Comments on: Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?

By: Klaus Hanemann

Klaus Hanemann — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:29:40 +0000

Short and to the basics – liked that :)

By: Klaus Hanemann

Klaus Hanemann — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:29:40 +0000

Short and to the basics – liked that :)

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:03:00 +0000

while age is a means to help spam, it really isn’t the greatest indicator of what page should rank better. Hopefully, in the near future google will search engines will be able to develop more effective ways of ranking sites.

The age factor of domains and links seems to limit the ability of creative and useful new pages to shine through in the search engines and also gives alot of control to old money type websites.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:26:23 +0000

I agree, the age factor cannot be ignored–great insight! That is one of the reasons I believe social media cannot replace SEO. With link age, Google has a way of truly gauging a website’s popularity over a longer period of time (unlike a news flash, which might be worthy for a day or so). With social media it’s impossible to do that.

By: Timewarp

Timewarp — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:42 +0000

Good post, yahoo also seems to really like aged back links. I would say they are more important then an aged domain that doesn’t have backlinks.

By: Dakshin

Dakshin — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:46:41 +0000

Yes, I believe in the age of the link, it is similar that google considers the domain age and expire date.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:19:51 +0000

In my own experience, I have noticed that gaining backlinks from PR4-8 and using anchor text, even on unrelated sites, will dramatically boost your ranking. They have been maintaining for awhile now, but again, this is for local search terms/less competitive search terms.

By: James Mann

James Mann — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:16:26 +0000

Something that has always puzzled me about SEO, is what defines the amount of keywords you can use on any one page? how much is considered spamming? and how does Google know when someone is placing text, the same colour as the background?

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:59:16 +0000

Nice recap of what is (and isn’t) known on this topic.

By: Betamale

Betamale — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:08:10 +0000

So to that comment above by Nina,

are you saying that link age is more important than link freshness? I always see both being discussed on SEO blogs but is there a definitive answer?