How to get .edu sites?

[minstrel]

Originally Posted by antonaf

That's right. Having a .edu domain does not guarantee any special ranking, but the links to and from .edu domains have historically been highly relevant and quality, additionally more people will link to .edu domains because its a reliable source for most.

That may be true for www.someuniversity.edu but it isn't true for some student account at www.someuniversity.edu/students/~somestudent/.

[Zombie]

I suppose earlier the .edu or .gov sites had a better effect of their out-bound links on other sites but now due to heavy spamming on these sites also have lessened the effectiveness of the same in the view of the search engines. So a backlink now from a .edu or .gov or any other tld will have the same weightage.

[minstrel]

Originally Posted by adisonedu

.gov & .edu links are far from dead. For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=link%...006-36,GGGL:en - Digits.com - there are 5 out of the first 11 links are .edu and google lists links by owh has the highest rank also.

So this pr8 with 374,000 links and the most powerful links are from .edu sites proves that .edu links are powerful.

At this point we are developing .edu sites and most of them have directories. http://www.adison.edu and http://www.nassonu.edu have donation based linking abilities.

Come see how powerful .gov & .edu links really are…

Most of the people I see praising .edu links are just ignorant and misinformed. The others are like you - scamming the misinformned and ignorant trying to squeeze money out of them.

Your adison.edu domain has NO SPECIAL STATUS because of its TLD. It has no more value than any other TLD. A link from a page on your site is worth no more than a link from any other pahe with equivalent PageRank and content.

You are a scammer preying on ignorance.

See also my previous posts above:

Originally Posted by minstrel

http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/archiv...rum_finds.html

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-article-in-newsweek

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...37348670651505

I’m on debunking duty

Originally Posted by minstrel

I told you what I think (and what anyone who can read should think) in the post right above yours. Those who are selling .edu links are either morons or scammers. Those who are buying them are either morons or just ill-informed.

Originally Posted by minstrel

That may be true for www.someuniversity.edu but it isn't true for some student account at www.someuniversity.edu/students/~somestudent/.