Does domain age matter in SEO?

[Jason]

Google Answers If Domain Age Impacts Rankings

Google's John Mueller answers the question about domain age and any impact on search rankings

www.searchenginejournal.com

Surprisingly, it doesn't. In fact, as the article states, domain age is simply taken into account so an engine can filter out spam, seeing new domains as possible spam, in certain situations. Anyway, myself, I don't see registering a new domain as anything bad, however, of course, it's obvious new domains are not going to rank as quick as ones that are a few years old in an ideal situation.

O.K., what views did you hold about domain age? Did you believe now or in the past that domain age was a good thing? Why did you believe that? Did you buy domains and factor in the domain age as a big thing? Note: it is true that people were paying more for older domains. Were they being deceived?

 

[Empire]

Domain age matters a lot in SEO as Google consider them more reliable than the newer ones. Older domains usually considered well established because spammers register new websites for short term benefits and drop them quickly. However, it's not happening all the time because you can beat them for certain keywords/posts.

 

[Jason]

In my opinion, I don't think domain age is everything, but as @Empire noted, it's a way of judging spam, but a lot of powerhouse domains are not old ones. In fact, they have to show search engines they aren't spam, aside from being old and, in my case, I'd rather go that route. In fact, I've seen newer domains get big in one or two years, considering a lot of development was put into them.