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Domain Age: How Important Is It for SEO?

Tuesday, 15 July 2008

One SEO related question which is often asked throughout webmaster forums is how much domain registration age is important for SEO. The points behind this question include:

well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logics, an old domain should mean that the site is well established;
spammers register and drop domains quickly, thus logically spamming sites usually have newly registered domain names.

Generally, webmasters agree that domain age is hardly a powerful ranking factor but opinions vary:

it can be no factor at all;
it can play only a single minor factor in the millions of other factors (but it still is);
it matters a lot (as most participants of this discussion seem to agree, for example).

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