Page Rank Vs Age of Domain

[tushar123]

Hi Everyone,

Recently, I got a project which had, a PR-5, with least traffic.

I want to ask regarding the same, - "Wether this website is ranking only because of it's domain age, which is 11years?" or there is some other thing also which I am not able to find out.

Please do suggest.

Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy80]

Without knowing the domain we can't really tell you why that website is ranking well. If it is PR5 it likely has rankings based on backlinks.

[crankydave]

PR is based upon incoming links. A single link passes PR.

Why a site ranks is based upon "lots" of factors.

Dave

[holyhttp]

Google PR can be based many factors but the predominant one is the amount and quality of the inbound links to the web site. Having a high PR5 and getting good traffic are however two different things, besides the fact that there are many sources of traffic.

For instance to rank high in the search engines the only factors that one should target is relevance to search keywords and how sticky is your web site content.

If visitors bounces back after they come to your web site from the search engine results page, that can only mean 2 things: your site is not relevant to what they are looking for, of your site is not showing up at all or not displaying fast enough for them to wait.

[cbosleeds]

UMMMM, don't know what happened above, anyway, you really need to check whether the keywords you are targetting are ever likely to bring in any volume of traffic - try using Google Insights for Search and also the Adwords Traffic Estimator- sometimes you can get dozens of websites all chasing worthless keywords because they haven't done their research.

[fluxerj]

knowing only the domain name...

we cannot exactly know what is the best in the domain..

so did PR

[tushar123]

Hi,

Donno what happened with Lisa in my thread, anyways coming back to topic, this is the domain for the website,

IT Staffing Services | IT Services | IT Consulting Services | IT Products (http://www.netpixel.com)

Kindly, review and let me know.

Thanks

[crankydave]

Hi,

Donno what happened with Lisa in my thread, anyways coming back to topic, this is the domain for the website,

IT Staffing Services | IT Services | IT Consulting Services | IT Products (http://www.netpixel.com)

Kindly, review and let me know.

Thanks

Please post a site review on the "Site Review" board.

Dave

[pdc001]

I agree with most of the posts. It is difficult to make an accurate estimation of the effects of age on rank.

I will say that I have 2 sites marketed similarly but one far out ranks the other and it is 2+ years older. I personally believe that Google has begun placing more emphasis on age to help weed out the spammer sites that pop up and blast the net with forum postings etc.

If you are not in it for the long run, you can be assured Google is trying to weed you out.

[Monicakidman]

Hey i think if you have unique content than you get the PR by Google. And if your domain is old than people are searching this domain by its name not by the key word so may be this is the one result for your site.

[regmac]

Hi Everyone,

Recently, I got a project which had, a PR-5, with least traffic.

I want to ask regarding the same, - "Wether this website is ranking only because of it's domain age, which is 11years?" or there is some other thing also which I am not able to find out.

Please do suggest.

Thanks in advance.

The answer is already in your question. You've mentioned that the domain is already 11 years old. It could be that the pages linking to this domain way back on the date it started has gain descent PR on its own and that it appears a quality page passing a percentage of its PR to your own. 11 years is a very long time for a single page not to gain its recognition through PR.

[inertia]

Google PR can be based many factors but the predominant one is the amount and quality of the inbound links to the web site.


Hey i think if you have unique content than you get the PR by Google.

Wrong and wrong. PR is not based on many factors it is based solely on quality and quantity of inbound links - it is a metric for calculating a page's quality from the citations it receives.

[crankydave]

Page rank is based on many factors like inbound links, keywords used in title tag, content of the page, domain of the site, anchor text used in Title tag, navigation buttons, design of the page etc. your website is ranking because the domain of the site is very old.

Utter nonsense.

PR is based on inbound links.

Dave

[arslan220]

i think page rank is more important but domain age is also important and is a good ranking factor.

[intelinside]

It is hard to tell without actually knowing the domain name.

As far as the age is concerned, I doubt about that. I have my own site with only 1 month of presence moved to PR3 just recently and there are not many backlinks as well somwhere around 40 but they are real quality links from related forums and genuine related sites.

[Ozi]

As arslan220 said , PR is more important.

[inertia]

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First of all, "dear" is what people call their loved ones. Do you love me? Replace the word "dear" with "pebble" and you'll be welcome in any forum.

Pagerank has nothing to do with a "Domain age,traffic, navigation link , Relevancy of your site and many more". It all depends on backlinks only.

[innominds]

The page rank can be manipulated but not SERPS. So there might be other SEO parameters that helps the domain to have higher ranking.

[bama1965]

Inbound Links.

Remember, as a domain ages, inbound links increase (they should anyway if the content of the site is any good).

Pretty simple really. Give good, quality content in a visually appealing package and as the domain ages inbound links will accumulate (along with PR).

Peace,
Ken