Search Engines are never so generous about all the factors that come to play in determining and ranking websites. There had been a lot of research that give us a clue on what the ranking factors are but we have never gotten a comprehensive guide from Google on the specifics. But this a very critial factor for every website owner who is serious about ranking well on serach engne result pages. There had been some agreement on the importance of certain factors like popularity and new contant but there still exist much debate over factors like age of domain name and registration perion. That will be the focus of this post: does age of domain name and the registration period affect website ranking?

What is meant by Age of Domain Name

By age of domain name, we are referring to "how old is the domain name". A domain name that was registered in 2010 would be 6 years old in 2016. So the age of domain name represents the duration or period the domain has been in existence.

What is Registration Period?

This means the period, in years, it will take for the domain to epire. So, if in October 2016, you register a domain for 3 years, it means the domain will epire in October 2019 and the registration period will be 3 years.

The focus of this post is to determine how these two factors affect the ranking of websites

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