Does domain registration affect seo at all?

[PeR930]

What do you think or what have you experienced? Does a domain that is registered for more years into the future perform any better in the SERPs than a domain registered for only one year, all else being equal?

[pinkz]

this is just one of many markers that flags a site as worthy in gewgul's eyes, so reg your money site for as many years into the future as possible.

[brassmonkey]

depends on the name

[TheMonger]

If google does this, what's next, what ISP you use? What part of the country you live in? What town?

Fuck Google. I'm starting to really hate those fuckers.

[myleene]

It indeed does? Why not?

If the company pays several years in advance, it shows they believe in their product.

It has a minor effect, but I like that they do use it in their ranking.

It's great in fact. I don't know why you wouldn't like it.

If:
- Crappy site #1 pays 1 year to die the next
- You pay 4-5 years as you believe in your product

It's just normal that you beat it.

[TheMonger]

Originally Posted by myleene

It indeed does? Why not?

If the company pays several years in advance, it shows they believe in their product.

It has a minor effect, but I like that they do use it in their ranking.

It's great in fact. I don't know why you wouldn't like it.

If:
- Crappy site #1 pays 1 year to die the next
- You pay 4-5 years as you believe in your product

It's just normal that you beat it.

How many years a site is registered has no bearing whatsoever on it's quality or the owners belief in their project.

Most of the time it's done because of budget. This just gives more preference to those individuals/companies with more money available to reg for 10 years.

It's financial discrimination.

Maybe google will start asking for a credit report on you when you submit your site to them and use that in its ranking algorithm. That would weed out a lot of fucktard sites too. Same thing. Your logic is flawed.

[myleene]

See this: http://seo-hacker.com/in-seo-domain-age-matters/

adding a year to a domain name is 10$. Which is two beers. Or drop another domain name and add a year to your best one.

I can't see this as financial discrimination.

SEO is long-term and is pretty logical when you look at it.

[longpig]

That link from seo-hacker is pretty anecdotal, based on a second hand tale of a guy with two domain names. But - it seems pretty logical to me, Google wants to have the most indicators of 'best' sites. and committing to a domain for a good few years seems a reasonable (if minor) indicator.

Plus of all the shit Google do, does it really rank that high on the 'things to get angry about' list?

[TheMonger]

Originally Posted by myleene

See this: http://seo-hacker.com/in-seo-domain-age-matters/

adding a year to a domain name is 10$. Which is two beers. Or drop another domain name and add a year to your best one.

I can't see this as financial discrimination.

SEO is long-term and is pretty logical when you look at it.

$10 turns into a lot of cash when you have multiple domain names.

Although it's all relative to your financial situation, to me this makes the most sense if you own one or two maybe 3 sites. Sure reg them for 10 years....if you have the money.