Dropped domain question
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I'd way rather have a 10 year old dropped domain that a brand new one!
Age is a factor when it comes to ranking. Not a deal breaker but all things being the same the site with age will out rank the 6 month old..
Age is a factor when it comes to ranking. Not a deal breaker but all things being the same the site with age will out rank the 6 month old..
Only if you can be sure it isn't used to spam E-mail, have been tied to servers that foster child porn, etc.
I've bought some nice aged domains that turned out good, and I've bought some that looked clean and never got indexed or worse - killed off an IP with other sites on them that hurt their rankings.
You never know. So do your homework as best you can, and if the domain has the perfect name for an endeavor you're going to be launching in 2+ months (so it can sit or be used on an autoblog to help get good content going to make sure it will index) then buy it.
Otherwise, you're almost always better off just buying a new domain.
I think there's a difference between site age and domain age. If there's no pages indexed or backlinks built, the site age is as good as new. Dropped domains tend to have issues with pr drops as well.
You guys don't have enough to do! Yes there are 1000 factors to take into consideration. His question was does a 10 year old domain have any value over a new one. The answer is Yes Age is Good, Better than New. Period.
"Barring any of the 11 million other possible factors"
"Barring any of the 11 million other possible factors"
^ Thanks. That was my question. If you can get a 10 yo domain, never used for the same price as a brand new one.....
a 10 year old domain has no age value after deletion. Its age is now zero or new reg.
In addition you said it wasn't indexed either so probably that isn't going to help as one element of age is when it first discovered by google (a link, construction page anything for example) when calculating age. There is some videos on youtube under the Google webmaster channel that talk about domain age and what I have mentioned.
Considering that I would go with a new reg.
In addition you said it wasn't indexed either so probably that isn't going to help as one element of age is when it first discovered by google (a link, construction page anything for example) when calculating age. There is some videos on youtube under the Google webmaster channel that talk about domain age and what I have mentioned.
Considering that I would go with a new reg.
I was about to buy a high pr dropped domain, glad that I visited this thread before dropping the money on it