Custom .EDU Student Page W/ Content, Tags, etc

I am just trying to guage the interest in a custom page that will be linked to a University (USC) student page. Here are the specifics:

1. 9 month period

2. You select meta tags...i.e. title, description, keywords

3. Original content (around 300 words)

4. Up to 4 links within the content

5. URL would look something like this: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~StudentName/YourPage.html


So...how much would you pay?

 

none... I bet some will pay $50 or more.

 

why aren't you willing to pay? i'm curious too.

 

Cuz he'd prefer that you pay $12 for a link on his word cloud directory.

 

that's a useless answer. is that true coolsitez? if it is you deserve a red.

i have an unused PR4 student page too, so i'm interested in the potential market for it.

 

How long will your student page be up for? The problem with our student pages is that they are deleted 6 months after a student graduates. Mine has been deleted a while back but my buddy is graduating in May/June so we have till about December.

 

well i'm a freshman so it's going to be there for quite awhile. i haven't really loooked into it yet, i just read about using a student page to link to your main website a few days back and thought it was quite interesting.

i chekced my friend's page, it has a PR4.

 

how did you guys get a page like that? my school doesn't offer it.

 

Well,

Tyler Banfield has made a huge success out of doing exactly this. He does it for only $50 and you get a great deal for that. If you can do the same I will buy it. Here is what Tyler offers.

Col

 

I would like to pay $20 if the page will be indexed by google

 

wow. i just noticed that whatever personal page created on my uni server gets a PR4.

so now for the serious question: how much are people willing to pay? is tyler charging a one-time fee or monthly?

 

Yeah, and my gmail account shows PR7. That doesn't mean its real.
The toolbar gets confused with query strings and I guess it gets confused with ~username/

 

No it's not confused. Those pages are linked to a directory of student sites...all with PR. The top level of my school directory page is a PR6 and each subsequent page is about 1 less.

 

I have a pr7 student page (.edu of course) because of an article/blog post and I'm wondering what the going rate is.

Please don't PM me about buying a link. I am not here to spam my student page.

 

first of all, your assumption is wrong. I don't think I PMed him/her to advertise my site. Why makes you think that??

devin, do you even know that I had such an intention to sell a link to you? Possibly you shouldn't know my site even??

Just because I didn't agree with you (the thread owner), you shouldn't take it persoanlly...

here is a link
to answer folks' question on .edu site and its link.

At the end of the video, Matt Cutts tells you that Google doesn't treat specially .edu site for no reason.

I guess some folks have missed it. This myth should die already. .edu sites are not supposed to sell links. This is like Black SEO for the sellers. You can get in trouble. I don't recommend this.

 

Selling links on an .edu page is no black hat SEO!

You are right when you say .edu domains are treated just the same as any other domain. I never understood why people thought that.

 

I would much rather buy a link from an existing page with pagerank than have someone create one on the fly. It takes time for a new page to get pagerank and with a new page I have no idea what kind of pagerank the page will eventually have.

However, I like the general idea of buying links from .edu student pages.

And paying $50 for 9-months (or $5.55 per month, right?) is a good deal regardless of the PR but the page can't be stranded by itself. It's got to be crawlable, no more than 2-tier from the homepage, with no more than 20 outgoing links per page.

Well, he does say that edu's tend to have some really strong quality links from various sites. I wonder how much of an impact all those links to the domain will have on a new page like this.

I personally only buy links to build up my PR for leverage in link exchange requests anyway but I would like to do some experimenting with edu's.

 

Are .edu considered the same as ac.uk?

 

It was a joke...not an assumption.

Regardless of whether or not .edu pages carry more weight, here is a fact:

I created a student page, did absolutely NO link building, and it went to a PR3. Why? Well because it is linked to the PR6 student directory page (which alphabetically lists students by name).

.EDU links have a number of benefits...none of which include carrying more weight:

1. The site will not be sold

2. The person purchasing links can feel confident that their individual page will attain PR...regardless of how much the seller promotes the site.

3. The site has been and will be around for quite a while.


In regards to your comment about link sales on an edu site...that is up to the seller of the links and it is not black hat SEO. If selling links on a personal .edu page is considered wrong, what makes link sales on a word cloud site site any different? A directory is one thing, at least they offer custom descriptions at the very least. How much value is placed on a site whose code is 98% href's?

 

also, the reason why .edu student pages are wanted is because they are just like any other PR-ed pages. it's the same as buying links on a PR4 page. it just happens to be a .edu page. and yes, it is crawlable.