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I can answer your question now, no they don't give prominence. All domains carry the same weighting but it is how you promote them. The reason that .edu or .info domains seem to have higher PR's is because they are normally attached to sites that house a wealth of information i. colleagues and universities and as such they are constantly updated with lots of information. It's not the domain that matters it's the way you promote it. Just keep building the back links
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I think the same way. Search Google for "wallabies" in either .com, .com.au, .co.uk or .me and rugby.com.au will be in the top 2-3 results, because it is one of the most relevant results.

The only time it will not be in the top results is if you do a search from (for example) .co.uk and click the radio button that say's "pages from the UK".

So as lightlysalted pointed out, "It's not the domain that matters it's the way you promote it."

The only "official" statement I can recall that mentions domain extensions, was Google Q&A's 3rd live chat Oct 2008.

TylerDee, TX: Are .gov and .edu back links still considered more "link juice" than the common back link?

Matt Cutts: This is a common misconception--you don't get any PageRank boost from having an .edu link or .gov link automatically... If you get an .edu link and no one is linking to that .edu page, you're not going to get any PageRank at all because that .edu page doesn't have any PageRank.

JohnMu: We generally treat all links the same - be it from .gov or .edu or .info sites.
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Hope that helps.

Cheers
James

tattoos, Aug 11, 2009 IP

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