Domain Age WTF?

by normahl

Posted: 12 years ago 6 replies

Just bought a domain for some of my niche sites.
Got a design going and installed All in One SEO.
Nothing more.
So I checked my site age and google tells me my domain is 7,5 years old? wtf
Just bought it in January.
Im also on top 4 on yahoo with my sites and didn't backlink at all, just cause of my domain age?
How is this possible?

#age #domain #wtf

mosthost 12 years ago

How did you check the age? Did you do a WHOIS?
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halfpoint 12 years ago

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- dburk 12 years ago
  
  Hi normahl,
  
  Sounds like you bought a formerly registered domain that had backlinks still pointing at it. Nothing to do with domain age.
  
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  Andylinks 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by dburk
  
  Hi normahl,
  
  Sounds like you bought a formerly registered domain that had backlinks still pointing at it. Nothing to do with domain age.
  
  Most likely explanation
  
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UMS 12 years ago

The age of a domain is determined from when it was first registered. It doesn't matter if the domain has expired a number of times in that period.

In your case, it sounds like you accidentally bought an aged domain with good backlinks. Some people spend a lot of time trying to find those.

In order to retain the existing link juice, make sure you put some 301 redirects in place for pages that don't exist on your new site, otherwise those links get wasted.
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Simin 12 years ago

I think the registrar make a mistake about the latest register...
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pwtmike 12 years ago

sounds like you got a good deal. i've done the same thing before, you go to register a domain and find out it was already registered, the previous owner may have just let the registration lapse and never renew it...
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