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Over the last 2 years, I've watched my business go from the 4th page of results for important searches, to always ranking as #2-4 on page 1. More than anything
by Meekro 8y ago
Over the last 2 years, I've watched my business go from the 4th page of results for important searches, to always ranking as #2-4 on page 1. More than anything else, what made the difference was time. In my experience, Google heavily rewards old backlinks and old websites -- much more than it used to around 2005. Maybe it's an anti-spam technique, since age is a hard thing for black hat SEOs to fake.
- jacques_chester 8y ago> More than anything else, what made the difference was time. Because it's impossible to fake the age of a domain. If you have a long-running site with lots of old links from other long-running sites, it has phenomenal pagerank power. I am aware of this because I have been a volunteer admin and the DNS contact for blogs dating back to circa 2004. My inbox is an absolute river of people sending me offers to write articles, infographics, helpful "corrections" for "broken" links etc etc et bloody c.
- elorant 8y agoWhat about buying an expired domain for a relative site and redirecting it to your existing one?
- walshemj 8y agoGoogle have said they know about change of ownership of domains and don't count links from them. Having said that brands with long running sites still have links to pages from 95 - 97 that are worth redirecting I found one last week :-)
- chrismarlow9 8y agoI know google has said this. But from my testing and experiments it is not true. Can't say anything else.
- Implicated 8y ago> since age is a hard thing for black hat SEOs to fake. You would be surprised.
- tossaccount123 8y agoThere's a reason so many people buy up expired domains, it's common to either start a new site with an aged domain or 301 redirect them to your site for the extra boost
- spurgu 8y agoWhich is not detectable at all...