Are .Edu/.Gov backlinks worth more than .com

I believe .EDU/.GOV backlinks are worth more than a .com which is identical in every other respect. What are your oppinions?

 

It doesn't matter much... i feel, all of them are same.

 

They are not worth more, maybe they was a few years ago.

 

What made you infer that they are not worth much these days ?
A clean .edu/.gov 1-way linkback is worth a PR7 as said by many SEO experts.

 

Can we believe those SEO Gurus ??

Only Google has the answer, unfortuantely they refuse to give any such details

 

Matt Cutts did comment on this...

 

I have friend that told me google does love .gov or .org or .edu domain, and that friend earn 4 digit income from adsense, so I believe my friend

 

Many more SEO`s says they are not worth more.
Do you really think that a backlink from any students private .edu page has value like a PR7 ???

 

You should not listen to your friend, I mean, he says that .org is better ? No offence, but he doesnt have a clue.

 

As Cricket noted above, Matt Cutts (aka Google) said there's no special weight for .edu or .gov. Think about it...alot of college students have their homepages hosted on .edu servers, so Google knows that .edu doesn't necessarily mean anything special.

 

Good point !

 

ok, so it doesnt matter if I use .com / .info / .tv etc to create a website ? the results are the same ?

 

This thread is not about that, but yes, in general it should be the same. Use Search for this kind of threads.

 

I think so..

 

Matt cutts comments maybe due to the following.,

Assume that .gov and .edu backlinks are really given high priority by google, and mat cutts says it in his blog
"Yeah We give importance to links from a .gov site and .edu site"

Think of what will happen??., Even without an open statement from Google , people tries to get links from .gov and .edu links (including myself), if google by itself makes an Open statement, It will completely spoil the online environment as everyone will start trying to manipulating these .edu and .gov sites, People with heavy cash will even try to pay for these links.,

So even if its a fact, Matt will NOT make an open statement

So we cant say that Everything matt says on his blog can be considered as a fact.,

This is just my opinion.,

 

So do i, based on the fact it's harder to gain these backlinks, com's, net'ss, org's, info's are ten a penny...

 

Its not harder to get .edu links than lets say .is(iceland) links.

 

Thanks, Cricket. I was about to post that and was looking for the link - this isn't the only time that Cutts states explicitly that there is no .edu or .gov "boost". I can't find the other blog post where he talked about this at the moment.

Addendum: Here are some more.

Addendum 2: But none of those are the post I was looking for. *sigh*

Addendum 3: here it is - one of those annoying videos of his:

 

Exactly what I think and if Matt says their not than it will reduce edu spam

You believe Matt? Matt works for google so he is going to say stuff that will benefit google. Look at how many people goto his blog. He has a wide following. If he says something people follow it. So if he says .edu/.gov are worth no more than Google will recieve less edu spam. Makes sense doesn't it?

And if that isn't good enough Minstrel here IS PROOF:
Aaron Walls article

I am going to believe something a fellow seo, a professional nonetheless says over what somebody a Google says. Why? Would you believe someone you are competing against? In a sense we are all competing against google because we want a spot on the 1st page. Some of us use white hat and others use black hat and google is always trying to keep us down and make everything natural and in so doing will use matt to say .Edu domains are basicly the same worth as .com. Aarons article is enough for me. If you want someone to follow follow him. He has alot of experiance and he is on our side. He is going to provide accurate info so that you buy his e-book.

 

I did mention a clean one-way backlink from an .edu/.gov site. So, I'm not speaking about some links from a student page like : abcd.edu/~john/porn/links.html etc...

Yes, I agree with sarathy... each and every company has to keep something hidden...so is the case with google for their ranking systems.

I dont care who matt cutts is...or what the sh!t he speaks on his blog... I believe in experience and clean, concise and justified facts.

Oh! gimme a break...!