Comments on: Domain Name Registration Length and Your Google Page Rank

By: Barbara56

Barbara56 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:21:07 +0000

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By: Work At Home Blog

Work At Home Blog — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:28:21 +0000

Hi Suzanne, I've heard of this too from website grader which indicates your site's domain expiry date. But there is no way you can verify this as you can't do nothing and wait to see your PR increase can you. Well even if it does factor in the calculation of PR, the SEO experts claimed ranking in SE is more important than the color of your green bar. Actually I've seen a site which is quite new and less than 2 months old out ranked many older websites with very high PR. Peter Lee Work At Home Blog’s last blog post..4 Bloggers’ Interview:If I Could Start My Blog All Over…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:48:35 +0000

I own around 140+ domains. They are registered anywere from year by year up to the 10 year mark. I can tell NO DIFFERENCE in pr or ranking for keywords in serps. While G may consider registration length a factor I personally feel it is a very very small one. Plenty of the domains I register yearly rank well above others that have a much longer registration length. I rank higher because of relavent backlinks with anchor text and because of well focused content.

This is just my own experience so do you own test or read around more. I feel your time would be better spent getting quality relavent backlinks and good unique content. There is no magic bullet. Just solid hard work

By: LelsGreaseple

LelsGreaseple — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:35:20 +0000

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By: Okan E.

Okan E. — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:40:14 +0000

Hi Suzanne, in these days i have been searching the internet for a while if domain age and registration length affects pagerank and saw your blog. I have an experiment about this topic, my company site is 6 years old and registered year by year, this is my first priority domain to focus on it . Always making some changes to make it more readible and up to date and pagerank “0″. Another one is my customers domain, web site designed by me in 2002. But in first registration i paid for 8 years (2002-2010), designed website and never touch it again until today but it’s page rank “3″. I think same as you “It affects”…

By: Frank C

Frank C — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:31:19 +0000

I've not noticed this have an impact on the PR of a site. I'd guess it's a good marketing ploy for GoDaddy though. Your recent PR boost is probably due to your link building through dofollow comments on blogs, guest posting and other such things related to promoting your blog. All of these are good, solid, ways for your to increase the PR of your site. One of the risks of long term renewals is that you may not get an automatic renewal payment or renewal notice and lose your domain. For example, you buy a domain with your name for a 10 year period. It is likely that you won't have the same credit card number or email address on file with the registrar. If you forget to renew your domain will expire and it will probably be gone or cost you a lot to get it back. Frank C’s last blog post..Dazzle Video Creator Platinum Review

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:44:03 +0000

Great Great info! I knew that the age of a domain played allot into page rank and people pay more for older domain names than new ones but I have no idea that google takes into account how long you register it for. I will regiter my domain for 5 years next time it is up. A 2 point page rank thata allot. Also if someone has their own name as a domain name I dont see why one wouldnt want to register it for 5 yars or more. Its not like your going to change your name anytime soon. Great info. I'd like to use this on my newbiew blog if possible. Someone looking to start a web site should know this info before they register their domain name. Kenny’s last blog post..Community Network Marketing - How To Beat Mlm Failure

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:02:13 +0000

I don’t see why not … they way it was explained to me is that they do indeed read the date … and once you have it at either 5 or 10 (which ever you want) then you still have to renew for at least a year each year to maintain that length. Where are you renewing the domains? I have a code for GoDaddy that will get them at $7.49/year (OYH3) but it’s a little different if you’re transferring the domain to them. I think when I renewed for 5 years it tried to give me a “discount” for multiple years and I had to back that out … so I could apply my coupon code and that worked.

Your site looks great … love the little robot guy! *SmiLes* Suzanne

By: spike@myrtle beach website design

spike@myrtle beach website design — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:57:12 +0000

Hi Suzanne

Do you know if I can renew it ten times, one year at a time, until I’m at 10 year total length?

The reason I ask is, I have a discount code that would save me about $30 per domain (I have over 30 websites I manage) but not if I purchase for more than a year.

I can’t imagine Google cares how it was done, they probably just look at the expiration date on the whois.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response.

Spike

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:44:48 +0000

@ spike ~ Welcome … I am waiting patiently to see if one of my other blogs has a rise in PR (it’s a 1 now) because I put the domain out 5 more years … *fingers crossed* Suzanne