How to determine the age of a site.

age of a site

[bigace]

There has been a bit of talk about how the age of a site effects the SERPS. How is the age calculated. I ask this question because one of my sites has had two URL changes, although the site remained the same.

1. Original URL Feb. 2000
2. Second URL May 2001
3. Third and present URL April 2003

If SEs assign any value to the age of a site in their scoring algos, would the site be considered 5 years, 4 years or 2 years old?

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Since Google indexes URL's as opposed to websites I would think that your site will be considered to be 2 years old.

[bigace]

If you are correct then this site would be evidence that the age of a site has little to do with the scoring. This site is #1 for many KWs and every other site in the top ten is older than 2years old. Not a very large sample but non-the-less, worth noting.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

There are very many factors involved in ranking sites. I doubt whether the age of the site would make that much difference so there would be no reason why a two year old site should not outrank a 10 year old site.

(Unless of course the site is fairly new and in the sandbox.)

[annej]

Seems like we talked about this before and considered that the only advantage for older sites is they've had more time to gather links.

I'd be intersted if there is evidence that it's something more.

[MHes]

>the only advantage for older sites is they've had more time to gather links.

And for those links to mature. I reckon new links do not pass on full pr until they have been around for a while. This is an ingredient of sandbox, which applies to all sites, young or old. The other factor is getting the right type of links... on theme and 'natural' which takes a long time.