Hi im enrolled in college and currently own some webspace for a .edu site. My question is how much could I sell a one-way text link from my .edu webspace considering they are so important/rare for SEO purposes. The page itself has no pagerank but is indexed by Google by the way. Thanks
500 bucks. No seriously, I wouldn't pay a cent for a link on some dudes university.edu/~randomdude/ homepage if it has no rank. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Your joking right? Look at some of the most competitive/lucrative serps such as this one on Google, full of .edu/.org "random dude" pages. Google is giving these TLD's massive trust so mixing a few in your linking campaign will have a serious effect on your rankings...in Google id say trustrank is more important than PR right now, IMHO
Not really. Yeah there is actually a debate about this. Some say it does, some say it doesn't. However Google is not stupid and I am convinced that they can see what is a personal homepage and what is not. I would defenitely go for a .edu link, just not /~hankhill (if PR0) Well, put up your site and go to the link sales forum. Post there and I am sure you will make a couple of bucks. If I were you, I'd get some backlinks first to give your hp some rank. Gives you a better position to negotiate for price. I wouldn't pay for a PR0 page but I would pay big bucks for a PR7 /~hankhill link. Consider this. Hank Hill can study at university.edu, big deal. Why should google trust what Hank Hill has to say? Google will however trust what university.edu/somecoolsite.html has to say. Also you have to be very careful. I bet its against the ToS of your university. So if you pi55 off some buyer, he might contact your admin (yes, its always good to be paranoid).
Gixer, if you look at some of the pages in your google search... the pages have been removed from the edu's domain... probably as Andre suggested... for conflicting with ToS. I would wonder whether google filters out individual user pages to some degree... I'm sure that it would be easy for them... essentially, they are on an academic domain, but not necessarily academics.
I'm one to question the value of personal pages on .edu domains. I believe they don't have as much value as some would like to think.
I'm pretty sure that anything after the ~ is treated the same as any other link, there's no 'trust' that google would give to a true .edu or .gov link.
It depends whether your homepage is linked to from the main site. if its just a satellite page with no internal links pointing to it then it is not worth anything.
Quit trying to make $50 selling links. Put some viagra/affiliate/MFA crap on your page, point 50,000 links to it and you will make $10k per day.
i would suggest you build up your own rank first. Then once you have a pagerank you could sell it for quite a bit! $300+
Well, guess there is a value for it... rzvagelsky, you just bought a keg for this guy and his friends. Let us know where the party is going to be gixxer...
I have seen homepages of subdomains at stanford and harvard of longtime faculty members, not students, have no PR show up at all. BUT, they have value in that people actually read those pages. If the faculty member has tenure, so much the better. .
The only bonus .edu domains get is a shorter or nonexistent sandbox time. Build up PR, as you'll have a slightly easier time doing it than anyone else, and then you might get some serious buyers. Kthx.