How much are .edu links worth?

I was offered a link on an .edu site, but it is new and has no page rank yet. What's a 1 year link on a PR0 edu site worth?

 

Must not be more than $1. I am sure that you are talking about a Profile Backlink on an EDU forum.

Thanks,
Sarah

 

No, not a forum - it would be on the home page, or on all pages, my choice.

 

If I were you, I would grab the chance to put a link there....with or without PR.

 

I definitely want to do it, I'm just trying to figure out how much I should pay for it?

 

What is the page rank of the domain? The "website" could be new, but how powerful is the domain?

 

PR0, its a fairly new domain and Google hasn't updated PR in a long time.

 

If it's cheap now, depending on the specific .edu.....it probably won't be a PR 0 link for long. Give it a shot, what's the worse thing that can happen?

 

Unfortunately the power of an EDU domain does not stem from being an EDU domain....it is derived from trust and age. As a PR0 it looks like your EDU site doesn't have either one of these. Much like the people that are peddling Polish EDU domains on here....buyer beware as these sites will not give you much of an SEO bump at all for a very long time if ever...they are more of an online novelty.

The best thing I can say is that it will be slightly easier to get forum/blog owners to look the other way if you decide to spam...

Anyways good luck

 

Why aren't Polish EDU domains any good? What do they look like? edu.po or something?

 

An .edu domain carries no more weight than a .com, .net, .org or yes, even a .info . Its an urban legend with no basis in fact. The value of a back link depends on the pages quality, content and relevance not domain extension.

 

Have you ever tested that?

 

I would like to share this link about how Google treats .edu domains. Hope this helps

 

I do not buy a links on .edu domain because people offer it very costly. It is better to find more links on other websites relevant to your business niche rather than one link from .edu which is not relevant...

 

I have several organic .edu back links to one of my travel sites, they have brought me only a handful of hits and nothing different in the serps. So yes... thoroughly tested.

 

That's not really a thorough test You need to get two equal sites, add a .edu link to one and an equivalent .com to the other and compare the effect. We've done this and the results were not conclusive. I was wondering if anyone else had done this and would share their results. Currently I still favour .edu links over .com and others.

 

I have a site that is a solid first result on Google search (granted with only 150,000 other pages) and it only is receiving (1) PR6 and (2) PR5 Edu links. While I have other sites that have thousands of links from various sources (more quantity and less quality but with high PR com's mixed in as well)....and they bounce around all over the place.

So my thinking is....its not only the fact that they are EDU...its that the EDU blogs I created provide me a high PR low OBL do-follow in content link. So while a "real" edu may give you a slight bump over an com, net....not all edu's are equal....so you have to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

 

Polish edu domains have the suffix..... edu.pl

A brand new EDU site be it EDU, EDU.PL or EDU.CN......is not going to help you SEO wise unless you devote a lot of time developing it. There is no real magic to just being an EDU....the power of an edu comes from the history and authority of the domain....and thus a brand new site will not have any authority much less history.

So while it is cool to have your very own EDU.PL domain, its just a novelty unless you really want to put a lot work into it and eventually it may become asset.

 

So my short answer to your question.... 5 bucks max (IMO).

 

Google has a love relationship with anything edu, it may be low now, but it will rise.