What do I need to type into Google to get a search going for student's webpages that are hosted under their university's .edu server? Also, how are you guys getting backlinks from .edu sites?
I can link from mine to a site if I wanted, I know there is a PR plus if you have .edu links, but If the page is a pr0 .edu page, that is like having a pr3-pr4 normal page right? On that note, I don't link from my student webpage. As for the second question, most schools have a directory.
EDU links don't have any inherent advantage over other links its just that oftentimes EDU sites have higher PR and thus links from them are more desirable (especially if the link is from one of the official pages opposed to a student page). I personally tend to attract a lot of back links to my environmental chemistry site from EDU sites (especially official chemistry department pages).
I'm not looking for the PR. Just the "trustrank" issue. It looks good on the SEOMOZ page strength tool as well
Any examples you can share regarding the school's directory? I dunno what to even look for. Maybe I can start emailing these starving young college geeks. PS why don't you link from your student page? Even to a site like mine? If you're interested just PM me.
Eh.. what would you pay for that? I love my school so I can't allow it to get spammed. But I don't care much for our rivals! All of our schools are in the USG (University System Of Georgia - The "premier" and "best of the best" in GA). We all run off of the same system, which is why we all share the same flaw. It is so easy to harvest our entire school systems student campus emails in one go because of the listing we have. I would have to disagree with that. .edu and .gov links have an extre pr boost in Google because they have authority.
Authority has absolutely nothing to do with giving more Page Rank. Each page, regardless of what type of site, can pass 85% of its PR divided between the number of outgoing links on the page. Google has also stated that edu, DMOZ, etc., pass no more PR than any other type of link. You are confusing Page Rank with authority sites giving a boost to SERPS.
lordmenace: you some sorta teacher's pet? j/k I wouldn't pay much. Notice how I said "starving young college geeks".
Don't those go hand in hand? Doesn't PR increase serps? Doesn't links form authority sites increas serps as well? I always thought it did. I'm not trying to start a huge debate because I'm not sure, but I doubt Google would tell 100% when it comes to its algo for PR. No. I just like my school and I hate spam e-mail. XD
You could do a search exclusively for finding .edu links with specific content by doing a advanced search and the keywords you want to use to find the pages in question you are looking for. You just need to be creative in finding the right content by using various keywords such as student groups and so on.... Then you can also gain more information to build .edu links by contacting the person responsible for the content. Good luck!
No, that is a huge misconception. Google likes relevant backlinks from authority sites. Authority sites usually have high PR and will pass PR like any other backlink, so the two often goes hand in hand - but it's the relevant backlink, not the PR that will help your rankings. Paying for a high PR link from a non-sector related site is throwing your money away if you think it will give any boost to rankings. Many industry experts (including the person who runs ASK search) think google completely abandoned factoring in PR for SERPS sometime ago - but in any event, relevant and non-relevant links pass the same amount of PR (everything else being equal).
Only relevant backlinks can boost your rankings, PR doesn't matter . You get PR with quantity, and rankings with quality backlinks.
I beleive he was looking for student webpages, because he knows it's almost impossible for a college web admin to post a link to an outside source unless it was HIGHLT relevant. My school doesn't even link to google OR fastweb
His question was: I believe i answered his question perfectly don't you think? Student webpages under the university's .edu server... would he not mean by that that he is searching for student webpages with the .edu extension? I think he does. If it's possible to acquire the links in the first place is another matter. I gave him the insight to use Google to his advantage to find the information he was looking for. I'm not sure what your point is