Hi fellow marketers, I have been working on the SEO of one of my sites and I built about 30 .edu backlinks in about a week. Now when I check them I see that about half of them are gone(deleted by admins). So, am I doing something wrong or building .edu backlinks is nothing but a waste of time. Notes: I saw some short term boost in my rankings for a few days. My comments were all related to the posts, not simply spams such as "nice share, great post,...". But I guess edu blog owners do not look at the comment, they filter comments by looking at the URL of the comment. And once they spot a marketing-oriented blog they simply delete it. I guess, it will be better to find non-active auto-approve edu blogs. If you have experience with edu backlinks, please share your ideas. Thanks.
to me edu backlinks are a waste of time. They do not give more link juice because they are .edu, but generaly the quality of the site is better on .edu, so i dont waste time chasing .edu links, i just build links.
Right now there are so many .edu domains which are no longer reputable, many are now viagra websites with .edu. Matt Cutt himself said that backlinks coming from .edu is no longer as powerful as it was before, read this interesting article http : //anyone-can-earn.com/blog/2009/12/matt-cutts-clears-some-seo-myths/
You're not building backlinks. You're spamming, The fact that half of them got removed is clear evidence of that - they were unwelcome. This is why so much SEO has such a bad reputation - a backlink strategy should never be built on foisting links on sites that don't want them.
Edu links are not valued any higher than normal links, they just often have higher PR pages. If google does coutn them higher it is only by about 5% than any other page so it is worthless chasing. Also, your comments got disapproved because your URL is unrelated to the article.
EDU link and GOV are always useful back links, it generated beyond just pagerank , for those links are reference links that you can get credibility and also traffic from that as well , but you need to develop it beyond just normal listing.
I agree with you to some extent. However, most of the non-edu blogs allow backlinks to whatever site it is if the comment is related to the post, not just simple spam. So, what I mentioned was, in my experience edu blog owners do not look at the contribution, they just judge the comment according to its URL. I can say that because in some of the blogs, all the comments(including other people's) were removed no matter how related it was. And, by the way, could you please share with us what a good backlink strategy is? That is highly possible. My Conclusion: Edu backlinks(not natural ones) may give a short term gain but it is a waste of time in the long term.