dead links will ruin a search engine faster than less relevant content.
Less relevant content is still content, but dead links are nothing.