I just thought about this... What if you made www.yourdomain.edu.com - do you think Google will treat it like a "real" .edu site?
As far as I am aware this is not possible. You would have to register something like domain-edu.com Good luck with that though
In order to do yourdomain.edu.com you'd have to already own edu.com. something dot domain is a sub domain
And even if you DID own edu.com, it would NOT be considered an EDU site because it has a .com TLD. EDU and GOV sites have special requirements to registrar. The average "Joe" cannot register one.
Okay guys, thanks for replies It was just a crazy thought that's all. I wonder if there's any way at all you can register .edu domains IT would be good to be able to slip someone a golden handshake to make a domain like that, and then plant a paid directory on it!
.edu and .gov links are really worth no more from an SEO perspective than a link from an equivalent .com, .net, .org, etc. There is nothing special about them except that .edu and .gov sites USED to be the sites on the web w/ much higher PR because they were well linked. Because they often had high PR, they were often sought out as a source for a link. A small percentage of .edu and .gov sites might carry a little more domain trust than the typical .com if they are very old sites, but other than that there is really no difference in .edu, .gov, .com, .net, .org, etc.
Why does almost every SEO tool out there treat .edu and .gov backlink separately from all others? Are they just behind?