How much does a domain's age affect its ranking?

JZ from Ohio asks:

"How much weight does the number of years a domain is registered for have on your ranking?"

Recorded on April 23, 2009.

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  Science & Technology

[contentwritingadvice]

I think this Video is mislabeled. Matt was talking about the length of time you register your domain, 1 year, 2 years, so on into the future. He didn't actually talk about domain age, in terms of when the domain and site first appeared online...

[AmericanFabricator]

The salient points are:

It was not based upon anything google said which means they are not denying it.

Move along folks, nothing to see here. In other words, we do use it in our rankings but I would rather not make it official.

Observation from personal experience:

The "google sandbox" is well in effect so plan your new venture accordingly.

[Don Niam]

I went to register a domain for 2 years based on the fact that i read longer reg. improves SEO The price was 3.00 more per year. I called the registrar and there answer was due to the economy prices go up and the initial registration was usually about 5.00 less than the following years as you get a discount on the first year.Not true as my past renewals were the same, so i registered for one year.

[batoys4baboys]

Yep- sure you are... that's why you want to share it with everyone instead of making even more...when are trolls going to learn that no one cares?

[Pranas Baliuka]

Nice to see more Aussies!

Domain age is very important for getting rankings - no talks needed ;)

[antalyahomes]

10 years domain means 5 century old at the history.

[Thelondonplanet]

i love google

matt has changed a lot looking more and more sharp and providing even a great service , they will need to create google university

[Ronald0342]

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[jaymarpielago]

I love your Videos, I may take a look on this, :)

[affiliateseotips]

Matt, hello, I have a question. I have a domain that is 13 years old and its parked now for about 3 years. What is best thing to do to gain high rank on this old domain? is back linking better than keyword rich for this? Thank you

[CoachTerp]

"..don't worry about this much, not very much at all" does not mean it doesn't have at least a nominal amount of weight. He just "doesn't want us to jup to the assumption...," but never does he unequivocally state that it has no impact. ;)