hi, Some .info domain sites asking for a link exchange, most of them have PR 0 and some have PR 3, i dont mind to exchanging links with PR 0 sites, because that sites have some good contents....is there any value for a backlink from .info sites in google, i am confused with it...please help Vinodkv
the domain extension doesn't really relate. A link is a link, if there isn't any extra tags on the link like nofollow, then google will still read it as a link.
oh ok, i thought .info dont have any value, because it was selling for less price, so i thought there is less value also in google algorithms
All have the same value. Although there was a rumour going around the SEO circle years ago about .edu .gov and .mil naturally having more authority based on extension only, but it got shown to be untrue after testing.
Well, a PR0 have value too, especially is the website owner is building links for his site and the content is good and related..
It was on Seochat forums in 03-04 so finding it may be quite difficult as i obviously don't remember the thread title after so long. It involved registering some virgin .coms and applying different backlinks from .gov and .edu domains as well as .coms, also making virgin .gov and .edu PR0 pages and providing a backlink to the fresh .coms Basically the result showed there was no noticable difference in SERP or PR between the .gov and .edu and .mil domains compared to a .com .net or .org The illusion really comes from these .gov etc domains naturally being an authority site, so they hold more weight because of the website itself and not because of domain extension.
Link is a link domain extension doesnt matter in it... if content is good and site is related to yours than it can be done without pr or with pr...
It doesn't matter. You should be worried if you get a big number of (not so related) links from a local country domain because Google might boost you in local Google and you'll decrease in google.com. For example if most of your links come from .de (German) domains you might experience a decrease in google.com and boost in google.de
As what has been mentioned by the above posters, a relevant and quality link is what we need. Domain extension will not matter
I think .info domains Google consider as Spammy. because, If you see online spammer sites most of the domains in .info Cheers,
A link is a link, no matter of their extensions or they are nofollow/dofollow. The only matter is their rank. Darn, don't see the post date!