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Domain age on the SEO World Cup
By GraphiteX | June 12, 2008
The first of day of this month, June, marked the start of the Busby SEO Challenge wherein there are users who registered earlier and later than the said date. However, let’s go discuss some clarifications on the contest’s rules.
The rules stated issues about the use of domains: The competition is only open to domain and sub domain names that do not include the key phrase in any form. So, how about their age? I wonder. I visited their forum, to ensure that I can still cope-up with their discussions and updates on the board about the contest.
Now, what do we have here? I’m in luck! Someone already opened a topic about it already, so there would be no more waiting time again (which I do hate sometimes). Hmmmmm… Furthermore, BenjArriola raised up the query during the launch of the contest proper. And according to Brycec, the Forum Admin and contest organizer. We can use any domain names of any age which doesn’t contain any of the contest keywords whether it may be a subdomain or domain name. Hmmmmm, I wonder… Here’s a blockquoted statement on what he replied to one of the threads at the community forum:
The reasons we have allowed “any domain age” is this:
1) It allows anyone to enter. Some contestants may not have the money to purchase a brand new domain just for the purposes of a competition.
2) No one knew what the keyword is going to be - so all contestants would still need to start generating new content and correct backlinks in order to win.
3) If we did allow “only new domains” - then experienced campaigners will still make good use of old domains by placing links that point direct to there new website.
I hope this clarifies some of your queries.
Bryce
I hope that clarifies one of the contest rules on the on-going SEO contest. 
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June 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
thx so much.
i’m interesting about domain age for search engine algorithm