Is nofollow edu links any good?

Hi,
Just wanted to know if anyone here had experience with this

"Is nofollow edu links any good?"

Well some say nofollow is a waste..still site explorer lists it isnt it?
"Edu is edu,its always better" that's what i heared is it true?

 

.edu do not inherently hold any more weight than a link eslewhere.

Nigel

 

They're as good but no better than a nofollowed .org, .com, .net, .biz, .info, ad infinitim. As Nigel said, their is nothing "special" about the way the search engines rank .edu or .gov domains. They don't get preference merely because of their TLD extension.

 

I was always under the impression that websites with .edu had more weight than a .com. Boy, was I wrong.

 

Links recommended by Govt. agencies or educational institutes may have better impact on SEO because it seems more natural as you do not buy these or something like to include it.

 

I don't think so there any beneficial from nofollow .edu links. Its just like other nofollow links

 

because it's hard to find a backlink from those domains, that's why people think it has more weight than other gtlds.

 

Same here! I have always think edu is more anthuoritive than other links!

 

Here is a link of Matt Cutts talking about just that!

http://digg.com/d317L6l

 

Thats a nice piece of information..i always thought that Edu and govs are better..anyways..on the other context..is a nofollow link good in any way?

 

There has been a lot of debate on the topic, but Google has never formally said that they don't have any additional linkjuice. I still believe that .edu and .gov backlinks carry more power based on the authority of the TLDs by default.

 

Sure they have, there is actually a vid about it posted recently. I will dig it up for you.

Edit: Actually, there is a post 2 above your's with the info, here is the vid

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...=ZQHYSsf3EojUqQKxiuzfBQ&q=matt+cutts+edu+link

Nigel

 

Definitely .edu links are worthy. But if it is nofollow, what is the use of having it?

 

I don't realize it, that nofollow link never raise ranking whatever so.

 

edu has no value, bcoz its no follow

 

I think not, It doesn't have good link juice cause it didn't follow by bots similar to other regular links.

 

I see two different questions get asked here on the forum and the answers get confused.

Is .edu (as an extension) more authoritative than other sites?

and

Are edu backlinks more powerful than backlinks from other sites?

There is some truth in the debate of whether edu links hold more weight than others.

The following has be proven mostly true:

.edu as an extension is not inherently more powerful than others

.edu sites are typically more authoritative than others (because .edu's are typically more linked to and less linked out from)

So when it comes down to it, in more cases than not I would rather have a backlink from Harvard University than a typical .com (regardless of the no-follow or not)

 

Any link is good, no matter what tld you could get. All same on google eyes

 

I would like point out one of my post on related with NOFOLLOW tag

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1553611