what is the importance of edu backlinks? if a edu domain has PR 2, is it also important with respect to SEO?
Many people says, backlinks from edu and gov are more trusted by Google. Edu and gov website is considered the authority site by Google, so its value is more than the other types of backlinks. but I still doubt about it.
Yeah, if you get a few edu domains with a PR of 2 linking to your sites it will boost your sites rankings. Thus increasing your positioning in the SERPS. There are a lot of different opinions about if .edu and .gov high PR links are more powerful than standard .com's with high PR. My personal belief is that they do do more for you than .come ect would even if they carry no PR.
@hherro - It is true. At least from the experience that I have. It might not have a great impact on traffic or search rank but it will have an impact on Page rank. Typically Edu websites comes with hell a lot of edu and gov links that makes the website more trust worthy and authority. So when you get a link from even a weak section of the domain, it adds great value.
Only backlinks from home page of EDU websites are worth but if you are talking about sub-pages of an edu forum then it's another case which we can't call as " getting high pr edu links". However still it will give you more seo juice than a normal forum anchor text link.
.edu is actually given by Google more importance because it is assumed that this types of website give more accurate information compared to others..
g trusts .edu sites a lot more since education sites are more valuable and not about the almighty dollar
i been building links with lots of .edu links for years and i really haven't seen much of a difference.
I think the theory is that .EDUs are handled by EDUCase on a manual basis and you have to be a purchasing agent for an accredited US university to get one, so right there its not going to be a spam blog farm and are more rare. This may be true but is probably more speculation, I think the real reason is the authority of the individual site rather than the fact that the TLD is .edu The real reason, IMO, that they have so much value though is that in generally they are simply higher authority sites. I mean what do you think is a more trusted source of information, Harvard.edu or donkey-likes-goat.info?
The best method to get links from edu and gov site are create your profile and links your website from your profile.
i think it is so nice to get the backlinks from edusites, it will give a big value on SERP for our site.
Google by default gives importance to sites that are .edu or .gov because they are authority sites and have original content of the goverment. If you get a link from any of such sites then Google will crawl the link come back to your site and give your site importance as well. So if you do have a link from such a site then it would really help.
There isn't actually any evidence to suggest that .edu or .gov backlinks are valued higher than any other TLD. The only advantage is that these domains are crawled more regularly so there's mroe chance of your link getting seen quicker. However if it's a profile link, you still may need to do some 2nd tier linking to actually get it indexed.
It is right! I can see one of my sites listed on a site gov PR7 then my site got a very good ranking!