Your Domain May Be Labeled as SPAM

While doing my normal surf of the net for ideas I came across an interesting article on Problogger about site SEO techniques.  In the article there were 15 different areas that could be focused on for SEO but the one that caught my eye was register your domain for a lengthy time.
Do You Only Register On A Annual Basis?
To be honest since the start of my site I have only registered my domain on an annual basis. I decided that since the information was only brief on Problogger that I would do a little more research into the topic and I found a lengthy article on Seomoz explaining Google’s Patent - Information Retrieval Based on Historical. 
 
After reading the article at Seomoz I have learned that there are a number of factors pertaining to domain registration that Google measures or is attempting to actively measure to make their determination on your sites rank to include: 
     
Google Determination Factors

  • Domain / Registration date / Information
  • Length of renewal (10 years, 5 years, 1 year, etc)
  • Addresses and Names of admin & technical contacts
  • DNS Records, IP Addresses, Hosting
  • Hosting Location & Company
  • Stability of Domain Information data
  • Speed of link gain (watching sites that rise too quickly)

According to the article above they referred to domains with one year registrations as “throwaway” and in most cases are seen as spam domains on the new Google prevention system, since legitimate domains are often paid for several years in advance signifying a site that is in it for long term. 

Considering the facts above I’ve decided and paid today for the renewal of jakeldaily.com for the next 7 years ($64.05 total cost) expiring on 20 Oct 2014.   

August 9, 2007 | posted in Talk, The Net 

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12 Responses to “Your Domain May Be Labeled as SPAM”

  1. Life is Colourful on August 9th, 2007

    I have been thinking of this domain name as I came cross such article few months back, so I had booked a domain name for 2 years, but not more than that.

    By the way, you could have booked this with godaddy, you could have saved 20% with some or the other online coupons.

  2. Jason Neuman on August 9th, 2007

    My domain/hosting is with GoDaddy and $64.05 was the price for 7 years.

  3. Life is Colourful on August 9th, 2007

    This is what I read at GoDaddy right now
    “SPECIAL OFFER! Register new, transfer, or renew .COM domain names for only $6.95* per yr!

    Your discount will be applied in your shopping cart.”

    Moreover, have a CJ.com account, and use your or your friend’s CJ affiliate link and get 20% back on whatever amount is spent at GoDaddy.

  4. Jason Neuman on August 9th, 2007

    Oh well a little late for all of that I’ve already made my purchase prior to publishing this article at the price above so I will just have to miss out on the $12 dollar savings maybe next time I’ll catch it.

  5. Life is Colourful on August 9th, 2007

    Nevermind Jason… on 11 Oct 2014 ;-)

  6. James @ Total Web Review on August 10th, 2007

    Usually as my site makes enough I throw every penny back into the site. As of right now I have about half of my domains paid up for 2 years and as soon as google pays me my first $100 (will be getting something by the middle of next month) I will go ahead and register my main domain for 10 years.

  7. April @ Natural Health Remedies on August 10th, 2007

    With UK registrars you normally only get 2 years. So my co.uk sites will stay that way. One of my sites I registered for 3 years which does well but it’s difficult to say if it’s worthwhile.

  8. Life is Colourful on August 11th, 2007

    By the way, Jason - the Page rank of same domain but two different websites remains same?

    Like PR of your “http://jakeldaily.com” and http://www.jakeldaily.com is same due to same domain name or both PRs are earned with separate backlinks for both websites?

    Many of them might have this question in mind.

    I recently linked http://lifeiscolourful.com/ to a link bid directory and http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/ to a blog… Will it get same PR?

  9. SEO Optimization on August 12th, 2007

    Hello Jason,
    This got me curious

    Length of renewal (10 years, 5 years, 1 year, etc)

    I just wonder how could Google determine the length of the renewal of a domain? Because if my registrar is sharing such informations with Google you can bet i am going to kick their bum for good..

    As far as I know Google (and other search engines too) give importance to OLDER domains, not to the length of the registration or the length of renewal, it makes no sense to me how Google or anyone else except my registrar can know the renewal length of my domain.

    Do a whois on my domain, and tell me the length of renewal i have. It is registered on 18 Jan 2006 and expires 18 Jan 2008, have i used bi-yearly renewal or yearly? (damn i want the rolling eyes icon)

  10. Jason Neuman on August 13th, 2007

    The article link explaining their new patent is in the post above. I read the entire article and that is the understanding I took on it.

    -Besides is it really that much more money for a longer renewal?

  11. SEO Optimization on August 13th, 2007

    I did found the part of the article where they actually say

    Valuable domains, according to Google, “are often paid for several years in advance”, while the throwaway domains “rarely are used for more than a year.”

    Yet tho that makes no sense to me as how Google can know my billing cycle (unless there is some ICANN rule that registrars must share their billing cycle information for each of their clients and domain that is registered).

    I am aware and sure that Google will give value to older domains, if thats what the article on seomoz wanted to say.

  12. Richard on June 5th, 2008

    Thanks for the heads up, didn’t know about the age and renewal of domain thing.

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