I have access to an edu domain page where I can create a link to my site. The edu page doesn't have a pagerank or anything. My question is what is the advantage of having an edu link, will having this edu link help seeing as it has no pagerank etc. Thanks
there is a lot of debate about this still about .edu domains possibly having more authority than non .edu
The reason is that .edu and .gov links are owned by "trusted" people, that qualify for them. And the amount of .edu and .gov sites out there is very limited compared to the rest of the TLD's.
The same question is tickling in my mind Is there anybody who can give some .edu URLs from where I can the quality links...Please help me out
It is supposed to be trusted and show authority by search engines. This is supposedly the case at present. I think these will be an avenue closed in the not too distant future. If you can create a link on a edu domain then should still take the opportunity to do this.
Check my sig. .EDU links don't hold as much weight as they use to but it doesnt harm your link building campaign at all
hello, I believe that .edu links is like a backway to high PR. It will provide you with positive PR from the .edu sites. Have in mind that you should always research first for the site it self and find an ethical way to promote. regards
.Edu and .Gov links used to be valued a lot by search engines, because they are high authority websites. Links from these websites suggested they must be of some importance. But then webmasters use this to their advantage, forums begin getting spammed, blogs too. Thus, search engines began living less importance to these backlinks, but only to an extent. I would assume a backlink from a .edu domain is still a lot more effective than a regular one.
I know that there is no tld issues regarding SEO, but it is better to have .com or .net tlds for you to get more traffic because it is easy to memorize.
well the idea behind having .com or .edu is that there is a big difference in their weight. for example maybe you need to have 50 average .coms and maybe only 1 or 2 good .edus. (bear in mind that this is only for presentational purposes). regards
Sorry, but I have to call bullshit (and those who know me know I don't swear online unless it's justified) on this. .edu and .gov TLDs have no more weight or authority than any other TLD. Period. End of story. It's the content on the sites with these TLDs that tends to get the "authority" "trust" and "weight" not the TLD itself.
I agree with you up to some point, not with the swearing thou. The content does matter, but the fact that it's .edu already has more weight. Furthermore, the difference between a good and an excellent .edu is the content. At the end of the day, where will you find better and more supported content than in a .edu site. regards
The fact that it's a .edu has no weight, except in the public perception. It's like .com TLDs being easier to remember (and thus more valuable to people looking to register a domain name). People just tend to associate .edu TLDs with quality information. Search engines on the other hand, do NOT make this distinction. A TLD to them is just a TLD. It's what's on the page being indexed that matters. Oh, and most pages on .edu sites are just user-generated pages with no real content or value anyway.
Personally I don't think .edu hold any extra weight. I'm pretty sure Matt Cutts has spoken about this as well. Adison.edu only has a rank of 4, for example (as we all know it's not really a school.)
I agree, and not to mention .edu sites sites typically are updated a lot less than other TLD (because blogs, news sources, etc typically are not .edu)