Since it is known that .gov and .edu links are "worth" a lot from search engines, because they are not available to the general public and they are established sites. It is hard to get links like these naturally, or by asking for them, so the way I have found is to put them there yourself. Some .gov and .edu sites have forums, and I have found that most of them allow signatures. I have found .gov and .edu forums by searching on Google, ".edu forums" and ".gov forums". I didn't get many forums that way, but I got some, and those links are still there today and they are valuable. Another way is to just search ".edu" and go down the list (starting after the schools) trying to find the ones with forums. It's hard, but it pays off
From what I have read, .edu and .gov are worth more. At first I didn't believe it, but I read it in one or two other places so now I assume that it has some truth.
I Have heard that said that .edu & .gov carry a little more weight than your average link Saying that I find it hard to belive a .edu or .gov forum sig or profile would carry any more weight than any other forum the search engines aint stupid A link on a regular page I can see to a degree Just for the record I went & checked out the .edu forums dint fimd one single one that had been indexed you may want to check the forums you got in are getting indexed
Is this from a reliable source though? Matt Cutts stated that there is no boost given by .edu/.gov links but that was Google.
It is great that you have found these kind of forums. the problem is that you should have not told the whole world. Now most of them will not be any good once the spammers get a hold of them and once that happens you can bet that those forum will be shut down, or the ability to add links will be removed.
Then you could also say that country domains are worth more than throwaway .com's etc. Sure u will get more importance for ur site if you get links from authority sites.
Country domains are surely worth more than .com domains nowadays (if your target market is your own country) Hosting in your own country is surely worth more than hosting in some other country nowadays (if your target market is your own country)
Even if your home country isn't your target market, it still sometimes makes sense to have a country domain.
I don't follow Matt's blog (isn't he a Google engineer or something?) but if he says .edu and .gov links don't help I believe him. Why would he lie?
Ok. Think of it this way guys. Matt cutts said they don't have a bonus, just because they are .edu and .gov. What he didn't say, is that since they are .edu and .gov sites, chances are they are of great importance, and will have a high amount of backlinks and 'status', which DOES make them give more 'link juice' to the sites they link to. So no, they aren't better just because they are are .edu or .gov, but they are better in the sense that most .edu and .gov sites are of high importance and have a lot of back links. Hope that makes sense to you guys, cheers. As for searching for forums to put links on, ill stick to the black hat ways of XSS exploits.
I do everything depending on the domain / situation. You saying thats not very good shows the only black hat you probably know of is stuff like hidden text, and thats ok, but thats not the kind of stuff I consider black hat (thats dumb hat ;p) XSS = Cross Site Scripting.
Ahh. Yes, the only black hat I know of is spam linking and hidden keyword text. I'll PM you to learn the "good black hat" way you are using, I'm curious.
I replied. Although I would never use a black hat technique, on any website where I was going for longterm organic search results, except maybe 2.0 spam.