Length of Registration
Does it really matter how long you have a site? 1 year vs 5+ years for example. Google has their patent application put in (United States Patent Application 20050071741) from back in March '05 that mentioned using the length of registration/existance(?) time to help fight spam. Most portal pages have a short shelf life and most are only registered on a year to year basis.
How should that affect the public in general? Lets say you are starting out as perhaps a freelance web designer. You pick out a catchy domain and put up a really cool web site. Should you be punished if you only register a domain for 1 year?
*Thinks that the domain registration companies had some lobbying done on this*
My personal site has been up since around 2000. It is fairly established and just in the normal course of usage has gotten itself ranked and linked to over the years. I haven't put a lot of work into any kind of optimization because I have been working on too many other peoples sites. How would I feel if I had to start from scratch and face this?
Frankly, there hasn't seemed to be a lot of impact with this actually coming into play. I could have a site up and indexed in just a couple days if I really wanted to. The length of registration factor looks and acts like such a miniscule part of the ranking algorithms that I wouldn't worry about it if you have a ligitimate web site. Just do good optimization and publishing techniques to get those quality link backs.
How should that affect the public in general? Lets say you are starting out as perhaps a freelance web designer. You pick out a catchy domain and put up a really cool web site. Should you be punished if you only register a domain for 1 year?
*Thinks that the domain registration companies had some lobbying done on this*
My personal site has been up since around 2000. It is fairly established and just in the normal course of usage has gotten itself ranked and linked to over the years. I haven't put a lot of work into any kind of optimization because I have been working on too many other peoples sites. How would I feel if I had to start from scratch and face this?
Frankly, there hasn't seemed to be a lot of impact with this actually coming into play. I could have a site up and indexed in just a couple days if I really wanted to. The length of registration factor looks and acts like such a miniscule part of the ranking algorithms that I wouldn't worry about it if you have a ligitimate web site. Just do good optimization and publishing techniques to get those quality link backs.
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