Domain expiration and seo

[bronxpad]

My domain name is free with my service with yahoo but it expires every year and gets extended automatically as I continue service, how does this impact my seo efforts? I've heard that the search engines prefer sites to expire in 3 years or more? Is this a fact?

[SEOLocal92]

That's and interesting question and to be honest i didn't pay attantion to this one before as an SEO factor.

So i did some research and look to me that there is no effect of your SEO plan or your site ranking if your domain renew every year or every 3 years.

Infect i manage more then 3000 domains for myself and my customers , most 1 year and all ranking very high t so  bottom line after research and from personal experiance i don't see any problem or different with one year domain

hope that help

Mike

[MoosaHemani]

Joel, this was a buzz in the bubble that you should register your domain for longer period of time and all that but to be honest research and experiments that i run simply proves me that this is no impact on your rankingss.

I mean if you are doing great on your content and attracting high quality links all ethically there is no way you will get down in SERPs just because your competitor have invest on the domain for 10 years and you did that for a year only.

[MassivePrime]

Same here we've tested this out and it makes no difference at all. If it did in the past I wouldn't know but as of 2010 (which is when we tested this theory) the length of registration didn't make an impact on ranking.

[bronxpad]

Thanks all.

[MarieHaynes]

My thought here is that this is a causation vs correlation issue.  I don't believe that registering a domain for more than a year will have any effect on SEO.

However, if you look at well established websites, they are more likely to have their domain names registered for a longer period of time.  A well established website is more likely to be well managed and to have accumulated worthy backlinks.  As such, the well established site is going to rank better in the SERPS.  But this increase in ranking is not because the domain name is registered for more than a year.

See what I'm saying?