How does Google measure a website's age?
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thetraveller
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- Mar 9, 2009
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Age is considered by the registering date, in this case will be the domain whois data.
- Oct 24, 2011
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I'd imagine it's a compilation of several factors, including (but not limited to):
First domain registration
Secondary/Tertiary registration
Date of first upload/post to site
Time elapse between the above 3
I suppose we may never know, but this makes sense in my mind.
First domain registration
Secondary/Tertiary registration
Date of first upload/post to site
Time elapse between the above 3
I suppose we may never know, but this makes sense in my mind.
BackY
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Don't be too sure, how about re-using an old domain with a new website. Which "date" of creation would you take in consideration?
I'm not sure about google, but I've seen other ranking sites use web archive.
For example, I bought a domain that's 17 years old. The first thing I did was put a tag in my htaccess so that the waybackmachine would kill all the old archive versions of my domain. Now my domain shows are 0yrs old on some sites and 17yrs old on others.
For example, I bought a domain that's 17 years old. The first thing I did was put a tag in my htaccess so that the waybackmachine would kill all the old archive versions of my domain. Now my domain shows are 0yrs old on some sites and 17yrs old on others.