Hey guys, yesterday I found this website called http://is.edu. They give away .EDU blogs but when I contacted them they said they charge $297 for each new registration which I think is more than reasonable. WHen you sign up you get your own sub-domain like 'yourname.is.edu', a Wordpress blog and unlimited GBs of storage. For all of you who constantly are out buying links, especially .edu for high authority links, then I suggest you make your own blog, create your own content on it and link back to your 'own personal blog' for some super love from Google.
A link from an EDU's carries no more weight than any other link. Most EDU's have a quality backlinks and a high level of trust - which makes the link have more weight, not the .edu. This particular site has low PR, isn't an authority site, and your sub-domain would be an orphan page - so it would have no PR, no authority value whatsoever for SEO purposes. It would be a complete waste of money.
Oh ok, I just thought that it would help because someone said to me the other day that .edu sites are more 'trusted' since not everyone can get them.
There are other ways to get an EDU blog for less than $300. Once upon a time those is.edu blogs were free, I actually lost one of the edu blogs that I was running when is.edu revamped their business model.... Finally there are edu blogs out there that you can register with any old email address (no edu email address required) or with a little know-how and moxie..one that up to recently was that way was Southern Utah University. If you built your blog there before last week you were on a PR6 domain as opposed to Is.edu which is a PR2....so for $300 bucks pay someone to scour the internet...you'll end up with more than one edu address on higher PR domains. Just my 2 cents.