News Source: http://www.searchenginejournal.com
Published: Jul 15, 2008 - 09:45 am
Story Found By: dsnyder 1772 Days ago
Category: SEO
"One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. "
3 Comments
Comments
I was all up in arms at first going "What do you mean it’s not important?!?!?" until you stated that Website age is what’s important."Oh, ok, yeah, that’s what I meant. We’re good now."Lol... Good post, Ann!
Indeed, it’s not the age of a domain - it’s the search history that appears all important.That’s why for a few years now it’s been standard SEO practice to get at least a holding page (but preferably a couple of basic pages) up on any new domain registration.
In round-about terms, the age of a domain name — much like most of the criteria assessed by any search engine — is often not much of an indicator of anything in isolation.Such criteria often come into their own once they’re cross reference with several other criteria...