Hi can anybody plz tell me the importance of .edu or .gov forum link for link building means if i can get link from .edu or .gov site is it good.....so plz tell me the .gov or .edu forum sites.... Thnx in advance..
No more important than any other quality link. Google's Matt Cutts has addressed this issue. Something to consider about .gov and .edu (especially .edu). These sites are subject to change a lot. University Sites will purge student pages at the end of the year and the Government is constantly changing. Sure all sites are changing but it seems to happen most with .edu.
I agree w/ internetmarketingiq. Getting a link from some student page on an .edu site is practically worthless. Getting a link from the home page of some local tech school or trade school is no different than an equivalent .com. The only way .edu and .gov sites might provide an extra boost to your rankings is if you get a link on the main part of an older, established .edu or .gov site. Getting a link on the home page or 2nd/3rd level page on a older, established major university .edu site or a major .gov site like www.hud.gov can be advantageous in that these domains typically are very old and carry with them a LOT of domain trust. Having links from highly trusted domains like these will boost your site's domain trust which can affect the rankings of all of the pages on your site slightly. But you would likely need lots of links from highly trusted domains for your domain trust factor to even make a noticable difference. I'm not so sure it's ever been 100% confirmed that domain trust IS a ranking factor at Google, but I know that trusted domains can get a way with a LOT more than untrusted domains as far as playing in the "gray areas" of SEO. In otherwords, they are less likely to be penalized for certain things than mom-and-pop sites. So other than domain trust, I would agree that they are the same. BTW, these types of links from the main portion of highly trusted .edu and .gov sites are VERY rare and difficult to get. It's not likely that the average webmaster could ever convince Harvard or Cornell or HUD to toss them a link.
If you can get a "permenant" link from .edu site great. Do it. But most .gov sites are converting to the NoFollow links to stop any under-the-table concept or pay-off. I wonder what a home page link form http ://www.barackobama.com/ would run???
Asking the wrong question, but it comes up a lot. The value of a backlink is determined solely by its Page Rank and of course anchor text (to rank for that term). A .com can have a higher PR (which is just a way of physically representing how much authority/trust/backlinks a website has) than a .edu and vice versa. The main thing is getting links on high PR pages...don't worry about the extension.
Matt Cutts claims they're counted the same but I am skeptical. I have seen sites with virtually no links besides a few good edu links rank very well with high PR.