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Old domain-index so slow :(

by quyenhoang9x
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I buy a domain nomarly at godaddy, after building a website, i feel it index so slow. I checked, this domain had used 2 year ago, it still have 37 backlink, pr 0.
i don't know much about used domain. Can you tell me how this domain affect my website, SEO, what should i do to have high positions in SERPs
Hope that you can understand, coz English is not my mother language!
#domainindex #old domain #slow #slowly index
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Unless the PR0 has direct niche traffic it's useless.
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    • Profile picture of the author quyenhoang9x
      i afraid that it will bring trouble for me. That all. I don't hope that it will help me to rank higher than new domain. It will not make my website bad, isn't it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Unless the PR0 has direct niche traffic it's useless.
      Remember PR has not been updated in about eight months so thats not necessarily true. Once a domain has been down for awhile it will fall out the index and eventually show nothing. so it all depends on the quality of the links (unfortunately the OP talks about quantity alone which is never a good sign). Secondly even when the pages have juice they still may be internal pages that no longer have much traffic or even get crawled often.

      The Op has not mentioned the quality of the links or even what he means by indexing being slow (days or weeks?). So its hard to tell.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

        Remember PR has not been updated in about eight months so thats not necessarily true. Once a domain has been down for awhile it will fall out the index and eventually show nothing. so it all depends on the quality of the links (unfortunately the OP talks about quantity alone which is never a good sign). Secondly even when the pages have juice they still may be internal pages that no longer have much traffic or even get crawled often.

        The Op has not mentioned the quality of the links or even what he means by indexing being slow (days or weeks?). So its hard to tell.
        If he can't get pages indexed that probably means those 37 links are weak.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          If he can't get pages indexed that probably means those 37 links are weak.
          Maybe maybe not.
          this is WF

          i feel it index so slow
          doesn't mean he cant get his pages indexed. Doesn't even mean its been more that a day or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    yukon is right. The domain would have already sent you targeted traffic had it been niche related. An old domain as such, does not guarantee quick indexing.

    To get your website indexed fast:-

    - Use fetch as Googlebot tool
    - Submit an XML sitemap to Google
    - Interlink important pages within your site
    - Submit your website to social bookmarking websites
    - Acquire some relevant Inbound Links from authority sites that get crawled frequently
    - Submit your RSS feed to search engines
    - Ping the search engines
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    For some reason people get their knickers in a twist if their site is not indexed within, like, 10 minutes. Just forget about indexing - build it, and the spiders will come!

    THOUGH, if you have bought a "pre-loved" domain, it MIGHT be a measure of its perceived authority how quickly it gets crawled, still though, I wouldn't get all stressed about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    What it does mean, is that people need to stop the nonsense of buying an
    old domain thinking it's a fast track to riches. You gotta do a lot
    of research. What is the domain was penalized?

    Perhaps if one had bought a new domain, it would indexed within minutes...

    To Mike Anthony:

    Nobody ever talked about this before. if google is all-knowing, would they
    not know how long a domain has been offline? And would they also know what
    links were created before it came back on? And completely ignored those?
    Now and forever? Why would google give love to a site for retro backlinks?

    Just thoughts...

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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post


      Nobody ever talked about this before. if google is all-knowing,
      and um when did that bit of divinity become a fact for Google? sucking the Google kool aid really really really hard there Paul.

      would they not know how long a domain has been offline? And would they also know what links were created before it came back on? And completely ignored those?Now and forever? Why would google give love to a site for retro backlinks?
      Well

      A) Ask them because its not a "why would" - they do as many people have bought old link domains and even seen pagerank return

      B)Why should a link be discounted just because a site was offline for a while? Companies get shut down and resurrected even a year later,

      C) Its doubtful Google really sees the benefit in that amount of server load to record and analyze the date of every single link on the web.

      D) If that were so then they would have killed the domain auction market already because thats much easier ( everybody and their dogs have lists of domains going through auctions and which of them changed hands). They might do that eventually but thats not even a tenth as hard as monitoring every link and domain ever crawled.

      But anyway - certainly not. Google is not all knowing.
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  • Profile picture of the author easypr
    In my opinion the check the backlinks of your domain, if baclinks are form high authority sites and related to your business/services, it is helpful to you, Otherwise its not. For this case you can use the disavow tools to de-indexed your old backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    It makes sense that "aged backlinks" generally have less value, especially in-content ones - what was relevant and considered authoritative 5 years ago (by humans doing the linking) is, particularly depending on the niche, very likely not so much now.

    I would agree that we often underestimate the colossal amounts of processing power it takes to factor in these kinds of thing though - it could take orders of magnitude more servers just to add a major factor like that into the equation (billions of web pages with billion of links - multiplied)! On the other hand, such factors, maybe in the form of "page age" - last modified date of the page the link is on, or similar, which would be the next best thing, may already form part of today's PageRank algorithm, which has surely evolved considerably from its original beginnings.

    Either way, it's a valid debate, as creating SEO networks from aged domains is "what's working" right now - and Google has a history of going after and closing down "what's working". It's just a case of what is the most effective way for them to do that and how can we be building intelligently now with an eye to avoiding the next "slap".
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  • Profile picture of the author indojobsearch
    I guess Google bot doesn't love your site since it's not updated frequently..So Google index your new pages slowly..Domain age doesn't affect to index speed.. This is my opinion...
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