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The age of your domain impacts how well you rank in the SERPs is an SEO myth. John Mueller and Matt Cutts have said the below:
• Domain Age is not a ranking factor.
• New domains may be dampened for a few months to help fight spam.
• Old domains may positively correlate to better rankings due to other factors.
Source(s): John Mueller (April 12, 2017), Matt Cutts (Oct 26, 2016), John Mueller (Jan. 15, 2016).
Moz crawls and indexes billions of pages, adding fresh link data every day. This does not mean that PA will change every day. It will only change if they find new links to a respective site.
Here are a few facts about Domain Authority:
You cannot increase your DA without improving your websites SEO. Make sure your website is optimised. Your main focus should be on your content. You need to publish great content and then earn high quality links to your site. If you do this your DA should increase over time.
Google has said that they index & rank content in Accordions and tabs fully. They have also said when on mobile, content hidden in accordions, tabs, etc for user experience purposes will be given full weight and not demoted like it was in the past.
I would generally recommend buying the .co.uk if your business is targeting a UK customer base whereas if you are intending to trade overseas and don't want to be considered as primarily a UK company I would suggest that you pick .com.
After 512 pixels, Google will truncate your URL in search results pages. A good rule of thumb is to keep your URLs as short as you can, without losing their general meaning.
You can use Siteliner to check for duplicate content. Siteliner systematically checks your site for internal duplicate content, highlighting it on each page, intelligently excluding common content such as menus and navigation.
Google might not be seeing the "noindex" tag because it has not crawled it recently. Make sure you check the latest cache date and check if you can see the noindex tag in the cached version. It is very important to make sure you are not blocking the URLs in robots.txt as if you do Google will not see the noindex tag if it cannot get past the block in robots.txt.
I recommend that you optimise your title tags and use unique meta descriptions for each product page. Also use descriptive headers and add alt tags to your images on each product page. Make sure that you have a good internal link structure with descriptive anchor text and add related products to each product page so relevant products are linking to each other.
If you are reviving an old website make sure it is mobile friendly. Then you will need to refresh the content and update page titles and meta descriptions. Also make sure you add new content regularly.
I always include the site name in the title. It will also help from a brand search perspective for people to click through to your page.