Valuable domains, according to Google, “are often paid for several years in advance”, while the throwaway domains “rarely are used for more than a year.”

Yet tho that makes no sense to me as how Google can know my billing cycle (unless there is some ICANN rule that registrars must share their billing cycle information for each of their clients and domain that is registered).

I am aware and sure that Google will give value to older domains, if thats what the article on seomoz wanted to say.

-Besides is it really that much more money for a longer renewal?

Length of renewal (10 years, 5 years, 1 year, etc)

I just wonder how could Google determine the length of the renewal of a domain? Because if my registrar is sharing such informations with Google you can bet i am going to kick their bum for good..

As far as I know Google (and other search engines too) give importance to OLDER domains, not to the length of the registration or the length of renewal, it makes no sense to me how Google or anyone else except my registrar can know the renewal length of my domain.

Do a whois on my domain, and tell me the length of renewal i have. It is registered on 18 Jan 2006 and expires 18 Jan 2008, have i used bi-yearly renewal or yearly? (damn i want the rolling eyes icon)

Like PR of your “http://jakeldaily.com” and http://www.jakeldaily.com is same due to same domain name or both PRs are earned with separate backlinks for both websites?

Many of them might have this question in mind.

I recently linked http://lifeiscolourful.com/ to a link bid directory and http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/ to a blog… Will it get same PR?