I was doing a little backlink check on an old site of mine and found that they had a .gov link coming in. Interesting. It was simply a link from the .gov site that did a redirect and the page was essentially a disclaimer page. The programmer of the .gov site built a real simple page and created it dynamically from a site variable in the URL. When I saw this I wondered if you could pass any site in the URL to have this dynamic page build. It worked. In a sense, there is this page at this .gov site that I can build with a link to whatever site I choose. You might say that there isn't any value in the link since it won't be found. Well, a couple of links to that page will likely get it noticed. Is there any value there? The server header check returns a 200. It then does a redirect to the site listed on the page (and in the URL). The redirect is done with a meta refresh on a 4 second delay. Thoughts? boblaw
I do not think it would be good for any Pr. If you start adding links i would think they will see the traffic to the page and remove them.
gov and edu backlinks adds link popularity to your sites...even o pr links do....u'll see in the link sales forum here in dp many students who have blog on their university site .edu they offer cheap blogposts at those .edu blogs...and get many many responses. Again if it shows as a link in link checkers then u can add any....
edu and gov links are considered better than other by Search Engines.A link from them is more valuable than others.
The actual ending makes no difference. The value of a gov or edu link is more the links they themselves have pointing inwards. They are almost nay on impossible to purchase a www.xxx.gov domain name Typically edu and govs have really trused people linking to them, and of course tend to naturally aquire more links with no seo
Wrong point of view, TrustRank is based on human selected trusted TLDs(gov, edu, mil) and some other websites(dmoz, dir.yahoo.com, etc..).
Its called cross scripting and considered black hat, your site can be deindexed in Google of they see that you use cross scripting, be careful. But no link would point to the .gov page where your link is, so its no use anyway.
It could happen. One person can easily approve 500 trusted sites a day, but it can be done automaticly also.
I can see that it wouldn't be likely to pass value, but wouldn't it be rather simple to remove your competition from the Google index if it caused you to be "deindexed"? I find it difficult to believe that it would cause a site to be delisted. But hey, stranger things... boblaw
I will moderate myself a bit. If the site linked to is a MFA site they can ban it if you see that you are using cross scripting.
From what I heard they use to be weighed more heavily on it but because of spamming issue the big G has put less weight on it now