How is important domain age now?
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Just as topic states, how important do you think domain age is?
Do you think getting old domain for the new website will do any difference? Lets say website A used to sell apples... went out of business after 5 years of business. If I would get that domain and will star selling apples again can I expect some extra boost because of the age?
Cheers
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If you are able to use domains from 10 years ago with even say 10 back links I have seen them to work well in comparison to domains which are registered that day hehe
But if you have a domain which is say 4 years old and it has 200 root domain links from quality sources, good content it will be better.
But it is not just about the age of the domain it is more so about the age the domain has been in the index's.
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Not very important.
You will receive a boost if the old domain has many backlinks with relevant anchor text, but if not, the two sites should be equivalent.
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