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The age of a domain name can add significant SEO value to your website. The age of a domain can indicate a certain level of trust and even authority with the search engines. This generally means that search engines will display older websites with established trust and authority, before brand new websites.

The Sandbox
Many speculate weather Google has what is referred to as the “sandbox effect,” which temporarily reduces the PageRank for new domains to prevent manipulation from optimizers; i.e. making it more difficult for new websites to rank well in the search results. Speculators say that the “sandbox effect” could last as long as 12 months.

There is also thought to be a “reverse sandbox effect,” where new websites without any inbound links would get a temporary increase in PageRank, sort of like a “New Release” to help give the new site more attention temporarily.

Buying a Used Domain
If you are thinking of buying a domain that has been around for many years as a way to thwart this so-called “sandbox effect,” you can expect to see a drop in PageRank while Google figures out how the new site compares to the old site for this domain.

If the new website has generally the same content and relevancy, the PageRank should go back to where it was and keep the link juice from all of the existing inbound links.

However, if the new site is NOT the same content (i.e. went from a jewelry site to a real estate site), the PageRank drop may be permanent, and it would be similar to starting with a brand new domain, and hence the “age” of the domain will essentially start over in the eyes of a search engine.

The age of a domain name can add significant SEO value to your website. The age of a domain can indicate a certain level of trust and even authority with the search engines. This generally means that search engines will display older websites with established trust and authority, before brand new websites.

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informative!!!  domain age used to decide how long the content has been actually on the web, how long the site has been in promotion, or even the last time content was updated in the site. the more the age of the domain, the more credit you get for your domain. domain age plays a vital role in page ranking. Google considers it as one of the important factor in ranking. domain age can be check through tools. if you remember the date or registration of your domain then it will help to calculate the domain age. you can also calculate the age of the domain from who is tool. you domain registry date will be displayed while checking it. with the help of that you can determine the age of the domain. i checked my domain age from WhoisXY.com

Informative post!

Thanks for sharing the great insight on domain age.

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Domain age is very important. How old is your domain? Google prefer the old domain more than New domain.According to the Google old domain is more trustworthy than new domain.

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Domain age definitely play a big role in your rankings, I've tested this by letting a site sit for 4 years with very minimal on and off page work done to it. It ranks very well on some really competitive search terms. To elaborate a little more, how much longer your domain is registered for is also looked at, if your domain doesn't expire for another ten years, it's a good indication to Google that you are legit and plan on being around for a while.

Examine closely well the search results and you'll notice that even newly-created domains are ranking well on search results especially on Google. I know many sites which I have been working that are really ranking well and getting tons of traffic even though they are still less than a year old. 

On the other hand, I know sites that have been running for more than a decade but can't even break though the first page for a handful of keywords. They are still stuck on the 2nd pages and up because of un-optimized pages.

So, the assumption that domain age can greatly affect SEO is just flatly a myth. It's not true. If you implement good SEO principles on your site, then it will surely rank higher regardless of its age. 

The only advantage of old domain is that they are first to get the best domain names ahead of their competitors. But other than that, there's really no SEO value in domain age. I hope I'm clear. 

Domain Age Is One of Most important factor in Getting Page Rank for Website Also Takes Away from Sandbox reach . New Indexed Websites if Ranked High may Cause to in Google Sandbox .

Very very important post!

Tanks for the Post. it is really helpful to know about the importance of Domain Age. 

As per my opinion Old Domain name has more importance because search engine trust on this domain.