links from institutional website like ac.uk (British university)

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by illumintai, Dec 17, 2008.

  1. #1
    just wondering what the quality would be ?

    how do the search engines regard this ?

    thanks
     
    illumintai, Dec 17, 2008 IP
  2. michael_nguyen

    michael_nguyen Active Member

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    #2
    I don't know the correct answer to this but is your website relevent to it ?
    if not then its no point because you should be linking to relevent websites
    but by all means try it and let us know your results :D
     
    michael_nguyen, Dec 17, 2008 IP
  3. coated

    coated Peon

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    Most discussion seems to be around edu and gov sites...but if a site is an authority site and you are getting a link, I wouldn't think twice because google likes authority sites.
     
    coated, Dec 17, 2008 IP
  4. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    ac.uk is just like .edu backlinks and edu backlinks dont count anymore than regular TLD backlinks
     
    sultanofseo, Dec 17, 2008 IP
  5. LinkbuildingServices

    LinkbuildingServices Banned

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    I reckon they'd be regarded as good quality. Keep 'em on topic though!
     
    LinkbuildingServices, Dec 18, 2008 IP
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    There is a similar question about a .edu.au TLD link in this forum right now, but in case anyone missed that answer, I'll repeat it here:

    Foreign (maybe I should say non-U.S.) TLD's help you rank in google searches in the same TLD. For example, the .ac.uk link is probably a pretty good link, but it will help you far more in a google.co.uk search than a google.com search.

    Remember that people all over the world use google.com, but many will use their own country's TLD google to help return geographically relevant results.

    To answer your question specifically, illuminati, the link may or may not be valuable depending on the site, but it certainly can do no harm whatsoever.
     
    mauik, Dec 18, 2008 IP
  7. Oberon

    Oberon Well-Known Member

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    I have had the good fortune of obtaining one-way inbound links from .ac.uk websites. It's difficult to say how much boost it gave me, but consider this: Google knows that .ac.uk is the British equivalent of .edu - if, on top of that, it's one-way, the editorial endorsement value of these links is huge.

    Well worth pursuing.
     
    Oberon, Apr 8, 2009 IP
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    enous Well-Known Member

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    edu links are better than common links :)
     
    enous, Apr 8, 2009 IP
  9. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    and what would be your logic for thinking so? somehow Matt Cutts doesn't seem to agree with you
     
    sultanofseo, Apr 8, 2009 IP