> More than anything else, what made the difference was time.
Because it's impossible to fake the age of a domain. If you have a long-running site with lots of old links from other long-running sites, it has phenomenal pagerank power.
I am aware of this because I have been a volunteer admin and the DNS contact for blogs dating back to circa 2004. My inbox is an absolute river of people sending me offers to write articles, infographics, helpful "corrections" for "broken" links etc etc et bloody c.
Because it's impossible to fake the age of a domain. If you have a long-running site with lots of old links from other long-running sites, it has phenomenal pagerank power.
I am aware of this because I have been a volunteer admin and the DNS contact for blogs dating back to circa 2004. My inbox is an absolute river of people sending me offers to write articles, infographics, helpful "corrections" for "broken" links etc etc et bloody c.