How does Google determine domain age, and is it important for ranking?

[agapitoflores001]

I like how they answer customer inquiries. Nice question answered very brief but clear.

[westdavies]

I find that hard to believe. I have been improving my website for three years now and other companies in my town who do nothing to their websites have occupied the same positions page one with no improvement on my placement.

[seopodcast]

We have been able to purchase a domain name and have it on the first SERP within 24 hours. This was for a non-competitive term, 400,000 results for the search phrase.

[stonewaresnet]

Funny how this is available in 1080p quality.

[bigal21110]

Not sure how honest this answer is...I think domain age counts a lot because of the links to it..its like taking over another website...however one must be careful not to buy a website\domain that is flagged by google...and that is not easy to determine

[rahulxxx2000]

@bigal21110 you are right the age of the domain matters a lot because its because as old your domain gets the links back traced by google will be much more then a website started in some months

[ScienceAround]

@bigal21110 the question was about how valuable domain age by itself, not counting links.

[mjtaylor222]

@bigal21110 I'm not sure you were listening. ;) He was answering the question on whois data versus first crawl or first link ... but yes, you have to read between the lines. Google is going to tell you what they want you to think.

[Guugleable]

@bigal21110 I agree - I think google just say this so we create more fresh content - very nice for them - still would you rather have/ buy a 1999 domain or a 2011 one -- ?

[50kT]

How does a website move from pr3 to pr4? Is it backlinks? Is it a certain number? A certain mix of them??

[landlubberofficial]

@50kT welcome to the biz, tons of factors, but as matt said dont pay atention to the fkin PR but to important links and good inpage optimization, btw dont do what most people tells u to do, dont send ur site to 24525 directories dont set a lot a of link xchanges

[mrcakey]

Is there not a danger that if you buy a domain and create a holding page that happens to get crawled, that because holding pages are necessarily low quality the crawl rate is set low for that site and so that impacts on how quickly it's indexed once you're ready to go live?

[rtsownage]

Belgium? In what state is that?

[applesauceman]

@rtsownage ong lmfao.

[Grindcorevlad]

@rtsownage That's  the country where the ”french fries” were invented :P

[troglodyte3344]

@rtsownage its in a state called deliverance where you play the banjo with your cousins,..

[ordiantakeover]

@rtsownage Waar jij woont Jeroen.. Where you live, Jeroen. Now stop trollin'.

I fed you enough.

Thanks for the answer & question!

[portalcab]

Very enlightening, thanks! =)

[BeqaGeorgian]

Useful information.

[insideanalytics]

Excelent!!

[MrGr00vy]

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