Do foreign .edu domains still give link juice?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by indyguidedotinfo, Sep 19, 2007.

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    I manged to get linked on a filipino university that has a domain that ends with .edu.ph would that still count as a university in googles eyes?

    thanks
     
    indyguidedotinfo, Sep 19, 2007 IP
  2. stOx

    stOx Notable Member

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    It will be a university in googles eyes, but they don't automatically give extra weight to a link from an edu. It just happens that a lot of edu domains do become authoritive, but that is a result of the content and links, Not the fact that it's an edu domain.
     
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    What is the PR of the page your link was placed on?
     
    catanich, Sep 20, 2007 IP
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    edu domains are usually older and more authoritative that is why they have high PR. What's the domain's PR?
     
    machinecontroller, Sep 21, 2007 IP
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    As far as I know, google does not treat ANY top level domain special. Be it edu, gov or whatever. As other posters already said, the edu domains have usually high PR because they are cited a lot all over the web (they are the most natural sources, aren't they?).

    But keep in mind that Google also keeps track of topics. So if you got a link from a page that is totally unrelated to your topic (and your other backlinks), that will probably not do many good for you.
     
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  6. indyguidedotinfo

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    PR 5 PM me if you want the link.
     
    indyguidedotinfo, Sep 21, 2007 IP
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    yeah, .edu.ph is an edu backlink for the google
     
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    If you start a page on .edu website and make it rank. Its surely going to be easier. But, if you get backlinks from it(those PR0 ones) it wont have much weightage.

    Surely, people use .edu backlinks to show off the increase in there Page Strength(seomoz.org tool) etc.

    But it doesnt really effect that much.
     
    RoyalSeo, Sep 23, 2007 IP