Jan 25th, 2007 by admin 1,645 Views
Often I am reading in the forums that having a back link from a website with an .EDU domain will increase your rankings in the search engines and that these kind of links are better than .com, .net .org … back links. An .EDU back link will increase your popularity but NOT because of it’s nature.
Google is not making any difference between a back link coming from an .EDU site, .COM site or whatever, this would make years of research useless and it would be to easy to make your site being considered important using some “tricks”. EDU domain names are usually used by universities and research institutes, that’s why they usually are considered “trusted link” by search engines and especially by Google. The point is that TLD is not making the difference, a university.EDU site would be exactly important like a university.COM site, it’s not the domain but the content that is makes the difference.
[…] 10)Don’t pay more for a link just because it is coming from an .EDU or a .GOV domain. Read more about the Mith of EDU Domains. […]
How do you know for sure?
Why should give Google more credit to sites with an .edu domain? Only because usuall edu domains are used by universities? As many webmasters I am sure that an .EDU link is not worth more (in terms of PageRank) than a normal link.
That would be “Myth”, not “Mith”. Get it right and folks are more likely to listen.
I’m really sorry for my bad english, Maggie. I corrected the error.
[…] People are going crazy to get some .EDU backlinks because websites ending in .EDU are considered trusted sites by Google. Only because they are trusted, webmasters think that a link from an .EDU page with PageRank is more valuable than a link from another page with the same PageRank. I recently wrote an article about the Myth of .EDU domains. […]
You are very right. I’ve also written a longer write-up of why .edu domains do not offer any special value. I think it pretty much backs your claims.
Hi,
But you have no reason to beleive this?
I think it is very likely Google treats these sites diff…
- William
If you can get an link from an .EDU-resource you have a good link in your pocket instant!
I just want to know if these .edu-domains are useful for my and my bussiness or not?
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