How Long To Register Your Domain
In one of Google’s previous patents they talk about the length of domain name registrations and how it could be used to create a score. In other words Google calculates a portion of your websites search engine score based on how long your domain name is registered for. There is no way to prove that Google did anything more than talk about the use of it, but better safe than sorry. You have to remember that Google works in logical ways and this is definitely a logical idea when you look at it closely.
For instance if a spammer registers a domain for spamming purposes their most likely only going to register it on a month to month basis. They know eventually once the domain is discovered as spam they will have to discard it. So they do not want to spend the money to register it for 10 years or even 1 year.
If you’re a legitimate business that plans on staying around for years to come a $100 investment for 1 year or $1000 for 10 years is not that big of an investment, especially when that website will produce thousands, millions or billions.
All in all when it comes to SEO you want to try and do as many things as you can do right. So, when you register a domain make sure it’s for at least 1 year and if you can, take it out for 10 years.