It seems to depend a lot on the competitiveness of the keywords you’re targeting. If you’re trying for something like ‘weight loss’ or ‘forex’ it will take you a while to establish a ‘trust rank’ with Google. But, if you’re working long tail terms or lower competition niches you may gain trust and keyword authority much quicker, in weeks rather than months or years.

I fought for a long time to gain any credibility (as most established SEOs did not believe in its existence until later on), but owe a debt of thanks to Aaron D’Souza from Google who, during a meeting at my first SES San Jose conference, confirmed its existence and effect (though he was naturally coy about revealing any particular details). He also indicated that inside Google, it had a different name (though I still don’t know what that was/is).

There’s still some confusion among beginners about the difference between actual sandboxing (where no matter what you do or what your PR, you can’t rank for any competitive terms), and the natural drop-off in the SERPs after initially ranking high due to the Quality Deserves Freshness part of Google’s algorithm that Justin talks about on his SEO tips blog. New sites will land on page 1 after two weeks in existence and the owner thinks it’s a cakewalk to rank on page 1. Then when they get bumped down to #100 as newer content comes up and takes their place, they mistakenly assume they’re sandboxed.

I’ve had my share of problems in the past with the sandbox, and decided that an aged domain strategy was the way to go.

The biggest issue is of course being able to find aged domains that are keyword rich to your niche.

I found this free website that allows you to search multiple keywords at a time for a domain, and then get this. It shows page rank and the age of the domain.

Apparently some of these nearly expired domains have existing page rank.

Actually you can search for all types of aged domains, but I only search the “buy now” domains with a price of $5.

Among my finds so far was a 2 year old domain with a page rank of 4 ! and a 9 year old domain keyword rich. Both were $5.

The website is at http://www.aged-domain-finder.com

There are probably other websites out there offering similar things, but I haven’t found a site that has a comprehensive search capability and then shows automated age and page rank.

Gee I sound like a fan, don’t I

Best,

Mike

Specifically - what is the field that identifies the top commentators? I assume one would have to keep the Name consistent (so, Cheap Anime Games in my case) but is it possible to vary the link, thus also sending links to an interior page?

Thanks