So how old is your websites?

How the age of your and other people’s websites affects your rankings

A new patent application with the name “Ranking Domains Using Domain Maturity” indicates that there is another factor that helps search engines to determine the quality of a web page.

Here’s the abstract of the new patent application:

“Ranking domains for search engines is provided herein. To rank a domain, contributing domains associated with the domain are identified. Additionally, the maturity of each of the contributing domains is determined.

A rank for the domain is then determined based at least in part on the maturity of each of the contributing domains. The domain rankings may then be used to order results for search queries.”

The patent applications indicates that newer domains are more likely to be spam or part of a link system that tries to game search engine algorithms.

Web pages that have links from older domains may be ranked higher than other domains in the search results.