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Does renewing a domain name each year really hurt SE rankings?

by ronr
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I've heard a lot of people saying that they always renew their domains for 3 years or more because it will hurt SE rankings if it's less. Others just renew each year.

Does anyone have any real evidence to support this one way or another or is this whole idea an online myth?

Ron
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtab
    Don't worry about this just make sure your domain is not expiring in less than 1 year.

    It is recommended to register a domain at least fro 2 years.
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  • Profile picture of the author MatthewNeer
    Yeah, I don't think that will ever create much of an issue unless you let the domain name totally expire. Just have it set for automatic renewal and you will be good to go.
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    • Profile picture of the author Trent Brownrigg
      I've never had problems getting sites ranked and I renew most of my domains yearly. Sometimes when I know for a fact that I will be keeping a site for a long time I will renew it for longer, but not often.
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  • Profile picture of the author dankas
    I'm sure soon enough someone will be selling us an ebook for just $27 abou this stuff, saying how it's really important to renew for 10 years, cause Google got a bird flu or something :-P
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    • Profile picture of the author Crew Chief
      Originally Posted by ronr View Post

      I've heard a lot of people saying that they always renew their domains for 3 years or more because it will hurt SE rankings if it's less.
      I hope you are not listening to them for any other SEO advice, tips or help.

      Originally Posted by ronr View Post

      Does anyone have any real evidence to support this one way or another or is this whole idea an online myth?
      You want the TRUTH?

      You can't handle the TRUTH!

      Watch this video by Robert Wuhl; He breaks down the real deal behind if this domain name issue is a myth or not.


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      • Profile picture of the author Jeff Henshaw
        Very nice Giles.

        The video brightened up a boring evening.

        I guess that self same video applies to much of the 'facts' that are provided by many self proclaimed experts in the IM niche.

        Jeff.
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  • Profile picture of the author Qualibid
    You can safely renew your domain names each year.
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    As stated above, the length that you have your domain renewed for would be 1 tiny piece of everything that google takes into consideration when ranking (if they even consider it at all).

    I doubt they would penalize you if you only renewed for a year, after all that is probably what most people do.

    If it counts for anything than maybe if you renew for more than 1 year you might get some brownie points.

    No one really knows for sure but if you were google, how much weight would you put on it?

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    • Profile picture of the author Crew Chief
      Originally Posted by Jeff Henshaw View Post

      Very nice Giles.

      The video brightened up a boring evening.

      I guess that self same video applies to much of the 'facts' that are provided by many self proclaimed experts in the IM niche.

      Jeff.
      Jeff, that's an understatement!

      It's like the SEO Expert who tried to convince me that I would never rank on a set of targeted keywords unless I used BLs that were relevant and met a certain quality criteria that he laid out.

      I sent him that video of Robert Wuhl and he got really perturbed.

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      • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
        No based on my own personal experience it doesn't make a substantial difference.

        Focus on giving the search engines what they want on your site...highly targeted high quality content.

        And get high quality related sites to link to you in some way.

        That's what you should be focusing on.

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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Who knows? I believe it may be a myth started by people who want to sell more years of web hosting in advance...
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  • Profile picture of the author kvnkane
    ive read some myths in my time but this is totally bs. one of my websites competes with 2 multi million pound websites for some competitive keywords. guess what? for that domain i register it every year.
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