{"id":206,"date":"2008-05-28T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/domain-ages-will-affect-search-rankings\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:32:00","slug":"domain-ages-will-affect-search-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/domain-ages-will-affect-search-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Ages will affect Search Rankings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The order that pages come out in the results of a search at a search engine may be powered by the number of pages that link to that page and by rankings of the pages that link to that page. When a site is linked to by a popular site, that link might give more value than a link from a site that is less well-liked and trusted.<o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">    <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ages of linking sites<\/span><o:p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><br \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">    <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A new rights application from Microsoft adds an extra twist, by also ranking domains based upon the ages of sites which link to those sites. The cost of purchasing a site has decreased considerably in recent years, and some site registrars have offered free site registrations for trial.<o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">    <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A spammer may take advantage of a bid like that to develop something known as a link farm, which is a spam method in which spammers &#8220;purchase or otherwise get a large number of domains and interlink the sites jointly to increase the site rankings by unnaturally increasing the number of contributing sites for some or all of the sites.&#8221;<o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">    <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">These rights applications think that newer sites have a &#8220;higher possibility of being spam and\/or being a part of a web farm that attempts to falsely inflate domain rankings for domains in the web farm.&#8221;<o:p><br \/><\/o:p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">  <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">By looking at the age of sites that link to those newer domains when determining a rank for a domain, domains which have links from older sites &#8220;may be ranked higher than spam sites and\/or less relevant sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order that pages come out in the results of a search at a search engine may be powered by the number of pages that link to that page and by rankings of the pages that link to that page. When a site is linked to by a popular site, that link might give more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}