How to Age A Domain and Website

[FranciscoDancon]

I find myself with a rather unique question and I am unsure if it has been discussed online before. Here is my situation:

I am in medical school and will graduate in about a year. After that I will have three years of residency before I open my own practice. I am very entrepreneurial and I want to open my own chain of medical clinics in several states. I also have been working on an ebook and on a video series of about 50 hours that helps other medical students and doctors prepare for licensing exams. Anyway, all this translates into need websites in the future but not now.

I am well aware of the extreme value of an aged website. Since I have in my mind what I want to do, it makes sense that I should register the domains now and put some stuff up and maybe build a few links just to let them age. Does anyone have any specific advice on what to do? When I actually decide to open my clinics, I'll have a website built for that purpose, but right now I just want to garner as much google love as possible so that I have the biggest jump start on my websites when I do launch them several years down the road. Anyone have any tips or guidelines for doing this? Will changing the content of the website down the road significantly harm my google love?

[App Developers]

Changing the content is fine but I would prefer you stay in the same category such as medical field and so on. great idea!Your site will do great!

[yukon]

If it was me, I would do this:

1) Buy the domain

2) Setup a simple html page (index page)

3) Build backlinks any chance you get, or outsource the backlinks. DO NOT get caught up in 3-way type backlinks that charge a monthly fee or they will delete your links. Build real backlinks.

4) Renew the domain/hosting each year.

5) While your waiting to finish your intern, you can be selling your ebook/videos.

[UMS]

Originally Posted by yukon

If it was me, I would do this:
4) Renew the domain/hosting each year.

All good advise, except that I would register the domain for as long as period as possible. This gives you a little more love with search engines as it shows them you aren't potentially just going to be a temporary domain.

[paulgl]

Age of a domain has nothing to do with anything to search "engines."
Engines? What engines? That's implying there are several.

I have no idea where people get this stuff from.

But please. Let your domain age. Let it sit. Ignore it. Better
off for me and the rest of us if you are a competitor.

When do you want to succeed? Now or later?

I don't know where these ideas come from, but sure wish more
people would follow the advice here.

Whether a domain is old or new, makes no difference. What matters
is what has been done to it. Why would the age of a domain matter?

You people are not living in the real world. But are sure making domain
resellers rich, I suppose.

Paul