AndyA - 8:39 pm on Jan 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm sure domain age is a factor, I'm just not sure it ranks high enough to be much help. I have a site in Google's index since 2000, domain was never used before (unique name), and has always had an active site on it. The domain name expires in 2011 or 2012, yet my Google traffic is almost nonexistent.

So, while domain age may be a factor, it would seem almost anything could override it, because this site is white hat.