Originally Posted by sortie

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.