Content age matter?

I keep seeing people say things like “my article ranks good and it’s only a few months old”.
so, from people with experience in this, does content age actually matter? People act like articles can take 8 months to a year to see their full potential with rankings. I’m curious how true that actually is.

If your site is new then it takes few months to start ranking. If you got already good aged site with domain authority then your pages rank fast.

IamKing said:

If your site is new then it takes few months to start ranking. If you got already good aged site with domain authority then your pages rank fast.

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In the since of what I am talking about though, some guys, like income school and the like, will claim that even with older websites, content will rank and index a lot faster, but each new piece of content takes months to slowly reach its maximum position in rankings.

I see several people saying it’s true and several saying it’s not. People saying stuff like “my article ranks number 10 and it’s only 4 months old. I expect it to rise overtime”. Stuff like that. Just questioning how true that actually is or if it’s some made up concept to make people feel better about articles not ranking top 3 lol.

In my experience yes, maybe not 9 months but a few definitely. There are many other factors though like competition (sometimes articles with no competition rank as soon as they are indexed, for more competitive keywords it takes about 2-3 months) and the authority of the website.

The things that matter most are domain age and authority. Content age does not matter much.

Domain Age and properly optimized content matter

Someone just posted a thread a couple of days ago, saying they wrote a 3k article, and it ranked position 3 in 7 or so days, but yes, they had an already established site.

Site age is important not the content. If your site gains authority in years, then new content from your site will rank in a day.

popbradley said:

I keep seeing people say things like “my article ranks good and it’s only a few months old”.
so, from people with experience in this, does content age actually matter? People act like articles can take 8 months to a year to see their full potential with rankings. I’m curious how true that actually is.

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In my opinion, the content age doesn't matter. But the age of the site and the quality of the content and backlinks matter.

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No, it does not a big deal.. high-quality content will be rank fastly.. but domain age is more important than content age.. this is the way to get ascertain a level of potential quality for a quick result.

Google Update hit trends about quality contents on ranking algorithm, not its age.
You can update your site contents, let Google to crawl your site more frequently without needing to publish more often.
More the Google crawl the site, the more likely your most recent information will show up in search results after publishing, which tend you an advantage in your search engine results rankings.

VampireDamon said:

In my opinion, the content age doesn't matter. But the age of the site and the quality of the content and backlinks matter.

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This. Sometimes you'll see age of content associated with ranking effectiveness due to one simple fact: it has had more time to earn backlinks, that's it.

yes for some reason age matters because this will look your account more trusted because you already established a good and stable quality of accounts..

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It depends on your site authority

I remember a few years ago someone told me that everything matters. It's probably true, just like in life, it all counts.

Of course it matters. I have an article of 200 words beating long articles from today just because mine is 10 years old.

When it comes to SEO, you have to walk away from pairing variables.

What I mean by that is a lot of people read too much into a variable and assume that it automatically means higher rankings, more traffic, and all that good stuff.

This is not necessarily true.

You have to understand that age, when it comes to SEO, is supposed to be a stand-in for authority.

The idea is the longer a website is up and the longer its content has been around, the more opportunity it has had to build authority.

Now, you know, and I know that is usually not true.

There are people who just publish junk content and leave it at that.

They don't promote. They don't build a brand. They don't work on creating some sort of organic community around their content.

They don't do anything!

And it’s no surprise that a lot of the internet is filled with such blogs, and they don't go anywhere.

So even though they've been around for a long time—the content has been around for a long time—it hasn’t really built much authority.

So don't just focus on content age. There are many other factors.

One factor is the level of competition in the niche.

The second factor is how well your content answers the search intent of the keywords you're targeting.

The third factor is your efforts at building an organic community around your content.

There are just so many things going on.

Content age or domain age, they're supposed to be stand-ins for authority, but you really can't automatically assume that.