Long Term Domain Registration “Secret”

I am growing tired of hearing “the tip” of registering your domain for ten years so you look like a legit business and therefore rewarded by Google. The thinking here is that spammers only register a domain for a year, maybe two. Only real businesses will register a domain for ten years, so do this, and Google will reward you.

Okay, let me see if I follow this line of logic. A Spammer wants to do well in Google, and he or she registers so many domain names that they get the domains for $5.00 or less per year. Are these experts claiming that the spammer will be so stupid and so shallow not to make a simple $50.00 investment to get Google’s approval over a ten year period?

In a day that has been overloaded with “conspiracy theories”, SEO has their fair share as well. According to our testing, it does not make any difference if your site is registered for a year or ten years. Yes, there will be some random sites that will do better, but it has nothing to do with the registration term.

Use your common sense. If Google is going to trust your site as a real business, it would probably want something more than a $50.00 investment over ten years to prove it, wouldn’t it?

I think so too.