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Are aged domains the way to go?

by altos
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Hi,

I was in the midst of trying to stick to my plan of staying focused this year and got sidetracked yet again....I have a simple question which I hope the experts on here will help me out with.

All things being equal, if I could get an aged domain to build out for an affiliate marketing purpose at a cost ($150) vs registering and starting from a fresh domain does it make that big a difference?

P.S. If any of you are looking for a great free resource for researching aged domains check out aged-domain-finder.com. Really great tool. I don't know much about the lads behind it (remember Iam trying to stay focused!! :-) but I have found it very helpful.

Thanks for any insights you can offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
    If you plan to use SEO as one of your main traffic sources go for it. It depends on exactly how old the domain is, but if the name is good and if it has some pagerank, 150 is really not that much- but as I said- it depends wether the domain is 3, 5 or 10+ year old.

    But if I could find a more catchy domain name that is not yet registered, I' d go the cheap way.

    Those were my two cents

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author MemberWing
    I think the difference is marginal to negligible these days. Google is getting smarter to ignore that and looking into visitor's behavior vs. age of name.

    Speaking from my own experience - I registered brand new domain 6 months ago and today it's on the first page of Google for broad buying keyphrase with 32,000,000 (yes, 32 millions) competing pages + 12 pages worth of competing ads.
    Neither aging nor SEO could do that, it's all about value you put into portal.

    Gleb
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    • Profile picture of the author altos
      Wow! That's impressive Gleb!! Thanks for the insights guys. The domain I am thinking of buying is 5 ys old but has no links or page rank. I'm torn...but I think given Gleb's advice go the cheap route and invest the money in linkbuilding and content. We'll see....

      Warren
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  • Profile picture of the author MemberWing
    Altos, unless it's the name that you love.

    I'd spend extra money on a good .com name that fits your business, the rest is last year's snow....

    Gleb
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Dalangin
    Check first if the name is not banned. If the name is good and brandable then get it. It's good also if the domain has traffic. I love aged domains and I think I have more or less a hundred aged domains right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Derek Pankaew
    Use FreshDrop.net - The Domain Searching Platform to find great aged domains with PR 2-4 for $40 and under.

    Criteria search is on the right. Make sure you select "Exp Domains" at the top rather than closeouts.

    This is a great site for finding aged domains. And yes, I believe having an aged domain, especially with PR or backlinks is a great strategy for SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author jrsencio
    Doesn't matter much these days. I registered a new domain last month and its pulling in good search engine traffic from several first page rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author altos
      Thanks for the input guys. Really good insights here. Derek, I will definitely check out that site you mentioned.

      Have a good night.
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  • Profile picture of the author Liz Sullivan
    Altos,

    I've read that Google "resets" domain age when they see a ownership transfer, but you might still get some benefits if the domain already has incoming links.

    Liz
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    • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
      Originally Posted by Liz Sullivan View Post

      Altos,

      I've read that Google "resets" domain age when they see a ownership transfer, but you might still get some benefits if the domain already has incoming links.

      Liz
      It all depends on your timing. If you buy an aged domain or a domain that has established a good PR, you can keep that rating if you immediately rebuild the domain with the exact content it had before it changed ownership. You can check archive.org to grab past content (be careful of trademark and copyright issues). Once you've done this and let it sit for several weeks, you should be able to replace the old content with your own and keep the PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Graham Holmes
    This has been a great post!

    An aged domain I'm looking at has PR3... it's got a Forum attached to it, but it's not something I'd be looking to focus on just yet; however, I've a nagging feeling if I deleted the forum, PR would nose dive... would that be the case?

    If it was, could something be done like making the link hidden - put it in a div tag then us CSS positioning to send it waaaay off the page ???



    I've read that Google "resets" domain age when they see a ownership transfer
    Liz,

    do you recall where you read that?


    regards,

    Graham

    oh, I found a site that explains PR... it's, er, very long - but detailed, seems well researched: webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
    (would have been a link, but I've not yet reached 15 posts)

    ...if you click the 'Tips' link, on that 'site, it mentions about Domain names.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jamie Iaconis
      Me, personally, knowing what I know and can do, would opt for a new domain...

      If you are not very seasoned you may want to go
      the way of buying the aged domain, but if you
      implement certain strategies, grab a new one!

      Jamie
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      • Profile picture of the author Graham Holmes
        Originally Posted by Jamie Iaconis View Post

        Me, personally, knowing what I know and can do, would opt for a new domain...

        If you are not very seasoned you may want to go
        the way of buying the aged domain, but if you
        implement certain strategies, grab a new one!

        Jamie

        Jamie,

        are those 'certain strategies' mainly link-building? I'm currently going through a course on SEO, and link-building is a main part of it.

        I've also read about external links taking away from your PR score... interestingly, the article went on to say how using a rel="nofollow" in the link tells the search engine to ignore the link, so it's no longer a problem to the PR.

        It makes sense - but, hey, I'm just beginner at this SEO malarky.
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        • Profile picture of the author LarryW
          great comments here, thanks.

          I feel it is not the AGE of the domain that I want, but instead the Backlinks already built.

          And there is other "rank" besides PR. We see sites that do not renew, and they have "ranked" for a keyword (or dozens) as far as appearring on Google page 1.

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