Does Google give aged sites more preference?

Short answer: Yes.

You have to remember, at the end of the day, Google's algorithm is just a big math equation. They don't single-out sites because YOU think it should be removed (saying that in the nicest way possible) - especially if you may only know 10% of what these algorithm updates actually are trying to do (in mat equation terms).

If they're giving a bunch of free images, they're probably getting a bunch of free links, plus social signals, sharing, etc...

You should think about doing the same. Check their backlinks and see if you can get into a couple of places they have links.

Really? Thank you for this kind of information. If I have a two year old site that ranks well in Google, I can leave it alone because it can maintain it's rank on its own or better yet, achieve a higher ranking?

What do you mean by "aged" domain? I am about to drop a 7-year old .info domain...

I know that old website have always had value, but the domain by itself not so... In other words, if your domain was never indexed and never had any content, its age may not matter too much. I know many people owning domains for a decade before building a very first site and they could never outrank my younger sites. Authority is more than age of the domain. You probably get more "Google points" for registering your domain for 5+ years, instead of a typical 1 year :-)

So lets say I have a site that is authoritative, established and super old, but has not been worked on for a few years and has just sat there and basically is dying.

If I fix the site up and show Google consistency, will this site get ranked much quicker than a site thats been around for a year or so?

Clearly its established or authoritative, so Google must give it some type of preference over others...

Domain age is a ranking factor. It shows evidence that you're building a brand, an authority and with the right content (and incoming backlinks) you will be rewarded well for an aged domain.

When you obtain a certain level of PR and DA your site becomes invincible to Google. Wikipedia is great example of this. It's DA and PR8 authority ensures that it will not be punished for duplicate content, poor grammar, poor spelling, web SPAM, anchor text over-optimization, incoming links from shady networks etc etc.

Wikipedia has all of the above in abundance.

Yes, older sites do seem to get a little more love from Google, if they meet some of the other criteria as well.

This is a study I just ran across, and found it helpful. It is a rankings factor study.
SEO Ranking Factors - Rank Correlation 2013 for Google USA 2013

No, Google doesn't give an aged site preference, I think your confusing domain age with established backlinks, they're not the same things.

This is why people around here buy dropped domains, they could care less about the domain name/age, the established backlinks is what they're after.

You could have a 15 year old domain that's never had a site built on the domain & no backlinks, it won't have any SEO value (serves no purpose).









I have 3 sites similar to what your describing, zero articles, I rank pages all the time. Most of my content is inside zip files for my traffic to download. On my pages I have a single image, a very short description that averages around one sentence, & a link to a zip file (per page).

There's only a few key on-page things I target for ranking pages (ex: page title, <h> tags, alt text, internal links, surrounding plain text). I do a few other things but that's the on-page basics. It's not how much text you have on a page, it's what you do with that text & how you link internal pages.

Check your competitions Google Cache (text version) & compare to the live web page/s.

Example of a low text page.

Now have a look at the live web page, looks a little different, right?
Dafont is link sculpting their internal links by hiding all those Nav links with javascript at the top of each page on their site. They've been doing this for years & I've never seen them have a problem in the SERPs.

in equall situation with newst site, old domain get better rank but its not compeletly common on every situation

The easy answer, as others have said.. YES.

I actually fell foul of the aged domain in the Forex market - I purchased the domain, put up my content and though yes I should have a winner here - registered with Google Analytics and Webmaster tools.

What I hadn’t realised was the that the previous owner had done a lot of work on the site and must have had 1500+ pages which no longer existed and Google really did not like have 000's of pages indexed which no longer existed

Having an aged site while providing useful content all the time,google will notice that and give your sites more credit,it do help for your ranking

In short way ,Google give the preference to the old age site

I don't think that it matters, or if it ever did in the past. Talking about present time, all that matters is the content on your site, the quality of content on your site is observed by google and then treated accordingly.