Domain Age: Does It Matter If It's Indexed in Google?..

[blend]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone has any experience with this but i am interested in purchasing a couple of domain that are over 2 years old but are not indexed in google.

Will this still be a good ranking factor in google eyes although it's not indexed but has a decent age?

Anyone know the answer to this?

[NovaAffiliate]

I dont believe the age of a domain has to great of an impact on the ranking of the site; it's the content and back-links that matter the most to search engines.

[wpexplosion]

as my experience NOT
my new sited indexing faster than old one

[blend]

I don't think you understand what i mean.

Age domains have a major ranking factor in google than new domains.

Any one lol

[hatma14]

I thought google looks at the content and not the age of domain

[blend]

Originally Posted by hatma14

I thought google looks at the content and not the age of domain

Yes that's true but aged domains are better in terms of seo etc...

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by blend

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone has any experience with this but i am interested in purchasing a couple of domain that are over 2 years old but are not indexed in google.

Blend its a common misunderstanding in SEO. the registration domain age is not what really matters - it s the age of the domain IN GOOGLE. So a domain that has been registered for two years sitting down and never used has never been indexed by Google and Google will still consider it new. What you want for aged in a domain that has been registered and indexed.

[blend]

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

Blend its a common misunderstanding in SEO. the registration domain age is not what really matters - it s the age of the domain IN GOOGLE. So a domain that has been registered for two years sitting down and never used has never been indexed by Google and Google will still consider it new. What you want for aged in a domain that has been registered and indexed.

Hi Mike,

That's what i thought. I might aswell purchase a new domain then lol

[outwest]

If it has expired and been deindexed, I THINk that the domain age starts all over

correct me if I am wrong about this. The history on Whois may show the original registration date however if it expires, and gets deindexed, 6 mos later you buy it, I do not think the old age and trust passes to you

[Tcalp]

Domain age no longer carries significant weight for SEO. The thing you might be confusing it with is how many backlinks an aged domain may have to it's root domain when someone purchases an older domain name.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by blend

I don't think you understand what i mean.

Age domains have a major ranking factor in google than new domains.

Any one lol

Hi blend,

I disagree, domain age is certainly not a major factor, if it is even a factor at all is quite debatable. It doesn't make since that Google, or any other search engine, would use the domain age, verses the age of indexed documents. A domain is often re-purposed and it would make Google look silly if a domain about auto insurance ranked high in the SERP for "peach cobbler recipes", just because it is aged.

It is apparent that aged backlinks pass more link juice due to higher earned trust. I believe the only reason a "real" SEO professional would ever look at domain age is because a domain would have to be old before it could contain aged backlinks. However, just because a domain is old, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has aged backlinks.

I believe it is not the age of the domains that is important, instead, it is age of the backlinks, that garner trust, and as a result greater link juice value is passed. This is exactly why some aged domains when purchased retain PR, while others do not.

[blend]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi blend,

I disagree, domain age is certainly not a major factor, if it is even a factor at all is quite debatable. It doesn't make since that Google, or any other search engine, would use the domain age, verses the age of indexed documents. A domain is often re-purposed and it would make Google look silly if a domain about auto insurance ranked high in the SERP for "peach cobbler recipes", just because it is aged.

It is apparent that aged backlinks pass more link juice due to higher earned trust. I believe the only reason a "real" SEO professional would ever look at domain age is because a domain would have to be old before it could contain aged backlinks. However, just because a domain is old, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has aged backlinks.

I believe it is not the age of the domains that is important, instead, it is age of the backlinks, that garner trust, and as a result greater link juice value is passed. This is exactly why some aged domains when purchased retain PR, while others do not.

Yes i understand what your saying but when i say that aged domains have a major ranking factor...they do! Provided your wanting to target certain keywords that the relevant to the domain name etc..

If a domain/website is for sale. is nicely indexed in google, backlinks etc then this is more worthy to invest that purchasing a new domain. New websites generally take longer to rank, especially on competitive term.

For example: people have been complaining that google new panda update has resulted in rubbish search terms. Have noticed that older and more trusted domains are ranking higher than domains with much better on page seo etc?...Well i have. Makes you think eh...

[dburk]

Originally Posted by blend

Yes i understand what your saying but when i say that aged domains have a major ranking factor...they do! Provided your wanting to target certain keywords that the relevant to the domain name etc..

If a domain/website is for sale. is nicely indexed in google, backlinks etc then this is more worthy to invest that purchasing a new domain. New websites generally take longer to rank, especially on competitive term.

For example: people have been complaining that google new panda update has resulted in rubbish search terms. Have noticed that older and more trusted domains are ranking higher than domains with much better on page seo etc?...Well i have. Makes you think eh...

Hi blend,

Again, I disagree with the assertion that it is the age of the "domain" that is important. It isn't the domain age but the age of documents in Google's link graph that matters. An aged domain without aged backlinks carries no more ranking benefit than a brand new, "just registered" domain.

Please note that I am making a distinction between the domain registration age verses the age of links in Google's index. They are two different things, one is important while the other isn't.

As far as the Panda Update goes, from my observations it has been low quality, or unoriginal content, that was affected. I have not heard of or seen any credible evidence that suggest it was anything other than just that. What many seem to fail to recognize is that it doesn't matter how well your on page SEO is done if you ignore quality issues. Panda was about content quality not keyword optimization. It is essentially a "quality score" for organic search results.

Anyone who has managed AdWords campaigns will be quite familiar with the notion of "quality scores" and how they effect the ranking of ads. It seems logical that Google has extended this "quality score" concept to organic SERP rankings. Naturally they are looking at different elements than the AdWords algorithm for quality scoring, but you have got to believe that some of the same basic principles are inherit in the organic quality scoring.