Does domain age pass with a 301 redirect?

Christian Fox · 09-30-2009, 07:04 PM

I am helping a local company redesign their website. They would like to change their domain and redirect to a better keyword loaded domain.

The old domain is over 10 years old. I am aware that page rank and link juice will pass with the 301 but what about the aged benefit of the old domain?

Louise Green · 09-30-2009, 08:47 PM

I don't think it would pass because each has a seperate DNS record, which is what Google checks when ranking a site. Not 100% sure, it is an interesting question though.

SakeSushi · 10-01-2009, 02:07 AM

high chance it does not carry over.

take 301 redirect as this situation where a child inherits the father's wealth, but certainly the child does not inherit his age as well

Smokey_Joe · 10-01-2009, 02:40 AM

Why would the age need to be transferred? Age is not a ranking factor, so as long as the backlinks and pagerank are transferred, you are good.

SEO ibiza · 10-01-2009, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Smokey_Joe

Why would the age need to be transferred? Age is not a ranking factor, so as long as the backlinks and pagerank are transferred, you are good.

agree, domain age on its own isnt that important, but it may well feed into a "trust" factor that is.

as to whether it passes via 301, it might, we recently did this with an 11 year old domain (PR1) into a 3 year old domain (PR3) and the results were definitely positive.

the domains were related keyword-wise though.

Christian Fox · 10-02-2009, 08:22 PM

How is age not a ranking factor? I know no one knows for sure but it sure seems to me it would be.

These domains are keyword related... I am leaning slightly towards doing it because the clients want it. Although on the Google webmaster forum they overwhelmingly advised against it for the reason I stated.

09-30-2009, 07:04 PM	#1
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SakeSushi Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 58 Thanks: 8 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Does domain age pass with a 301 redirect? high chance it does not carry over. take 301 redirect as this situation where a child inherits the father's wealth, but certainly the child does not inherit his age as well

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Christian Fox No Fate But What U Make! War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Jenison, MI Posts: 838 Thanks: 64 Thanked 34 Times in 29 Posts	Re: Does domain age pass with a 301 redirect? How is age not a ranking factor? I know no one knows for sure but it sure seems to me it would be. These domains are keyword related... I am leaning slightly towards doing it because the clients want it. Although on the Google webmaster forum they overwhelmingly advised against it for the reason I stated.