Is the time left before your domain registration expires an SEO factor?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
Is the time left before your domain registration expires a SEO factor? I was told that this is and domains with less than 1yr. left seen as spam. But if this is correct, how does Google manages auto renewal of domains, they get renewed on expiration day. Erwin, Amsterdam
How much does a domain’s age affect its ranking?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
“How much weight does the number of years a domain is registered for have on your ranking?”
How does Google determine domain age, and is it important for ranking?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
How does Google determine domain age? Do they look at the whois data or do they rely on the crawler? e.g. When it first indexed the website. In general, how important is it for website authority? Thanks! Maarten, Belgium
What’s your take on “addon domains”?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
What’s your take on “addon domains?” Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they’re self-hosting)? e.g. If you saw 2, 5, or 10 websites all coming from the same IP address, would that be bad? Land Lubber, Colorado
Will domain registration changes ding me in Google?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
“When you move a domain from one registrar to another or your registrant information changes very slightly (e.g. new phone number), will Google ding you for instability at the registrar?”
Is redirecting a large number of domains suspicious?
DOMAIN QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
When permanently redirecting (301) a large number of domains (read: more than 10) to 1 domain does Google flag this as suspicious? What considerations does Google look at? For the purposes of this question let’s assume this is a consolidation move.
Google’s Matt Cutts explains the Canonical Link Element to help with duplicate content.
Matt Cutts of Google introduces the canonical link element.
Resources:
Blog post on Google webmaster blog:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
Yahoo blog post:
http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fighting-duplication-adding-more-arrows-to-your-quiver/
Google Help Center documentation:
http://google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
Do links to non-canonical URLs pass any value to the canonical version?
QUESTION TO GOOGLE:
Stav Zilbershtein from Israel asks: “Hi Matt, what if there are external links to a URL that is not the canonical one? Does the power of links passes on to the original URL or does links pointing to a non orinigal URL gets lost when using canonical tag on a website?”
