How important is Domain Age to SEO?
 

It's still an unknown for me.

I had a domain name 9 year old and worth nothing.

Any sharing in this regard?

An old domain is worth it, if and only if,

- It has a good number of relevant, authority backlinks
- It has a high PR
- It is a reputed domain (i.e. it enjoyed a good search ranking)

�Age� in itself, does not guarantee rankings.

Having old domain name never means to get rank well in Google.You need to perform quality SEO work with quality content on that domain.Old domain can help you to get rank fast but you will need to perform SEO work.

The most important thing by Googles updated algorithm is Content. Tour content should be unique, subject oriented. Other thing is backlinks. These two factors do lot for ranking

Age is factor in SEO but if will be considered only in the well optimized sites. Aged site with quality content and Well optmized(on and off) better than new optimized site

Thanks a lot all of you for giving your ideas, I also have the same question and I get my answer.

Though Age Factor in Search Engine Optimization is Plus Point But in Certain Cases! If and Only If your Site have unique and Fresh content with Optimized Meta Settings and Good Page Rank!

Yes I agree with you.

I'd say domain age is one of the factors that influence better SEO ranking.

it is very much important.

While domain age is a factor in SEO, it�s not a huge deciding factor. As others have mentioned, you also need some backlinks and it is a reputed domain. But as an older name it does have a bit of a head start compared to a fresh site.

Good SEO strategy can make your site ranking

No matter how old is the domain name. The thing is how many backlinks that a domain have. If a domain name having more no. of backlinks then it will be a help for us in getting high page rank easily.

When we start SEO for a fresh website, We have to index website in major search engines. Search engines take time to index websites. If your domain is really old , Search engines give preference to index fast.Domain age consideration is one of the point of SEO

Domain age is a very important part in case of SEO, because if you are doing SEO for very old domain, then this will increase the faith for other webmasters who will directly impact the SEO work.

yeah this is it [�Age� in itself, does not guarantee rankings.]

Yes old domain age is useful in SEO & Old domain age is very much important !
Age is factor in SEO but if will be considered only in the well optimized sites

Whereas Domain Authority measures the predictive ranking strength of entire domains or subdomains, Page Authority measures the strength of individual page. The same is true for metrics such as MozRank and MozTrust.

Such a informative post

Domain age factor in as part of their algorithm for sure. It doesn't replace keywords, but it will add value to them.

Domain age is no matter in seo. My lots of website still on top position in search engines.

Its nice having old domain . enjoy

I think, domain edge is very important to increase the website rank.

Based on your scenario, it looks like a very easy place to rank. The pages currently ranking there are only ranking because of their age, they obviously aren't even trying to rank for your keyword.

So for that reason, you will be able to beat them with some strong onpage SEO and a little link building.



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Domain Age is an important to get the best backlink for your website.

How important is Domain Age to SEO
 

Domain age does matter but clearly in association with many other factors. There are quality signals that the Search Engines are looking out for before they allow a site to rank well for competitive queries & domain age is likely one of them.

Old domains may carry more weight due to their past records.

Although domain age is a factor for SEO, but it will worth only if you keep updating your website till then.
If you would have been updating your website for 9 years with genuine content you would have been on top.. :)

I would like to think that over time, if you keep the content of your website fresh and up to date that it would automatically rise to the top of the rankings but I dont believe it is as easy as that. Links links and more links are what you need and then the whole trust rank thing needs to be built up

Well-established sites have old domain names, so by reverse logic, an old domain should mean that the site is well established.

Old domain has several advantages 1) Trustworthiness of website 2) Known by search engines 3) Sometimes helps to achieve better search engine rank.

Old Domain does not guarantee rankings in Google. You need to have high quality backlinks from authorative sites and a high PR to get the worth of old domains.

The age of the domain is built up of how long the content has been actually on the web, how long the site has been in promotion,and even the last time content was updated.
So the age of the domain name plays a vital role in ranking.........
If you are having an old domain name...........that adds more credibility to your search engine rankings..
especially google gives more importance to domain age...........
So using this site www.WhoisXY.com , you can gather the information of the domain name creator and owner of the domain name also it displays the information of the domain name that is when is expired & created........its a easy way to find the age of domain name.........

Age is factor in SEO but if will be considered only in the well optimized sites..

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Yeah I agree with your answer. Domain name does not matter a lot. Quality work will rock your website in SERPs.

Domain age is most important factor for SEO

There are many attributes that go into what shows up on the first page of the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) and one of those attributes is called Domain Age.

thanks for given information...

it is good for seo that your domain is old.Domain age is important as long as over the period of time it had some kind of content. If you had a domain but didn't have any website there, age will not make much difference. However if for example over the period of several years you had domain with some kind of content, the age will indicate that your site is reliable and it should help you score higher in SERPs.