Has Google increased importance of AGE of DOMAIN?

[scanmonkey]

Has Google increased importance of AGE of DOMAIN?

I was playing with Age of top 10 Websites with Backlinks Tool and I did about a dozen seaches and there was nothing before 2002. Mostly around 1998

Google has always favoured older sites, but, is this a trend toward greater importance of AGE of DOMAIN?

[Ender]

Originally Posted by scanmonkey

Has Google increased importance of AGE of DOMAIN?

I was playing with Age of top 10 Websites with Backlinks Tool and I did about a dozen seaches and there was nothing before 2002. Mostly around 1998

Google has always favoured older sites, but, is this a trend toward greater importance of AGE of DOMAIN?

Yep. Old news. See, it's become a problem that people will register a domain, keep it up for just a few days, run ads on it, (we've all seen these phony search engines) and then cancel the domain before the refund period ends (30 days, I think.)

Thusly, Google decided to reward people who are building sites that are clearly intended for the very-long-haul.

[linkstraffic]

interesting tool.

[linkstraffic]

it s a good way to analyse the competitors, those who rank well while they are recent must a have good seo methods (depending on the keyword popularity).

[freehits]

Originally Posted by Ender

See, it's become a problem that people will register a domain, keep it up for just a few days, run ads on it, (we've all seen these phony search engines) and then cancel the domain before the refund period ends (30 days, I think.)

Thusly, Google decided to reward people who are building sites that are clearly intended for the very-long-haul.

yes and no.

Its called Kiting, and Its only a 5 day period, so rewarding old domains cant be connected to this.

here is some great reading on this seperate problem though:

From Bob Parson Blog:
http://www.bobparsons.com/MayKiting.html

92.3% of May registrations were kited domains!
Consider this: Just over 35 million names were registered for the month of May. Of those just over 2.7 million were permanent registrations. That means that 92.3% of all domain names registered were part of a scam now known as domain kiting. These names were kept off of the market, they were used to generate search engine revenue – AND BECAUSE OF A LOOPHOLE ICANN REFUSES TO ELIMINATE – those 32.3 million names were used without being paid for.

Rewarding an aged domain may deter some forms of spam, but it is a pretty inefficient way to influence relevence. The final product may be somewhat more relevent, but you allow other forms of irrelevence into the top pages.

EXAMPLE; nest time you get a link to your website, and then find that the page with that link outranks you cause the URL is older.

Prevent one problem but causes this other seperate problem.

[scanmonkey]

Originally Posted by Narasinha

Perhaps Google has added P3P to the many factors in their algorithm, as they have done with the age of the domain name (See The Age of a Domain Name on webconfs.com).

It appears that they want to have some way to ascertain the reliability or trustworthiness of a page. Obviously, this is a very difficult thing to do with a computer algorithm, no matter how complicated. I guess the P3P information may be another of Google's indicators.

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic...=312561#312561

Narasinha and Webnauts, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

I read the article and I like the part about

Two things that are considered in the age of a domain name are:

The age of the website
The length of time a domain has been registered"

[Tubby]

I have a new domain that seems to have done very well with excellent results from google searches for minor terms and multiple word search terms. From where I sit No PR seems to have no disadvantage for minor search terms.
I think google might actually be trying to find what a searcher is looking for.

Going on my sites alone - Google seems to have kept pr for my navigation pages - and is delivering traffic to non pr pages. (net gain)

I seem to have lost some traffic from major search terms . . but I am gaining it from content pages.

I like it, so far. I get the imptession google does not feel the need to give pr to 'final destination pages' - Just pr for 'navigation'

this opinion is currently being formed looking only at
restored-classics.com
restored-classic.com
photohosters.com
restocar.com
sumpy.com

Looks all good to me. I might have a new opinion tomorrow..

[Tubby]

Is it possible that Google could designate a page as either - 'Content' or 'Navigation' and then assign different rules to each ?

This is the question I find myself asking after. looking at this update

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by Tubby

Is it possible that Google could designate a page as either - 'Content' or 'Navigation' and then assign different rules to each ?

I can't give you my word for that, but I can tell, that I have considered that and some other possibilities before the recent update. ;)

[virtualtraveller]

It's a combination of age of domain, age of pages, age of links, together with all the other SEO parameters.

Certainly age helps, for example I can clearly see how sites are ahead of me in the rankings yet they display poor or no SEO. I can only assume it's because they are several years older.

The weighting is heavy, but once you've gotten through about 2/3 year the disadvantage of young age diminishes.

Otherwise owners of old domains would be making a fortune selling them. I doubt google would favour an older site on age alone since some of the older sites haven't been touched for years and the pace of change of web media means newer sites are so much better.

The advantage of older sites is that have enjoyed page 1 ranking most of their life is that they have benefitted over time from many others finding them more easily and linking to them, or with them. So, the longer you are on page 1 the more chance of people linking to you - if you site is decent of course.