Jul 23
Q and A: Why do older unoptimized sites sometimes rank better than younger optimized ones?
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Hello Kalena…
A question I’ve often been asked and don’t really have a good answer for is; Why - when a site is NOT optimized at all for search engines, but it IS an older site, it’s been around a while - does it rank better than younger sites that HAVE been optimized?
Thank You!
Amy
Dear Amy
In their ranking algorithm, Google takes into account the age of a domain, as well as the history of a domain and the age and quality of links pointing to it. Sites that are new to the Internet take a while to build up “trust rank” and link history in Google. So you’ll sometimes see older, well-established sites that don’t appear to be optimized out-ranking their younger optimized competitors for target keywords.
Make sense?
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