Buying A Domain From Another IMer. Quick Question!

14 years ago

The domain age will always be there, regardless of who buys it.

Just like a car built in 1905 will always be *105 years old

*At the current date

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SeanyG 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sparhawke

The domain age will always be there, regardless of who buys it.

Just like a car built in 1905 will always be *105 years old

*At the current date

Thanks Sparhawke! Great analogy with the car!

Another quick question just came to mind.

The domain I want to buy is currently just a google adsense site. Its just pages with adwords links. The classic holding page for someone holding a domain.

Its all Good adsense ads for making money. When it was registered they were selling business related services. For the past 4 years its been just a link place holding site.

I know that this domain has few backlinks (0), few pages indexed (92) but how do I know if the domain is sandboxed or has a bad history in the eyes of google?

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- radhika 14 years ago
  
  Try keeping the domain name in Google and see if the pages are still indexed. If still they are, that means it is not banned by Google.
  
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Domain Stryker 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sparhawke

The domain age will always be there, regardless of who buys it.

Just like a car built in 1905 will always be *105 years old

*At the current date

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thecableguy 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sparhawke

The domain age will always be there, regardless of who buys it.

Just like a car built in 1905 will always be *105 years old

*At the current date

If the the domain is transferred the age will remain, but if it expires and then purchased it will reset back to zero once everything is updated.
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- Sparhawke 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by alanfukuda
  
  If the the domain is transferred the age will remain, but if it expires and then purchased it will reset back to zero once everything is updated.
  
  Which is why it is always better not to let domains drop so they don't lose their age...
  
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Sparhawke

14 years ago

You never really know if a domain is sandboxed until you find out that you cannot get indexed unfortunately, at least that is as far as I understand it.

You can however contact Google and ask them to review it.

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Zach Booker

14 years ago

If it's currently registered with, say, Namecheap get a Namecheap account and have the domain transferred internally to be safe.

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Mohammad Afaq

14 years ago

Since Domain Age is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Rankings

Watch this video from Matt Cutts:

YouTube - How much does a domain's age affect its...

EDIT: Now, I know that alot of people will say that I shouldn't be believing on everything Google says but all I say is that I trust on what Google says and i'd rather not waste my time trying to research something that I can see is wrong.

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SeanyG

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mohammad111

Watch this video from Matt Cutts:

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

EDIT: Now, I know that alot of people will say that I shouldn't be believing on everything Google says but all I say is that I trust on what Google says and i'd rather not waste my time trying to research something that I can see is wrong.

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mohammad111

Watch this video from Matt Cutts

That is... completely irrelevant.

A domain that HAS BEEN active and resolving and indexed for several years matters, not because Google pays attention to how many years it's been around, but because over those years Google has indexed the site and gathered extensive data on how much people like its content.

This video is talking about when GoDaddy says "Would you like to register that domain for FIVE YEARS?!" and you say "yes, please, because Google cares about that!"

Google does not care about that. They never have. They never will.

But let's jump back up to what we're talking about here, which is a domain that HAS BEEN registered for six years.

If you replace all the content on that site, you're destroying the benefit of that age. Google has already settled on how good the site is, and the rankings it has are pretty accurate and solid. If you go in and change everything, it will take you a lot less than six years to turn the site into absolute garbage.

It is not the age of the domain that matters. It is the content.
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- CDarklock 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Richard Odell
  
  Best to look at the cache of the site and see how it can bought into today's market-place.
  
  If a domain is "aged," it primarily means that if you keep doing what the current owner is doing, you will keep getting what the current owner is getting.
  
  If you're not going to do that (generally because what the current owner is getting isn't what you want), what you are doing is much more important than how old the domain is, so it shouldn't even be under consideration.
  
  In general, if a site has been making $300 a month in AdSense for four years, it will keep doing that if you just do what the previous owner was doing. If you don't, something else will happen, and the age of the domain simply won't matter.
  
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iSoftware

14 years ago

Originally Posted by SeanyG

Hey!

Thanks for reading this question!

I'm looking to buy a domain from an individual online that was registered in 2004. This means that it has a Domain Age of 6 years.

Since Domain Age is one of the most important factors in Search Engine Rankings, how can I get this domain transferred while keeping the domain age?

Thanks for your time and for your replies!

~Sean

I think you may be confusing indexation date and registration date...

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