Why Are My Domains Not Ageing?

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I have searched the forum but can't find anything on this, so hope someone can enlighten me. Hoping this is not a dumb question...

A have a few domains which have just turned a year old in Jan/Feb. At present they are still showing zero domain age - why is that?

I have a couple of domains which were aged when I got them and they are continuing to age - but not the ones I started from 0.

I also noticed that a site my partner has, which is about five years old, still shows no domain age.

Can anyone tell me why this is?

Thanks

Pauline
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  • Profile picture of the author Croz
    Which plugin are you using to get the domain age?
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Do you have real websites on them, or are you using the parked domain service at the domain registrar.

    I have heard that using the park domain services allows the very thing to happen that you are describing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    I have checked using Market Samurai and Traffic Travis.

    I have live sites on them, none are parked.
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    • Profile picture of the author Croz
      PM me the domain name and I can look into it with a couple of other tools.

      Cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author christopher jon
    More importantly, why do you care?

    You're splitting hairs over stuff that doesn't matter. If your site is indexed by google that's all that really matters.

    Google has an opinion of your site and you'll never know what it is. Best to move along to more important things and leave google to its googlesque lifestyle.

    Back to your question, just because a tool has a feature doesn't mean it works or is accurate.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    I'm not splitting hairs, I am curious about why, thats all.
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  • Profile picture of the author trishworks4u
    I've actually wondered about this myself (and I do care). My main money site is over 2 years old now and still shows "no age" in seo quake. also just checked in MS, which pulls from Majestic, and it's the same thing. no age.

    I don't get it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Croz
      Originally Posted by trishworks4u View Post

      I've actually wondered about this myself (and I do care). My main money site is over 2 years old now and still shows "no age" in seo quake. also just checked in MS, which pulls from Majestic, and it's the same thing. no age.

      I don't get it.
      Many of the tools you're using to check domain age have been having problems lately. I read a post somewhere that said it had something to do with the recent google changes. So they're probably in the process of updating MS. Infact, I upgraded my copy of MS the other day.

      Go below and check your domain age. If these sites come back with accurate info, then don't worry because Google can see that too.

      Domain Age Check Tool - SEOLogs.com
      Check Domain Age

      Cheers!
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      • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
        Thanks Croz - I had a look using those tools and sure enough my sites are showing the age I would expect them to.

        Thanks for your help.

        Pauline
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        • Profile picture of the author Vanfenix
          Yes, many tools don't check site dirs properly - and I believe that if some are hosted on GD - they won't show up for some reason. Really there is no need to worry about it though. Just ensure your "Title" tag has something in it.
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          • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
            Hi Pauline,

            The best way to tell the age of a domain is by using the WHOIS data.

            However it will never actually tell really how old the domain is.

            You can look on the webarchive at archive.org to see if the site was registered before the date on the WHOIS data as well as this does happen where the date is reset.

            However the real thing is when Google found a link to the site and when Google first indexed the site. This should be of more importance because it matters when Google sees the site and ages it.

            Heres what Matt Cutts had to say on the issue

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