.EDU Links - Are they really Nitro Boosters?

Or its just a hype? I am seeing a few people selling .edu links for reasonable deals. Question is do the .edu links seriously boost your website up in ranking when it is searched on the keywords? Are they considered to be crucial for seo purposes? Any one who has experience about this?

Your feedback is much appreciated.

 

A link is a link. I have seen evidence that Google gives a bit more PR weight to .edu/.gov/etc sites, so if there is a relevant .edu page with decent PR, a link would be valuable. But some random student with a random webpage full of links would probably not be too beneficial - but check the PR .

If you're asking if 1 or 2 .edu links immediately = improved SERPs ranking, the answer is "only a bit more than links from similar PR pages", unless your keywords are extremely niche with little competition.

Crucial? No. Helpful? Yes, if they are relevant.

 

That was the answer I was looking for. Highly appreciated.

 

.edu usually have aged domains, more backlinks adn higher PR so are usually good backlinks. I think they're good backlinks because of the above aspects, not because they have the extension .edu.

 

An .edu link with a hign PR make more than 1000 regular BL`s

 

Not if the normal backlinks also have high PR...then they're equally weighted.

 

I agree, but most of .edu links are older doamins with higher PR and considered trusted sites by Mr. Google

 

.edu and .gov are more trusted links, its just alot harder to find blogs for .gov sites

And yes they do help out alot.

 

Yea, exactly what i mean in my post

 

So a .edu link with a 0 PR actually is same that of a normal .com with 0 PR?

 

well i have seen some links with pr0 from a .edu website which are highly ranking for there keywords.

 

i dont think so , they have wrtten in thier websites that tld are not favored

 

If EVERYTHING is the same (relevancy, pr, anchor, etc) an .edu link will be more beneficial from .com

They? You mean Google, Yahoo, MSN, and friends? Well, of course they would write that. However, the reality on the field, several extensions are favored.

 

To put it simple, .edu websites generally dont link outside so their links are valuable, but imagine the day is not too far when google will go ahead and give lesser value to those links too

 

I think this is the best answer

Emphasis on most

 

the link from .edu/.gov really help to increase PR of your page. It is always recommended to have few .edu link than lots of .com links.