The Age of Your Domain Does Not Improve Your Ranking

[David Jackson]

According to Google’s engineer Matt Cutts, the age of your domain name does not affect your Google search engine rankings. You should only worry about your content and the links that point to your domain.

Well, with all due respect to Matt Cutts, I disagree. If you take any topic and look at the top positions on both Google and Yahoo, almost without exception, the sites in the top 10 positions are predominately older sites - at least 3 years old.

Are their exceptions? Yes, there are. But they are generally few and far between. Despite what Matt Cutts says, I believe that the age of a domain does figure into Google's ranking system. I really do.

Anyone agree? Disagree?

David Jackson