What is Domain Age

The title is to simple its the age of the domain. But are old domains better?

Yes is the answer, why? Because most hacks / spammer use throw away domains, which are only used for less than a year because they are shut down. And for this reason search engines give a little more proirty to domains that are old.

This is a response to Jan Simpsons Email

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13 Responses to “What is Domain Age”

  1. Christopher says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm :

    But what about the unavoidable problem of a new site?

    How do you work around that?

  2. Jan Simpsons says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:45 pm :

    Thanks for responing to my email so fast.

    I guess i will have to buy a old domain.

    Thank you Simon

  3. Simon Bennett says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:48 pm :

    You have two chooses take over a domain, ( that costs)

    or you can (like i am going to) get loads of link exchanges going. Get people linking to you

  4. Christopher says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:50 pm :

    So is there a magic number of link exchanges you need to do?

  5. Simon Bennett says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm :

    No a number, get getting a good amount of PageRank (PR) 4 links is a really really really good idea.

    That would get your new domains a good PR.

  6. Christopher says on April 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm :

    So, if sites with PR4 link to you, you inherit some of their PR, am i right?

  7. Simon Bennett says on April 7th, 2008 at 5:00 pm :

    I might have to start a new post lol.

    You would increase you PR.

    You don’t really ‘inherit’ a sites PR. But Google will see that a PR 4 site is linking to you.

    Meaning that yours Google thinks that your site is good.

    How to explain this
    A= PR4 Site
    B= PR0 Site yours

    When A links to B Google thinks that B much be a good site because A linked to it.

    After all that yeah its easy to say inherits

  8. Jack Franklin says on April 7th, 2008 at 5:03 pm :

    Interesting to hear but it makes a lot of sense. So in 5 years my blog will be having millions of hits ;) hehe. thanks for the post.

  9. Simon Bennett says on April 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm :

    It might not have Millions of hits.

    And can you wait 5 years?

  10. Daniel says on April 18th, 2008 at 9:40 am :

    My websites had over 2mil hits since December yet I don’t do much SEO - Explain that lol

  11. Simon Bennett says on April 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am :

    Define ‘don’t do much’ please. what have you done

  12. Carly says on June 17th, 2008 at 3:06 pm :

    I am actually writing an article about this at the moment…

    I know a few tips tohelp new domains out of google sandbox quickly. (These might now work for everyone, but worked on 3 new websites I purchased for family and friends recently.)

    Once out of the sandbox, and into the SERPS, you can build on getting your pages higher, and higher.

    1. Set up a XML sitemap and resubmit to google everytime you upload new content.

    2. ROR / RSS feeds seem to help

    3. Good clean coding, XHTML / HTML / CSS validated

    4. A few good backlinks (call in some favours from friends!)

    5. Submit to a few directories - a couple of PR 3 /4 is going to be better then 200 page rank 0.

    6. SEO up your blog (use wordpress and a good theme if you’re too lazy!) i.e use permalinks in titles, name images well, etc etc

    7. name pages well, not just page1.html - but about-carly.html (for example if ‘carly’ is a keyword.)

    8.. there are more…. hehe

    Hope this helps..somebody out there!

  13. Jack Franklin says on June 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm :

    Daniel - that’s because you make people come back if they are involved with a team.

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