Do you think age plays a factor in the success of a website?

I am currently doing a study on the factor age plays on a blog/website.
I have read different opinions, and I am looking for the most opinions that I can get. Please participate in this survey.
Would you rather read about a kid who does SEO, or would you rather read about a 43 year old guy doing SEO?
What about if the kid does so good seo that he is number 1 for a specific keyword even though that in his last 13 articles he hasn't talked about that specific keyword AT ALL.

Will we be writing in the future about lying about your age to do better SEO?

It is not so much the age of the website but the age of the links to the website that matters. An old website that has no links is at no real advantage over a new website with no links.

One question...Does the Link needs to be relevant and the website with High PR? I mean what are the criterieas related to the "age of the links"?

Um people, please note that the question appears to be about the age of the webmaster/SEO, not about the age of the website.

No, I don't think age is very important. Quality unique content and quality links are important

Very strange question, but I would go with the saying "if you are good enough, you are old enough"

The age of the SEO should be irrelevant it's their experience, knowledge and skill, that is all that matters.

Haha no guys, I don't mean the age of the website I mean the age of the PERSON who writes the website lol.

I personally would prefer to read about people closer to my age, instead of people closer to my students' age, LOL!

Faith

lol... Well picked.. Must read more tha the titles. In answer two OP question. NO! But references matter a real lot. You need a portfolio to convince others to part with their money.

Intersting question. IMO A website with a few older links probably has an advantage over a website that has no links even if the links are not relevant. How big this adavantage is though is questionable ie I would guess one or two relevant links from to the new website could soon outweigh the advantage of the non relevant links. I s'pose it is possible the age of the links themselves may in someway make the links in someway relevant in SE eyes (This all assumes the links are on pages in tyhe index). The PR of itself does not matter but having PR is an indicator of a) The page is in googles index b) the amount of LJ the site has to transfer. Therefore with no other information being offered I would guess an older higher PR irrelevant link would be better than an older lower PR irrelevant link. ....

Thanks for the reply gazzahk. This forum is a Sweetheart

age also shows authority, so I think its yes.

I think there is no problem with the age, as long as you can do your job right.

not really. as long as it's relevant and i can learn from it.

Source:
http://forums.seochat.com/google-op...age-184153.html

I have conducted a study to determine the average age of domains that are occupying the Top 10 Positions in GOogle for competitive keyphrases. I have taken a sample of 60 domains using randomly chosen competitive keywords. Here are the results:

a. Average age of domains in Google Top 10: 7.55 years old
b. Statistical lower limit of this distribution: around 4 years


This says that old domains occupied a higher percentage in GOogle Top 10. Out of 60 sampled domains, this results shows preference of Google to older domains.

I agree with Gazzahk, it is not the age that matters but this domains should have solid amount and old backlinks pointing to it which is very important to Google. The older the links, the more trusted are the citations.