#link age

UPDATE EDIT - Link being an adult is suggested in Age of Imprisonment:

This coincides with my old debunk post below:

In botw, only Zelda is confirmed to be 17, when she’s finally allowed to visit the Spring of Wisdom on her 17th birthday. It’s an assumption Link is the same age, not canon. If he’s able to accompany her, he can be older.

NOTE: wikis can be editted by anyone without evidence. So I won’t be taking the loz wiki saying he’s 17 into consideration as there’s nothing concrete to confirm that.

1) Creating a Champion suggests he could be an adult. This is a book made with the botw dev team. Below are page snippets from pg 107 & 377.

2) Drinking Age: Noble Pursuit

Japan’s drinking age remains at 20. It’s likely Nintendo follows their own country’s law in regards to drinking. Link could be considered an adult unable to drink yet.

3) Link says I’m over 100, not 117.

Also Link is a short king, most likely mistaken to be much younger and not taken seriously by other npcs.

4) Urbosa’s Diary page

This entry doesn’t suggest they’re the exact same age. It can be said for both teens and young adults. Older gen like Urbosa and Daruk (Urbosa was Zelda’s mum’s friend) would say this to anyone younger than them.

Link Age and Domain Age are totally different things.

Domain Age denotes the age from the time when the site was registered (Source: WHOIS information).

Link Age denotes the age from the time the specific page/link was created (Source: Document Inception Date).

So, over time, you can have many new links in an old site.

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Domain age has significant influence in Google Rankings and it is proven. Old sites has been awarded with better ranking since 2005, as Google found that spammers evacuate site quite frequently.

But, many Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs) debate over the positive influence of "Link Age" in SEO. Many debate that Google likes fresh contents in old sites. So, for

Link Age

, this is somewhat inverse relation to positive SEO factors involving age. i.e. the newer the link age, the better the ranking.

Darren McLaughlin, in the Sootle Directory blog, mentioned the Google Patent using Document Inception Date for the freshness of links.

However, there are a great number of SEOs that believe that old links are better than new links. In their view, link age is also important as domain age. Again, it is also evident that Google punishes the pages that have not been updated for long time. However, in the view of these SEOs, the freshness of content in old link has more marketability than new links.