Aged Domain with backlinks

Most of those sites are selling SEO tools and they need to have as many elements as possible to make it seem like it's a hard subject to understand and that you need lots of special tools to work out what to do.

In reality it's very simple and most of the tools are flawed, so you can end up spending a lot of time worrying about all the wrong things and then struggling to get results.

I remember when I first got into seo and was spending ages studying it and working out what all the special little things that helped were - then I spoke to someone else who had started at the same time and they were telling me about how much money they were making. When I asked how they worked it out they just said "all that stuff seemed to complicated for me to understand so I just built sites and put as much useful content on them as I could then tried to spread the word."

SEO is one of those areas of IM where unless it's your primary business you probably know 'too much' and are so in the details you're just not doing the stuff you already know how to do and that works.

So many people come here looking for answers and the latest cool new strategies and spend so much time trying to learn new things that they're actually not doing the ones they already know.

The simple answer to seo is - understand basic on and off-page enough to know to use a CMS like Wordpress (that removes 'most' of the need to think about it) and get your content out there and linked to with decent syndication and advertising.

Don't try to be clever and trick the search engines - just use good site structure and have good content. Once you have that nailed you can brainstorm how best to spread the word and get links, but simple is usually better. For example - having a nice WP template created that's themed for your niche and has a link to your site and giving it away could get you more useful links than anything else you might try - and you do almost no work to make it happen.

If you just use your brain rather than looking for secrets and shortcuts - this stuff becomes much simpler.

Andy

I'm just talking from personal experience here. It's definitely not a huge factor, but it does seem to help. It seems to be easier to get an aged domain name to rank if it has aged content & aged backlinks from within the targeted market. I'm buying new & aged domain names all of the time, and this is just what I have personally experienced.