Disadvantage of using a new domain?

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Hi,
I am about to launch my new product.
I was going to get a new domain for that.

I already know that for SEO purposes domain age is important but I have never had trouble with that.
So I was just going to get a new domin.

However,

When I was using "Getresponce" (newsletter service) for trial, I found something which I had never thought about. For experiment purposes, I just wrote a randam message and tested its "smam score" function, which would tell you what spam score your message will likely have according to "spam assassin".

My message scored 0.6 out of 10, and the reason why it got 0.6 was because I included a link to "a brand new domain" (this is my other new domain).

I changed it to my other old domain on the link, and it scored 0.

I had only been thinking that "domain age" matters for SEO, but it seems like it matters to something else like this too.

Can you think about anything else?

I'm starting wonder if I should use a subdomain of my existing domain for the new product.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    I think domain age especially comes into play when dealing with competitive keywords. Other than that, don't worry about it. I just the other day went straight to #2 on a phrase with a new domain in about a 2-3 week period.
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    • Profile picture of the author jglover
      you could always use a subdomain in your emails that redirects to your new domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author ikuret75
    Thanks guys,
    Yeah, for SEO actually I have never had trouble with domain age. Even with competitive keywords I have been able to get #1 or close to it with new domains.
    But, I was not sure if there is any "hidden" disadvantage. I have never thought about spam score going up.

    I know using my other domain on the mail and redirect, but I don't want to do it becuase my newsletter readers might think it is strange that the domain names change from the link....I maybe obver concerned but I want to use the domain of my sales site on my news letters.
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    • Profile picture of the author Domainate
      Originally Posted by ikuret75 View Post

      Thanks guys,
      Yeah, for SEO actually I have never had trouble with domain age. Even with competitive keywords I have been able to get #1 or close to it with new domains.
      But, I was not sure if there is any "hidden" disadvantage. I have never thought about spam score going up.

      I know using my other domain on the mail and redirect, but I don't want to do it becuase my newsletter readers might think it is strange that the domain names change from the link....I maybe obver concerned but I want to use the domain of my sales site on my news letters.
      Obviously ranking for stuff can still happen with new domains, but consider this: What you're witnessing is the kind of safety measures that Google likely uses as well. They have all the data in the world practically and can look at any commonality amongst scam sites and if any of that is present in a domain/site they're finding for the first time, those factors likely would negatively impact you. Obviously they're aware that a lot of legit people use new domains too, but still, if you can spend a few bucks to avoid even a small negative impact, why not?

      Also, depending on how savvy your visitors may be, having an aged domain looks more professional and less scammy to them too, like you're more established. Granted my life's work is in the domain industry so I look up whois on domains all the time, but I know of some people like developers, marketers etc. that do it as well for new sites they come across. In fact, as an example, I used to run a free samples site and would post offers from other sites. After a while I developed a process by which I did it, and when considering running a particular offer I came across, the very first thing I looked at was the whois on the domain to see if it was regged recently. I was doing that because more often than not, offers that were on sites on newly regged domains turned out to be scam offers that never delivered.
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      • Profile picture of the author ikuret75
        Originally Posted by Nametrader.com View Post

        Obviously ranking for stuff can still happen with new domains, but consider this: What you're witnessing is the kind of safety measures that Google likely uses as well. They have all the data in the world practically and can look at any commonality amongst scam sites and if any of that is present in a domain/site they're finding for the first time, those factors likely would negatively impact you. Obviously they're aware that a lot of legit people use new domains too, but still, if you can spend a few bucks to avoid even a small negative impact, why not?

        Also, depending on how savvy your visitors may be, having an aged domain looks more professional and less scammy to them too, like you're more established. Granted my life's work is in the domain industry so I look up whois on domains all the time, but I know of some people like developers, marketers etc. that do it as well for new sites they come across. In fact, as an example, I used to run a free samples site and would post offers from other sites. After a while I developed a process by which I did it, and when considering running a particular offer I came across, the very first thing I looked at was the whois on the domain to see if it was regged recently. I was doing that because more often than not, offers that were on sites on newly regged domains turned out to be scam offers that never delivered.
        Thanks a lot. In my niche people are not that computer/internet savvy but, yes, they might think it as strange when they click a link and it leads to a site of some other domain than one shown on the link.

        What I am thinking about is to use a subdomain of my established site in the same niche - But at the same time this is a subdomain. Google treats it as a independent domain as of now but they change it.

        Thanks for your reply again,
        Teruki
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  • Profile picture of the author ikuret75
    Originally Posted by Razer Rage View Post

    It could be that your domain contains "spam" keywords in it. And I'm not surprised that a new domain name hurts your score.

    Don't worry about it. Your domain will gain age and build trust over time, assuming you put high quality content on it.
    Hi,
    thanks for your reply!

    It specifically said "the domain is brand new - 3 days old" as the reason for adding spam score so I doubt the spaming keywords idea and also because the domain name is in Japanese (using alphabet though).

    Anyway, yeah, brand new is brand new only for a certain amount of time so maybe I shouldn't worry so much about it. I'll think about it and hopefully will come up with a conclusion!

    Thanks for your time
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