" Domain must be older than three years old " , >>>> for sites registered for five years or more, Google considers them serious

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Domain Names - The Good and The Bad
By: Mark Nenadic
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Mark Nenadic Mark is the director and face behind FifteenDegrees-North,
where you will find articles and resources to help with SEO, marketing and Web design.
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Working on improving your rank within the different search engines
- especially Google
- can feel like a very complicated puzzle sometimes.
This maze can be extremely time consuming;
especially
when you just complete one effort and
then find out that they've once again changed the rules on you
- rules that you weren't even sure of to begin with!
It is very well known that
when you try to better the rank you've achieved with search engines,
the best techniques that you can use are:
[-] Acquiring quality inbound links
[-] Acquiring any links to your site at all, including reciprocal links
[-] Continually adding new, relevant, and fresh information to your site
[-] Using a good density and placement of the right keywords
[-] Creating a website that is interesting and relevant enough that visitors who arrive spend time there.
However, what is not so well known is a major point that is missing from this list.
Domain names are beginning to become extremely important with Google.
It isn't the domain name itself
- that is, the words in the domain
- nor how long it is,
but
how long you've had it.
Google is now valuing sites that have been registered for longer,
and that prove [[out]]
their intention to stick around for a long time.
[[[[[[[[[ 'the edittor notes : :::::
4[for] example ,
please let us take in here a shameless plug in ;--^), our
4el.com
http://www.whois-search.com/whois/4el.com
>>>> Creation date:
>>>> 07 Feb 2000
4el.com's been registerred n[and] seriously renewed so many years
primarily 4[for] reselling purpose ,
4el.com's currently just only in parking , with-out its own content ,
n[and]
not earning us much $$ ,
but ,
v[we] have been determined2keep on renewing it yearly until its sold-out ,
bcause[because] : :::::
if ....
4el.com the domain itself 's not seriously
good +
good enough
2b[to-be] able
2b[to-be] resold out to
an enough # of end-users ,
then ....
how could v[we] dare2renew it so many years until its sold-out
w/ our own $$$$
?????????
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[[[[[[[[[ 'the edittor notes again : :::::
1 more VIP standing by 'the[=that] Google's rule : : : : : :
: : : : : :
DoMainTools's DoMainRoundTable's
DoMain auction's
DoMain submission's rules o'[of] admission : : : :
: : : :
http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/07/domain-roundtable-auction-process/
>>>> Domain must
>>>> be older than three years
>>>> old.
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>>>> UPDATE BY JAY:
[[
My Dear Sir Jay's the CEO of DoMainTools
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>>>> The reason for the ban on domains younger then three years is
>>>> that I have analyzed domain sales and know
>>>> that
>>>> Vintage
>>>> 2005,
>>>> 2006 and
>>>> 2007 names sell for
>>>> far less then 1991-2004 names.
>>>> In the last auction only three domains were older then 2004
>>>> and they all fetched lower then $10,000.
>>>> This auction will be for some ultra good generics
>>>> and I want to encourage people not to submit new names.
>>>> Let those new names grow some mold
>>>> before we auction them off.
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Google is starting to give lower priority to sites
that have been registered for a year or less,
since
they may simply be spammers
who are looking for a fast dollar and then disappear.
On the other hand,
for sites registered for five years or more,
Google considers them serious websites or businesses
that intend to exist for a good long while.
Therefore,
one of the strategies important to gaining a strong ranking is to pay a little bit more money for your domain name registration to register for a few extra years,
so that
Google can tell that you intend to stick around for a long time.
This will give your site Google value and your ranking will go up.
The problem that many webmasters are finding with this is that they either don't have the budget for the additional years of registration, or they don't want to register a site for a long time when they haven't proven to themselves that the venture will be successful. They don't want to pay for an additional four or more years of registration for a project that may not get off the ground.The decision that therefore needs to be made is how important Google ranking will be to your website. Will it be the primary part of your internet marketing effort? Will you be concentrating a good deal of your time gathering reciprocal and one-way links? Will you be working hard on search engine optimizing (SEO), possibly
hiring a professional, so that
your site contains
the right keywords
the right number of times and in
the right places?
If you'll already be putting a lot of time, effort, and possibly money into your Google and search engine ranking, then you may find that registering your site's domain name is really a minor investment to get you started in the right direction.It's all a matter of balance, and making sure that you do the search engine optimizing strategy completely, and not cheap out before you can even give yourself the chance to truly shine. In fact, simply shelling out a little bit more to reserve your domain name may be the easiest part of your search engine optimizing strategy. As long as you do your homework in advance and find an affordable, or even cheap domain name registry business, then you likely won't have to pay much more than fifty dollars to get going. As you can see, if search engine optimizing is important to your website, it's vital that you don't miss the most commonly overlooked part of SEO and reserve your website for a good length of time, to
prove to Google that
you're serious about building a quality, successful web presence.
You'll show that
you indeed deserve to be among the top ranking websites out there.
With that done, you'll be ready to move to the next step of your SEO and watch the traffic start rolling in.

Article Source:
http://www.articlecat.com/

Mark Nenadic Mark is the director and face behind FifteenDegrees-North,
where you will find articles and resources to help with SEO, marketing and Web design.

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A case study by a legacy seo-master 4Y[for-why] Vintage domains , doMain like thy wives , older gooder ,;--^),

[[[[[[[[[ 'the edittor notes : :::::
sorry for quoting in almost all contents o'[of]
http://www.domainsfortraffic.com/infocenter.html
because : :
this dissertationnal
thesis-d1[d'one/done]-by-a-veteran-SEOmaster-the-fantomaster
is extremly extremely fully insightsful ,
vr2[we-are-to] refer to the principles composed below
as the referrence for our own sites's
seo+genericDomain synergy strategy
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http://www.domainsfortraffic.com/infocenter.html

Domains For Traffic

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List of Contents

Why Vintage Domains?
How Do You Do It?
Why Categorize?
Leveraging Vintage Domains – Case Study: PoetryPortal

Why Vintage Domains?

What you should know when deciding on where and what to buy in terms of domains is
the fact that
established domains can wield considerably more clout in terms of search engine rankings than pristine entities.

Of course, as a rule, a domain's most important feature is the name itself. However, beyond mere naming some additional critical – but often overlooked – factors come into play.
Choosing vintage domains for your web properties rather than registering them from scratch
can dramatically increase your marketing clout because they will aid you in:
* building customer trust and confidence;
* capitalizing on existing incoming links;
* boosting your search engine rankings.

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How Do You Do It? The reason we can do it this way
– and at such incredibly low fees
– is simple:
We're not domainers and don't want to be!
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have u the domainsForTraffic thought that
its[it's] easy2become a successful domainer ????
sorry ,
if u'rnt[you-are-not] hardworking enough @ domaining ,
then more-often-than-not u'd [you-would] rather become
the SUCcessful domainer ;--^)),
sorry ,
all just4joke , n'one[none] humiliation intended ,
thanking for your understanding
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Why Categorize?

These days,
search engine optimization isn't merely about stuffing plenty of keywords and synonyms onto your web pages.
Information retrieval technology (IRT) and Computational Linguistics (CL) have come a long way
in determining any given text's content
even without significant keyword densities to inform the process.

Some cues in point are Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), Theme Vector Analysis and diverse spam detection patents registered by Google, Yahoo! and MSN staff, etc.
– technologies and algorithms we cannot cover here in any depth.

To cut a long story short:
The more focused your web sites are,
The better in terms of achievable search engine rankings.
Of course, in actual reality, it's a whole lot more complicated than that,
but as an overall rule of thumb you'll be well advised to
keep a very tight ship regarding what you're featuring on whichever sites of yours.

E.g.
if you're promoting both Caribbean cruise discounts and sports memorabilia,
be sure to keep them on separately focused web sites
– and take care to assign the appropriate domain names to each.
Whether this is actually better for your marketing in itself may be subject to debate,
but it's certainly a lot more powerful in regards to search engine positioning.

To this day,
having relevant keywords in your domain names
can help you
get your sites indexed and ranked faster and better.
No, it's no magic bullet for all your ranking aspirations
– but
it certainly can considerably help the search engines
in determining what your site is about in the first place.
And obviously, anything that helps the search engines will be yours to leverage!

So in an ideal world you'll
1) purchase a relevant domain with a
2) vintage status and
3) build an equally relevant web site on it
with lots of good, unique and targeted content to achieve best results.

And while we cannot do the latter for you, we can indeed help you cover factors #1 and #2 in this equation!

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Leveraging Vintage Domains – Case Study: Poetry Portal

Date of report: 2005-05-14

Website: PoetryPortal.net

Domain registered on: 2005-05-03

Proxied: Yes

Recommended for:
Blog + Books + Education + Entertainment + Fantasy + Generic + Lexical + Social + Vintage

Pre-launch policy:
Following registration, domain was kept live with a generic
“Welcome to poetryportal.net” index page sans outgoing or internal links, navigation, etc.
No further content was deployed before final launch.

Website launch:
The website proper was launched as a Wordpress blog on 2007-05-02.
Average number of postings was appr. 10 per day.

Link building: Link building commenced on 2007-05-08 as follows –

2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 3 site
2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 2 site
2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-08 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-09 – 1 link from PR 1 site
2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 5 site
2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-10 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-11 – 1 link from PR 3 site
2007-05-11 – 1 link from PR 5 site
2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 4 site
2007-05-12 – 1 link from PR 5 site

In aggregate:
PR5: 4 link(s) (28.57%)
PR4: 7 link(s) (50.00%)
PR3: 2 link(s) (14.29%)
PR2: 1 link(s) (7.14%)

Link building was temporarily suspended from 2007-05-13.

Note:
These were dynamic links placed entirely on weblogs.
I.e. they did not stay in static mode on the respective blogs' index pages but were pushed down and off onto the next archive page as fresh postings by other parties were consecutively uploaded.

This implies that the links alone cannot be held responsible for the ranking results listed below
as
[[[[[[[[[because]]]]]]]]]
their respective PR bleeding value
a) was shared by 9 other, competing links per index page, and
b) was in effect only temporarily until the posting including the link had been pushed into the archive.

PageRank™ (index page): PR 0 per 2007-05-14

Rankings per: 2007-05-14
(all search terms/keywords without quotes)

Days since launch: 12

Google
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal
– pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,160,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal
– pos. #5 out of appr. 1,530,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: cash poetry contest
– pos. #9 out of appr. 1,090,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest
– pos. #1 + #2 out of appr. 1,150,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry contest
– pos. #1 out of appr. 1,080,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry
– pos. #26 out of appr. 11,200,000.
See screenshot here.

Note:
At the time of this analysis, Google had indexed a total of only 22 pages (out of 133) of the website.

Yahoo!
Search phrase + ranking: contemporary poetry portal
– pos. #7 out of appr. 556,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: poetry portal
– pos. #37 out of appr. 4,500,000.
See screenshot here.

Search phrase + ranking: hard cash poetry contest
– pos. #12 out of appr. 714,000.
See screenshot here.

Note:
Seeing that Yahoo! had only indexed 4 pages (out of 133) of this website at the time of this checkup, the above results can positively be rated “good/above average”.

Conclusion:
The above results seem to confirm
the commonly held view in the SEO community that,
all other factors being equal,
vintage domains indeed enjoy a significant advantage
in terms of pushing rankings.
At time of writing there is no “sandbox effect” whatever discernible.

While the documented search phrases cannot be rated as “extremely competitive” by today's standards,
their actual degree of competitetiveness is far from trivial either.
Moreover,
the sheer speed (less than two weeks!)
with which these results were achieved is quite dramatic.

This clearly demonstrates
the value of opting for our traffic pulling vintage domains
to leverage all your search marketing efforts!

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the fantomaster 's been being the SEO profesion depuis 199x ,
sorry cant recall 'the ex-act date , ThANKye
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